Reliving the good old days (literally)
Being an adventurer from way back when (I started playing my first adventure games on my trusty Commodore 64 in that pixelglorious era of the eighties) and having had the privilege of playing almost all of LucasArts adventuregames (Loom has eluded me), I was thrilled by Telltale's news of their Tales of Monkey Island.
Ever since Telltale enriched my life with the glorious comeback of Sam & Max I have been in love with this company. But that's a different thread.
So, I bought Tales of Monkey Island.
Good for me!
Alas, my computer decided to crash on me before I got a chance to play the first episode. Boohoo!
Good thing for me, however, that I have the nag of keeping all my favourite games in their original packaging, stashed away somewhere in a secret smuggling compartment in my room. Also a good thing that I tend to keep hold of my older computers.
So, putting two and two together I decided to dust off one of my all-time adventure favourites, Monkey 2, get my old Toshiba Pentium3 Windows Millennium with Floppy Drive back into action, and install the game from the original floppy disks, using the Dos Prompt.
And let me tell you, it's a hoot!
It's like going back in time, almost 18 years!
The sound of the floppy disk revving into action in the floppy drive does bring back fond memories. I wish they would make the cd/dvd-rom drives so that they could give off that kind of floppy sound.
Well, gotta go back to finding a way around the Largo Embargo
Ever since Telltale enriched my life with the glorious comeback of Sam & Max I have been in love with this company. But that's a different thread.
So, I bought Tales of Monkey Island.
Good for me!
Alas, my computer decided to crash on me before I got a chance to play the first episode. Boohoo!
Good thing for me, however, that I have the nag of keeping all my favourite games in their original packaging, stashed away somewhere in a secret smuggling compartment in my room. Also a good thing that I tend to keep hold of my older computers.
So, putting two and two together I decided to dust off one of my all-time adventure favourites, Monkey 2, get my old Toshiba Pentium3 Windows Millennium with Floppy Drive back into action, and install the game from the original floppy disks, using the Dos Prompt.
And let me tell you, it's a hoot!
It's like going back in time, almost 18 years!
The sound of the floppy disk revving into action in the floppy drive does bring back fond memories. I wish they would make the cd/dvd-rom drives so that they could give off that kind of floppy sound.
Well, gotta go back to finding a way around the Largo Embargo
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