Peter Tieryas, a former developer at LucasArts, got his start as a game tester working on games like Escape from Monkey Island. He looks back on the game all these years later, talking about what made it so special.
Cultured Vultures: We’ve taken into account every monkey, every eye patch and every undead pirate, so without further ado, here are the Monkey Island games across the franchise’s history ranked from worst to best.
Escape From Monkey Island, Sam & Max Hit the Road, and more.
Outlaws was a truly awesome game! And man, that soundtrack, nothing has beat it yet. It’s the game that created the western genre in gaming. RDR would of been nothing without this.
I imagine it probably hasn’t aged well but my god what a game it was for it’s day. I put in hundreds if not thousands of hours into that with my mates.
Star Wars Racer? That's awesome, the only way I could get it to run on a 64 bit pc was through emulation.
I played the bones off of some afterlife back in the day. I was hoping to see gladius but it wasn’t on there. I dug out the ps2 to play gladius like a year ago and it still holds up to this day. Such a fun game.
Cool but as the article mentions, you could get all these games from GOG already, which means there's a DRM free digital option too.
Escape from Monkey Island is now available, DRM-free and only on GOG.COM – the PC gaming platform where classics are saved from oblivion.
good to hear. this was the only of the Lucasarts adventures that hadnt been remastered or run under Scumm, so it was hard to play it on modern PCs
I know right? So I hope that more people will get a chance to play the game on modern PC's now =)
I already have the first three. Looks like I'll be picking this one up as well.
finished this on the playstation 2 back in 2001 , it's too bad they didn't use the same hand drawn art style as curse of monkey island which still looks the prettiest of all the monkey games
Great to see Monkey Island get some love. Will they ever make another one with LucasArts gone? I hope so!
Escape from monkey island was fun until the monkey combat nonsense. I never finished it because of it. I've played every other Monkey island though! 1 and 2 being classic favs,but Curse of Monkey Island really took it to a new level. Escape was not Curse, but I got cursed with monkey combat.
Just finished Tales of Monkey Island recently. Loved it, wish Telltale would make more.