RoyTordesLegend Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Specifically the first two games (although the third was canny also). Has anyone any experiences/suggestions of games that have a similar style to the original Monkey Island games (other than other Lucasfilm/Lucasarts games)? By this I don't just mean and old point and click game....I mean games that have at least a couple of the following:- VGA graphics Similar graphical style Similar music Similar Humour Similar 'feel' Fire away you lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artisa Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 It's a little sad no one replied to this Umm.... I dunno why but I was thinking Goblins 3? You've got your main character having one initial goal, interrupted by a love interest, the graphics are obviously old school, you've got the interesting locations and a satisfactory level of humour... wait, this is probably another LucasArts game. Or is it? Can't remember. I haven't played a lot of adventure games other than Monkey Island so my perception is a little biased Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyTordesLegend Posted April 23, 2014 Author Share Posted April 23, 2014 Goblins 3? Is that the best you can do? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Zak, Maniac Mansion, DOTT. Oh, and Sam & Max and Indy. XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 The Dig is also pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 You catch my drift, dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyTordesLegend Posted April 24, 2014 Author Share Posted April 24, 2014 (other than other Lucasfilm/Lucasarts games) Raymond, you missed this critical part of my criteria.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Good grief, you and your rules, Roy. ; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyTordesLegend Posted April 24, 2014 Author Share Posted April 24, 2014 Without rules there would be chaos Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huz Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Flight of the Amazon Queen is enjoyably daft. And available for free from the ScummVM site! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyTordesLegend Posted April 25, 2014 Author Share Posted April 25, 2014 good call Huz, I vaguely remember this one from reading reviews of it back in the day, but never actually played it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huz Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Simon the Sorcerer! Just the first one. Voiced by Chris Barrie! Massively diminishing returns after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyTordesLegend Posted April 25, 2014 Author Share Posted April 25, 2014 Haha, crikey yeah I loved Simon the Sorcerer, I'm sure I had an enhanced version or something (although I might have imagined this) for the Amiga A1200. I remember it having some very soothing music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huz Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Yes, Simon the Sorcerer was one of the first adventure games to have a special version for the Amiga 1200 with an eye-popping 256 colours. I was stuck with an Amiga 600, like a pauper. Never mind, we only had 32 colours back then but we knew how to use them. I think Simon the Sorcerer came out for the Amiga CD32 as well, with the aforementioned Chris Barrie voice acting. Surely the definitive version, combining a talkie CD game with Amiga music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyTordesLegend Posted April 28, 2014 Author Share Posted April 28, 2014 Those were the days man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compcat Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Dark Seed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artisa Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 You catch my drift, dude. Raymond, you missed this critical part of my criteria.... Precisely The last old school adventure game I played other than Monkey Island was Teenagent, and some of the puzzles in there were kind of stupid. It had its funny bits though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Never mind, we only had 32 colours back then but we knew how to use them.64 colours in halfbright mode. Oh how I loved DPaint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huz Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Dark Seed Yeah I like the bit where... oh wait, I'm thinking of Demon Seed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyTordesLegend Posted April 30, 2014 Author Share Posted April 30, 2014 64 colours in halfbright mode. Oh how I loved DPaint. The only game I remember actually using Halfbright was Super Cars II by Gremlin Graphics, although that's not to say there wasn't more. I loved the Amiga, and loved Deluxe Paint. I had Deluxe Paint II (from this pack) ....and eventually a hooky copy of Deluxe Paint IV. I used to hang around a local games company after doing my work experience there (Zeppelin Games, who later became Eutechnyx) trying to wow them with mock up images of Adventure Games created in Deluxe Paint. Needless to say they were less impressed by them, than I was....although at one point they did pay me a whole £25 for a game design which they never used. I can't figure out whether they saw potential or whether it was some sort of pay off lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huz Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Super Cars II has the best title music in recorded history. But it used half-bright mode? What, in those annoying question and answer interludes between the races? Phwoar. I didn't know that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyTordesLegend Posted April 30, 2014 Author Share Posted April 30, 2014 But it used half-bright mode? What, in those annoying question and answer interludes between the races? Phwoar. I didn't know that. The main race part of the game, I'm fairly sure was done in half bright, I remember reading it in the actual printed magazine reviews at the time. I did a quick search to make sure I'm not imagining it, and this was amongst the first things I found:- http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=199133 First, I'm 100% sure the game uses EHB (extra half bright), because of the nice shadows on the circuit... IMHO It would have been impossible without EHB on a 68000!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huz Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Weird. I never thought Supercars II was much of a looker. Good fun though. And dat title music: (This BBCode requires its accompanying plugin to work properly.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyTordesLegend Posted April 30, 2014 Author Share Posted April 30, 2014 Jesus, that takes me back. I loved game music in those days, there was a certain innocence to it. It was simple but striving to be advanced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Well, back then, I got DPaint IV,.. uhm,.. on a disc. From my uncle. However, The Secret of Monkey Island was the first game I ever bought! Together with an external floppy drive. And one Amiga Action Replay III! It enabled me to extract the SoMI soundtrack in that strange TFMX format, right out of the RAM, it was a blast. I also made my own sprites for Turrican ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.