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How did you get into Monkey Island?

FriarFriar
edited August 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
What was your first game? And what made you decide to pick it up?

My first was Curse, which i only played because i was at my cousins house for a couple of weeks and my computer deleted Sims, which was my favourite at the time.

So, what about you?
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  • Murray_the_fearsomeMurray_the_fearsome
    edited July 2009
    My first was Secret back in 1991 (when I was only six years old!)... I remember getting Revenge for Christmas when it came out, and salivating over each subsequent release.
  • xChri5xxChri5x
    edited July 2009
    I got into Monkey Island using a giant Q-tip
  • SilverwolfpetSilverwolfpet
    edited July 2009
    I...errr...swimmed
  • Javi-Wan KenobiJavi-Wan Kenobi
    edited July 2009
    I cooked a soup with some odd ingredients. When I woke up next morning I was in Monkey Island!!
  • corruptbigginscorruptbiggins
    edited July 2009
    With a banana picker and a small hat.
  • natlinxznatlinxz
    edited July 2009
    Being on telltale games forum for more than 5 seconds. Nuff said.
  • RankoSaoRankoSao
    edited July 2009
    through word of mouth online, and then later getting Escape for PS2
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited July 2009
    my ex .."friend".. brough curse round and we played eventurly I traded pokemon silver 4 it
  • Ell223Ell223
    edited July 2009
    I'm only 17 so the orginial came out before I was born. But my mother brought the white label pack sometime during my childhood and when I started playing games, monkey island was one of the first one's I played. And Monkey Island 2 remains my favourite game of all time.
  • Shish keJoeShish keJoe
    edited July 2009
    My first game was Monkey Island 1, i still got the original retail box with the pirate dial card... I copied the disks to a CD-rom a few years back but i couldn't trow away that box... So many laughs... so many memories!!!
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited July 2009
    I got the original MI and Loom CD versions, they came with the CD drive my parents bought to upgrade our first computer.
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited July 2009
    Friar wrote: »
    How did you get into Monkey Island?
    I didn't! The box was too small for me.
  • TacobobTacobob
    edited July 2009
    I was already a major Lucsasfilm (Not Arts yet!) and Sierra adventure geek by then. I read about it in a preview in some gaming magazine and was interested. Scooped up when it came out (I still have the original, code wheel and floppy disks!). I remember playing it on a friend's Tandy (Which had a sound card) and being AMAZED at the music, as compared to my beeper sound on my PC at the time.
  • britt12334britt12334
    edited July 2009
    i watched my brother play Escape when i was younger and then played it myself and liked it. So my parents bought me Curse and i loved that one and have been hooked on the series ever since.
  • BadwolfBadwolf
    edited July 2009
    I had a friend with a copy of Curse, which we spent playing all New Years Eve a few years ago. Except he didn't have the second disc.

    I went out and bought the Monkey Island Bounty Pack a few weeks later.
  • Dash383535Dash383535
    edited July 2009
    since iam 12 i played first was escape from monkey island i got it for chirstmas and played it on the PS2 and still own it
  • EverlastEverlast
    edited July 2009
    Pale Man wrote: »
    I got the original MI and Loom CD versions, they came with the CD drive my parents bought to upgrade our first computer.

    I bought a sound blaster equipment that came with lots of game filled with Lucas Arts Loom, The Secret of Monkey Island, Shockwave Assault (which i never got to run) and a Sherlock Holmes game which didnt worked. When my big brother installed the SMI 1, i was enchanted with the intro music and piratey atmosphere of the game. i played it in the mid 90's. Good memories good times.
  • KenifKenif
    edited July 2009
    On my friends Amiga - his dad had a friend who got us a copy of all those floppies.
  • stemotstemot
    edited July 2009
    Got the original on the Amiga 500, my very first adventure game. :)
  • NabaDwANabaDwA
    edited July 2009
    my first game was EMI believe it or not. I had played games like Toonstruck, Discworld and Gilbert Goodmate before trying out Monkey Island. I picked it up about 6 or 7 years after it's release because of some reviews i had read on adventuregamers and i had known about monkey island somehow before that... i dont know, maybe through a friend
    but I only played all the other editions this year
  • GrulienGrulien
    edited July 2009
    I just walked my way into the second biggest Monkey Head I've ever seen. :D
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited July 2009
    sadly my first monkey island was launch of the screaming narhwhal. If it wasnt for telltale, I wouldnt know about monkey island(or sam and max for that matter), but if it wasnt for sbcg4ap, I wouldnt know about telltale.
  • NabaDwANabaDwA
    edited July 2009
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    sadly my first monkey island was launch of the screaming narhwhal. If it wasnt for telltale, I wouldnt know about monkey island(or sam and max for that matter), but if it wasnt for sbcg4ap, I wouldnt know about telltale.

    Are you going to try go back and play the older games?
  • wdrpgwdwdrpgwd
    edited July 2009
    Back in '95 I had a SEGA CD and saw a torn Secret of Monkey Island box at a place called "Smoke and Fire" Game store. And it was priced at $14.99. So I said "why not?".
  • laryslarys
    edited July 2009
    I brought toonstruck which was one of my best games and i loved the gameplay. then i saw my cousin playing a demo of CMI and fell in love with it...
  • thatdude98thatdude98
    edited July 2009
    my bro.
  • tmfm2000tmfm2000
    edited July 2009
    Well, it all began when I was about 8 years old. Me and my bestest buddy used to play games on his computer, and somehow we got our hands on The Dig. That's what got me hooked to adventure games. I loved how you could play the game by your own pace.
    So I began looking for more of them. Eventually, I got the Curse of Monkey Island demo from a PC Gamer CD or something. I loved it! I loved those cartoon guys, the funnines, the pirates! So my granpa got me the full game from for christmas, but the joy was to be shortlived. The game didn't work on my computer. The tragedy! The demo had worked fine but the full one just didn't. I was no computer whiz so I just had to deal with it. It was a sad day.
    As coincidence would have it, my dad had gotten me the two first MI games for the same christmas (he knew I wanted that monkey island game and thought they were all the same;)). That lack of communication between the dad and grand-dito, combined with my fathers lack of knowlege about computer games in general, proved for once that two wrongs sometimes makes a right.
    Even though I actually wanted CMI, I sat down and played the first two editions instead, and even though they were hard (I remember using walkthroughs for most of MI2) I finished them, and I kinda liked them.
    It wasn't the same though. Unlike most of you (as it seems) the first two never were my favourites. I fell in love with the tall Guybrush before I got to know the short, pixelly ones. Now I've grown to like them too. But that tall guy was what I really, really wanted!
    So what happened? Did I ever get to play it? Well, it worked on my friends computer, so it all worked out in the end :)

    (now turn of your computer and go to sleep!)
  • NabaDwANabaDwA
    edited July 2009
    larys wrote: »
    I brought toonstruck which was one of my best games and i loved the gameplay. then i saw my cousin playing a demo of CMI and fell in love with it...

    Toonstruck was awesome...
  • MarzhinMarzhin
    edited July 2009
    When I was a kid, my father bought our first family computer. Before long, I found a game called Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis in the 'bargain bin' of the local computer store. I bought it with my pocket money because, hey, that was Indiana Jones, and Indiana Jones was cool. And boy was that game cool ! So I looked for other games from the same game company and a couple of months later, bought Day of the tentacle from the same bargain bin :D

    A few other months later, The Curse of Monkey Island came out and was having raving reviews in the game magazines I used to read. Unfortunately, my pocket money was not enough to buy, so I bought the Monkey Island 1 + 2 pack from... the very same bargain bin :) May the banana god bless this bargain bin for centuries to come :D
  • thatdude98thatdude98
    edited July 2009
    Toonstruck?
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited July 2009
    NabaDwA wrote: »
    Are you going to try go back and play the older games?

    well, special edition is out, so I might get it, and I heard that some of the monkey islands are on xbox 360 and Ps2, so I migh tjust rent those until I beat them, I'll see
    EDIT: It turns out only escape is at my local rental place, so I'll play it I guess.
  • MarzhinMarzhin
    edited July 2009
    thatdude98 wrote: »
    Toonstruck?

    It was a zany point'n'click adventure game by Virgin Interactive. It stars Christopher Lloyd as an artist who finds himself trapped in the cartoon world he created. Very nice game.

    http://www.mobygames.com/game/toonstruck/screenshots
  • DarkAcidDarkAcid
    edited July 2009
    I remember playing it in the Netherlands. My dad took a military job over there and my Dutch friend introduced me to it in 1991. I was 13 at the time, and I've played every one of them ever since.
  • FriarFriar
    edited July 2009
    tmfm2000 wrote: »
    Well, it all began when I was about 8 years old. Me and my bestest buddy used to play games on his computer, and somehow we got our hands on The Dig. That's what got me hooked to adventure games. I loved how you could play the game by your own pace.
    So I began looking for more of them. Eventually, I got the Curse of Monkey Island demo from a PC Gamer CD or something. I loved it! I loved those cartoon guys, the funnines, the pirates! So my granpa got me the full game from for christmas, but the joy was to be shortlived. The game didn't work on my computer. The tragedy! The demo had worked fine but the full one just didn't. I was no computer whiz so I just had to deal with it. It was a sad day.
    As coincidence would have it, my dad had gotten me the two first MI games for the same christmas (he knew I wanted that monkey island game and thought they were all the same;)). That lack of communication between the dad and grand-dito, combined with my fathers lack of knowlege about computer games in general, proved for once that two wrongs sometimes makes a right.
    Even though I actually wanted CMI, I sat down and played the first two editions instead, and even though they were hard (I remember using walkthroughs for most of MI2) I finished them, and I kinda liked them.
    It wasn't the same though. Unlike most of you (as it seems) the first two never were my favourites. I fell in love with the tall Guybrush before I got to know the short, pixelly ones. Now I've grown to like them too. But that tall guy was what I really, really wanted!
    So what happened? Did I ever get to play it? Well, it worked on my friends computer, so it all worked out in the end :)

    (now turn of your computer and go to sleep!)

    If you still can't get it to work, download SCUMMVM. That should fix it (i know it fixed my cutscene skipping glitch) It also allows you to port it to different consoles (like the wii for example).
  • MadMuppetMadMuppet
    edited July 2009
    I was 11 in 1991 when I picked it up in San Fransisco whilst on vacation. It was the Amiga version. I had read a review of it in a Swedish computer games magazine and it just seemed to ooze this cozy mood. It was hellish having to wait until we got back home a couple of weeks later until I could finally play it. I explored the gorgeous box art and the screenshots on the back cover obsessively (yes, Spiffy; "Woof-woof, Arf" indeed ), trying to imagine what it was like to play.

    It must have been beyond my parents how the anticipation of a game could top a trip to California. Though, getting to ride the original POTC ride at Disneyland during the same trip was a valuable experience to have had before even running the game for the first time. A Ron Gilbert interview included with the game revealed the inspiration that ride had provided, so I rode it aware of the fact. Then when I got home to the computer room... the music, the humour, the tone - it was just even more than I had ever hoped. It was an amazing summer.

    Then, later, the utter shock that MI2 would top even that experience. Some of Land's music themes in LeChuck's Revenge are somehow ingrained in my soul ever since I first played it.

    By the time Curse was released I thought it was "nice", but it felt - to me - bereft of the magical mood and tone and wit I had once experienced - but perhaps this is an inevitable consequence of a combination of childhood memories shaping one's impressions.

    I played all of EMI when it came out, but I remember *nothing* of that gaming experience today, which kind of creeps me out. :)
  • MrFerderMrFerder
    edited July 2009
    Around the time that Escape first came out I found a PC Gamer magazine contained a disk with full classic games (Need for Speed, Decent, King's Quest 1 and Secret of Monkey Island). I played King's Quest until I got frustrated with how ugly and boring it was and I discovered Monkey Island. Playing it in contrast to King's Quest made the graphics looks amazing and the story and humour really stood out.
    I then played the demos for Curse of Monkey Island and Escape from Monkey Island before I was finally able to get my hands on the full games of 2 to 4. I remember being very confused playing the demos for Curse (with no knowledge of what happened in Revenge) because it seemed like Escape picked up the story more logically from Secret than Curse did (being that Guybrush was back on Melee Island).
  • anaxpanaxp
    edited July 2009
    MrFerder wrote: »
    Around the time that Escape first came out I found a PC Gamer magazine contained a disk with full classic games (Need for Speed, Decent, King's Quest 1 and Secret of Monkey Island). I played King's Quest until I got frustrated with how ugly and boring it was and I discovered Monkey Island. Playing it in contrast to King's Quest made the graphics looks amazing and the story and humour really stood out.
    I then played the demos for Curse of Monkey Island and Escape from Monkey Island before I was finally able to get my hands on the full games of 2 to 4. I remember being very confused playing the demos for Curse (with no knowledge of what happened in Revenge) because it seemed like Escape picked up the story more logically from Secret than Curse did (being that Guybrush was back on Melee Island).

    I felt the same about Kings Quest, the only one I actually played properly was IV (...don't think I ever finished it though, but thought it was clever that time actually passed by). It just annoyed me most of the time how easily (...and randomly) you could die! Anyone remember the cliff down from the wizards house in KQ3?!

    First got into MI when I was about 7, it almost never happened as I couldn't work out how to get past the 'white label' advertisement screen (for other WL games at the time) that flashed up when you ran the WL version using the floppy's on the Amiga... It was only weeks later when I realised that right clicking the screen actually got passed it...!!:rolleyes:
  • KyoteKyote
    edited July 2009
    I had just bought a brand-new PC in the fall of 1997, and since I remembered liking adventure games back when I gamed in the earlier parts of the 90s, I thought hey, that Curse of MOnkey Island one is new, let's try that....Best. Game. Evar.
  • guitarsareboringguitarsareboring
    edited July 2009
    Grulien wrote: »
    I just walked my way into the second biggest Monkey Head I've ever seen. :D

    DAMN. I opened this thread just to type something like that...
  • DontEatRawHagisDontEatRawHagis
    edited July 2009
    My first game was Tales of Monkey Island Launch of the Screaming Narwhal.

    Kept hearing good things from PC Gamer and I was a fan of Sam and Max, because of the Preview copy on Steam of Abe Lincoln must die, which I played because PC Gamer recommended it.
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