Ackley and Ahern talk The Curse of Monkey Island

[Udvarnoky]

Jonathan Ackley has been sharing developer memories on Twitter throughout the year, including many about The Curse of Monkey Island. We had thought to embed these tweets throughout our new CMI interview, but the idea proved to be impractical. Since we’d gone to the trouble of collecting all those URLs, though, I thought I’d put them all here. Taken in aggregate they’re practically an article unto themselves, and they’d be otherwise inaccessible to those of us without Twitter:

https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1487145415711420419
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1487199807693221890
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1487247707857043456
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1487487658544668673
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1487891726890983426
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1488673416525746177
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1488674191230390275
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1488674554897571846
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1490342581657427975
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1488672930561097732
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1490343063645872128
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1490343316004610050
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1490343930117824522
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1490344353792880642
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1490344758337683460
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1491978257368973313
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1492159504917549057
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1492663745876684800
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1493240973672939520
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1493264687718285313
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1493747722586779654
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1494025906641260545
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1494528958926184448
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1495268944369704962
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1496909302262423553
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1503755841488531460
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1507425120586924038
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1510035777350037506
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1511500601229656066
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1511956648226480138
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1515130237083799552
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1516933414913396736
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1518239188960768002
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1519436155560812544
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1520478121908379648
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1520991257073360899
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1521489481119019009
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1524838588235784192
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1524922568750211072
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1528746361646030848
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1528892976499286016
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1533133083502817281
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1533153572744929280
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1544731668056928257
https://twitter.com/ackley_jonathan/status/1545222501327781888

[BillyCheers]

Wow, I have seen some of them. Great to have them all as a list – thank you! 😍

[Jake]

I dumped them all into a Twitter Moment (basically twitter's version of a playlist) for easy viewing: https://twitter.com/i/events/1546172305243398144

[Vainamoinen]

The pillow mints one really had me in stitches. 😂

 

Would have been exactly my kind of humor.

 

[Thrik]

It isn’t really Return to Monkey Island-related so probably warrants its own thread.

 

https://mixnmojo.com/features/interviews/Jonathan-Ackley-and-Larry-Ahern-talk-25-years-of-CMI/
 

Fantastic work from Jason pulling this together, leading to so many awesome answers.

[Staple Remover]

Slight off-topic but I had the pleasure of working with Larry briefly on a work project. I had to do my best to not “fanboy” over his work but I told him how much I enjoyed CMI, and he was very polite and great to work with!

[ThunderPeel2001]

7 hours ago, Staple Remover said:

Slight off-topic but I had the pleasure of working with Larry briefly on a work project. I had to do my best to not “fanboy” over his work but I told him how much I enjoyed CMI, and he was very polite and great to work with!

 

How strange! My company nearly hired him for a project, too. I had a Zoom call with him and also had to tell him what a fan I was. Sadly we didn't use him, but I think the project would have turned out better if we had.

[Udvarnoky]

Cool to hear about all the positive experiences people have had with Larry. He's always been a great interview. If anyone walks away from the CMI interview hungry for more, I can recommend the one he gave Adventure Classic Gaming in 2012 and the two parter conducted by Genesis Temple last year. Along with Mike Levine he also participated in a Mojo postmortem on Insecticide in 2018. And [never] forget The SCUMM Bar for the real legacy stuff.