![]() The new streamlined inventory and action interface (a change for the worse-the second game’s overhaul’s ring menu is more streamlined).A dev commentary (wasn’t worth it in my opinion).Sure, playing it that way will lock you out of other features of the new edition, such as: Note Guybrush's weird hair style.įortunately, the community came up with a Talkie Edition Builder for DOS that allows you to convert your (Steam) Special Edition to either a DOS-compatible talkie version or a ScummVM-compatible talkie version with slightly higher quality. 'Wanna Buy A Map?' in Special Edition mode. Unfortunately, playing the game in “classic mode” also does away with the high-quality and very welcome voice-overs. Compatibility wasn’t exactly what we were waiting for, but some quality-of-life enhancements were, most notably a “talkie” edition! As with the special edition of its successor LeChuck’s Revenge, here you can also toggle between new and old graphics modes on the fly. If you’re interested in these differences, this educational video compares all different modes between builds on DOS, the Atari ST, the Amiga, and including sound differences:Īnd then we were treated with 2010’s Special Edition: an edition that finally lifts Monkey Island out of ScummVM and into the modern Windows gaming era (hooray?). If you were on a very tight budget in 1990, you might not even be able to afford an EGA graphics card and had to revert to merely four bit colors of the CGA mode-and perhaps also make due without a Sound Blaster. A later 256-color VGA version of course also improved Guybrush’s colors (the skin, the buttons on his trousers) and added more subtle shades on the lights of the houses. Can you spot the difference?ĭid you spot the checkerboard pattern? That’s a way to fool our eyes into thinking there’s more depth to the picture-working with the constraints of EGA. Take a close look at the screenshots below, especially around the curb and into the sky: That’s also one of the reasons that the adventure on Melee Island took place during the night! Yet another clever way to hide its technical limitations, without any compromise to the atmosphere. Adventure games didn’t sell well, even the later ones, and even if they were reviewed well, probably also leading up to the decision to do some housekeeping in Lucasfilm while it transformed into the more corporate LucasArts-up the point where Monkey Island’s father, Ron Gilbert, left, after creating LeChuck’s Revenge.īack in the day, Monkey Island was a prime example of excellent dithering artwork, where you’d make the most of those graphical restrictions that came with EGA that, depending on the mode, only supported up to 16 colors at the same time. In the beginning of the nineties, The Secret’s release, the first in many to come, was still largely ignored. But instead, you’ll find yourself immersed in a goofy but hearty pirate story, full of epic quests, (insult) sword fights, loot, and… undead navigator heads? What is The Secret of Monkey Island anyway? Something you will not discover in this game, that’s for sure. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue Two years after the latest Game Boy installment, Back from the Sewers, Konami gave the TMNT franchise yet another try-third time’s a charm, as they say.Kirby's Dream Land 2 In March 1995, the previously white now turned pink sucking fluff ball named Kirby dreamed up a much improved Land installment for the Game Boy: Kirby’s Dream Land 2.Looney Tunes Carrot Crazy: Eh, What's Up Game Boy Color? In my search for decent Looney Tunes games on the Game Boy (Color) platform, I happen to come across an awful lot of bad games, especially in the year 2000, when Infogames launched their next major Looney Tunes assault called “Games for the next Mil-Looney-Um”, as seen in the following splendid ad:.Two years later, Enix arrived with their own adaptation to the formula: what if you could collect (here called tame) monsters from the Dragon Quest universe? Dragon Warrior Monsters: Gotta Breed Em All When the Pokémon craze hit the West in 1998, it became clear that it couldn’t be stopped.Zombies (Game Of The Year) The most popular PopCap game everybody and their grandmother played back in the day was certainly the tile-matching browser game Bejeweled.
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