Johnny Backlash Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 I got a PC games magazine with the first part of CMI as one of the demos on the cover CD. I didn't play the game for weeks, but one day I was curious (I'd once read a guide about SOMI in an ages old Amiga magzine) and gave it a go... I fell in love and bugged my parents about buying it - I was an annoying child - right up to the release date. Wasn't disappointed, checked the back catalogue and bought a Lucasarts retro games box set (Full Throttle, Dig, Dark Forces and the like)... finished both games... borrowed EMI from my friend and finished that. Eagerly awaiting MI5 now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Mariachi Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 I remember the day my dad came home with our first CD rom Drive. I was kinda upset because he traded in the printer to get it. I liked making "Beauty and the Beast" bookmarks with the wonderful printer.. so I was a pretty bummed out kid. He pulled out a CD bundle that had come with the drive, and put the discs on the computer desk. I looked through them and saw "Loom" and then this one game "Monkey Island". I remember playing the game and not knowing what to do - same with loom. Some time had gone by and I found the Monkey Island game again and was intrigued by the pirates and music. I went over to my grandma's house and played the game on their nicer computer.. my mom thought I was working on a book report(this was 3rd or 4th grade, mind you). My sister and I were determined to finish the game, and we did. Unfortunately, my mom came in during the part where Guybrush is getting the root from LeChuck's ship and decided that "since you were in hell it was a bad game" I told her we were almost finished with the game, and she left. Later she made my little sister and I hand the game over to her and she broke it. She promised to buy a new game.. she never did. Years passed, and I saw in an issue of PC gamer that there was to be a Monkey 4. It rekindled my memories of monkey 1 and I started longing to play all the games. I went on a mission to find the first one, and then the two that were released without my knowledge. I ended up finding Curse and Escape at Best Buy, and purchased those. Then I went on the net and found Secret and Lechuck's revenge(pirated). I've played through Secret about 10 times now, and it never gets old. The others, I've played through about 2 times each. I have the Madness pack and another Escape on order from the lucasarts store. Best Videogame ever: Secret Of Monkey Island Best Series ever: Monkey Island Best Male Character: Guybrush Threepwood, mighty pirate. Best Female Character: Elaine Marley Best undead character: Murray! One of the few games you could play in 3rd grade, and still enjoying when you're in college.. (hope I didn't bore you) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karmus Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 My dad had some floppies home from school with some of his students' games. One of the game were The Secret of Monkey Island. I got caught and bought both Amiga games, but unfortunately the reciepe disk wasn't included in MI2 so I couldn't start it. Later I downloaded MI2 from the Internet for PC. I bought MI3 and downloaded MI4 two years later. I've completed MI1, MI2 (together with a friend), but not MI3 & MI4 - lost the interest in the middle of the games. But they are the best adventure games I have ever played! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawaJoey Posted January 22, 2004 Share Posted January 22, 2004 A long time ago in a house about 15 minutes away from this one... My sister and I always played Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis. I don't know where it came from, but we played it a lot we had the hintbook too. There is one puzzle where you have three minutes of air in a diving suit and have to find Atlantis, and the Hintbook said "You're not Guybrush Threepwood, you can only hold your breath for three minutes." We didn't have a clue. Some time later, our cousin visited and we played the game with him, and he told us a story about Guybrush Threepwood. About getting captured and escaping from cannibals numerous times. We were itnerested, but the memory faded away. Many years later, I had a CD with some lucasarts demos on it, including the Curse of Monkey Island. I played it and loved it, but once again it faded into my memory. Finally in sixth grade, a freind of mind brought it up. I played a little at his house, and the memory of the demo came back to me. I replayed it, and then the memory of the story my cousin had told me so long ago rushed back. I thought it was the same game, though. I soon became obsessed with the aquisition of the game, which I did get, beat and loved. I realized it was not the same game my cousin had mentioned, and my freind told me it was the third in a series. I had beaten CMI about the time that EMI was announced. I waited in anticipation until the day it arrived, and loved it to the last drop. Then I set out on a quest for the first two, and finally experienced first hand the miraculous escape from cannibals of a pirate who could hold his breath for ten whole minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper Girl Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Originally posted by El Mariachi Unfortunately, my mom came in during the part where Guybrush is getting the root from LeChuck's ship and decided that "since you were in hell it was a bad game" I told her we were almost finished with the game, and she left. Later she made my little sister and I hand the game over to her and she broke it. She promised to buy a new game.. she never did. That really sucks . Monkey Island 1 was one of the few games my mother DID allow because it wasn't violent or corrupting me. Little did she know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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