Secret Of Monkey Island: Special Edition

[Taffer]

Remastered version of Secret Of Monkey Island, with HD visuals, is now on XBox Live for 800 MS Points! It also includes the option to revert to the old-school graphics for those of a nostalgic nature!

[TheEnd]

Out of interest, what was the secret?

[Jasandjules]

TheEnd said:

Out of interest, what was the secret?

I never managed to complete it, so can't help with that one.

But that's a real blast from the past, I played that at school. Does it still have the spitting competition etc?

[TheEnd]

Maybe it was the fact they ran out of monkeys years ago, but just employed street children in costumes to protect the tourism.

[T89 Callan]

Oh man I'm getting this NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TheEnd said:

Out of interest, what was the secret?

Do you really want to know?????????????????

SPOILER BELOW!

At the end it turns out Guybrush and the bad guy are children dreaming at a fairground. (this may have been secret of Monkey Island 2 though)

[FourWheelDrift]

For the PC also the classic Lucasarts games will be available on Steam, including the new HD voice acted Monkey Island 1 & 2, Loom, Indiana Jones games and others.

[Frederick]

60% of the way through, 3hrs in... loving it

[Frederick]

Completed... Didn't get all of the achievements though so will have to do a second play through to mop up...

I know there's one for doing it quickly, thought I'd get it this time but obv didn't - you must have to go through insanely fast otherwise! Another one is to learn all the taunts and parries from the sword master and other pirates... need that too.

145/200 though isn't bad going! I played through in original 16bit graphics, so will do the next playthrough on HD - I love this game!!

[T89 Callan]

I downloaded the trial all ready for retro gaming but....

....I didn't really enjoy it, felt like I was trying to update childhood memories. Some things are best left as nostagia.

[MISS E]

My partner downloaded this game last night on xbox.He was like a big kid again lol

[Stig]

All I can say is BRING BACK FULL THROTTLE!!!

I have it on PC, but would love them to revive the remake/part II that got shelved

You'd think that given the demand for TV shows like American Chopper there would be plenty of demand for it!

[The Nur]

Stig said:

All I can say is BRING BACK FULL THROTTLE!!!

I have it on PC, but would love them to revive the remake/part II that got shelved

You'd think that given the demand for TV shows like American Chopper there would be plenty of demand for it!

Oh yes, full throttle was immense. Short but oh so satisfying

[Phil1]

Can't wait for "Day of the Tentacle" myself. Easily my favourite LucasArts game.

[ceebmoj]

The Nur said:

Stig said:

All I can say is BRING BACK FULL THROTTLE!!!

I have it on PC, but would love them to revive the remake/part II that got shelved

You'd think that given the demand for TV shows like American Chopper there would be plenty of demand for it!

Oh yes, full throttle was immense. Short but oh so satisfying

you might want to check out http://www.scummvm.org/

also I seem to remember that Full throttle had extensions to SCUM so might not run on the new xbox engine.

just checked the scummvm sight and that seem to think that full throttle works ok so I must have been wrong

Edited by ceebmoj on Thursday 16th July 16:11 after reading http://www.scummvm.org/

Edited by ceebmoj on Thursday 16th July 16:12

[matt0677]

T89 Callan said:

Oh man I'm getting this NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TheEnd said:

Out of interest, what was the secret?

Do you really want to know?????????????????

SPOILER BELOW!

At the end it turns out Guybrush and the bad guy are children dreaming at a fairground. (this may have been secret of Monkey Island 2 though)

I thought the secret was "Big Whoop"?

[ToadHall]

Do you remember the Mix n Mojo wheel that came with the Monkey Island series?

The game might have been in 2D but it had so much more depth to it than games today.

Full Throttle was also very cool .... so to was the disc world series and the simon the sorcerer series.

Check this out http://www.games4win.com

it has lots of old school games !

Enjoy

[toothrot]

brilliant! Just found the game on live, spent the morning playing it Love the ability to blend from new to old skool in real time!

[Neil_H]

Probably my favourite games of all time, will have to get this, even though I've completed them all more than once!

IIRC the secret is....there is no secret. The part in Curse where they are turned into children wasn't real.

[toothrot]

its the game that gave me my name!

[Salgar]

I'm busy playing this through. It's awesome. Also the first time my OH has ever watched me play a game for more than 14 seconds.