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“The Secret of Monkey Island” on GOG Playing the game If you want the updated version, you can get it on GOG. “The Secret of Monkey Island” on the Internet Archive You can also play in the browser via Internet Archive. An updated version was released in 2009, but it was never released on Linux, and macOS/iOS versions are no longer working. Just download the emulator, find a copy of the game, and everything runs perfectly on any system. Running this 30-year-old game is amazingly easy, thanks to SummVM. My first playthrough was sometime around the year 2002. Certainly not enough to comprehend this game. I was a kid back then, and I knew very little English. Three years later, I received my first computer - a (not so)powerful PC386. “The Secret of Monkey Island” came out right after Poland became an independent country again, and I was still in kindergarten. “Return to Monkey Island” official webpageįrankly, I played only the third one as a child, soon after release. In preparation for “Return to Monkey” Island, I have decided to replay the first three classic games. Michał Sapka's website Home About Links RSS Engineering Emacs BSD Computer History Star Trek The Secret of Monkey Island Monkey Island

Rather your memory is faulty for thinking otherwise.The Secret of Monkey Island Monkey Island Guybrush (and you, by inference) are terrible people for playing the game, and nobody likes him or you, and they probably never liked him or you. I hear the later Acts are even worse, so I just quit at that point. Murray, who was a favorite character of mine, shows up but you can't do anything with him except brutalize him.

One of the quests in Act 1 is resolved in a completely unnecessarily sad way, with guybrush basically demolishing a wildlife community and grinning in stupid satisfaction as the animals weep. There's a museum on melee where the proprietor says people who are interested in pirates are bad people, and guybrush is just like 'oh good point'. It's the whole atmosphere and the way everyone reacts to Guybrush. puzzles are extremely simple, but that's not what bothers me. Instead the first act is just guybrush, who's apparently actually an immature, egocentric jerk, wandering around melee island and its run-down, abandoned shops, clicking on things and "thinking back to better times". I was expecting some lighthearted, fun monkey island adventures.