![]() The Secret of Monkey Island is one of the videogame history milestones.įirst of all, it is the first "modern-concept" adventure game ever released. The rubber tree, the three-headed monkey, the men of low moral fibre, rubber chickens with pulleys in the middle - if any of these mean anything to you you'll know why this has to score a maximum. Monkey Island drips entertainment from every pore and frankly I can't think of a single thing wrong with it. And with the game squeezed onto a relatively svelte (for a point & clicker) four disks, even those using a standard Amiga with only one floppy drive wouldn't be overly troubled by requests for new disks (the only thing that spoiled the otherwise excellent sequel). The graphics are packed with character and atmosphere and the sound, although minimal, often raises a smile. Even once you know the solution off by heart you'll still come back occasionally simply because you want to meet Herman Toothrot, Stan, Lemonhead and the rest again. It all leads to that rarest of beasts - an adventure game with genuine replay value. Not a single joke falls flat in a script that puts to shame most comedy movies of recent years, and the characters Guybrush meets and the situations in which he finds himself are always entertaining. Ron Gilbert's classic adventure is structured brilliantly, with every puzzle being perfectly pitched in difficulty so that the game is never either overly easy or frustratingly obscure. It's not an impossible game, it's only impossible for it to ever be forgotten.Ībsolutely the best game on the Amiga. Honestly I've never known how to get past those piranha poodles, and only discovered what that rubber chicken (with a pulley in the middle) was intended for in 2000 or so, when my late lamented A500 had already started to fade away, but I'm still to renew my commitment to this game by beating it on either WinUAE or Cloanto's Amiga Forever. Such is how things were back in those days. Puzzles didn't make the game hard, they made it fascinating. Of course, this was not a game for arcade lovers: it required a bit of application and resolve, but the more difficult a puzzle was, the more rewarding the game proved to be once you got through. Its many puzzles could be solved both through logic and proceeding by trial and error. To all those who think this masterpiece can't actually be finished without some walkthrough, I will say this: I started playing it when I was only 8 (1992), and it got me so hooked I could barely stop. It revolutionised my gaming experience and nothing I have played since has matched the feeling I got when I first played it. I can't praise The Secret of Monkey Island highly enough. But if you are an adventure gamer then this can only be on the top of your list. If it isn't your cup of tea then that is fine, some of my best friends didn't particularly like it either. It was that this game provided a level of immersion that I had never experienced before in a game.Īnybody who doesn't like this game, simply can't comprehend what a true adventure game is all about. The fact that you can't actually get inside and see didn't really matter. There are bright windows in that building and I can remember wondering what was happening inside when I first played this game. There is Guybrush on the wooden bridge with a wooden building behind him. Take the third screenshot down on this page. It isn't just the incredible immersion that the storyline offers, or the quality of the graphics, or the brilliance of the music, or the unparalleled characterisation - it is the complete experience of playing it. This is quite simply the greatest game ever made for the Amiga (and most other platforms). Programmers: Dave Grossman, Tim Schafer, Ron GilbertĪdventure, fantasy, humour, magic, pirates, pointandclick, puzzleĪCE: Advanced Computer Entertainment 46 (Jul 1991) Original Music: Michael Land, Barney Jones, Andy Newell, Patrick Mundy ![]() Art: Steve Purcell, Mark Ferrari, Mike Ebert, Martin Cameron Precursor to Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge Tami Borowick, James Alexander Dollar, Bill Eaken, Avril Harrison, Ian McCaig, Jim McLeod, Michael Stemmle, Sean Turner
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