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You may have had a VGA card at the time, but the first release of Monkey Island was EGA-only: http://www.worldofmi.com/thegames/monkey1/

True and that was very, very good but there was at least one extremely annoying bug in Monkey Island II. When you had to win the spitting contest you had to 1.) drink that drink which made your spit think, 2.) wait for when the wind was blowing and 3.) beforehand blow the horn to make everybody leave thinking that the mail boat has arrived so that you in the mean time could move the flags closer. The third one was buggy in some versions - at least the Amiga one. You could only get them to leave once and when you played without knowing that, you probably blew the horn just to find out what to do with it and thus lost the opportunity to move the flags. I had to play through a lot of the same stuff when I found that out, it was awful.

Some fans have gone through the games so thoroughly that they have not only listed all the story errors but also figured out how you can get stuck if you deliberately try. You can e.g. lose too much money in the vending machine if you keep using it even though you don't need it anymore (but that was Monkey Island I, IIRC).

Another minor logic error that annoyed me since I got stuck due to it was in Monkey Island IV, where you, in order to win the swimjumping contest had to wear the dunce cap from the "de-piratification school" (or whatever it was called). At first, I tried to pick it up at the school since I thought that maybe it will indeed let Guybrush make a smooth landing in the water but he was reluctant to pick it up since he wasn't a dunce. Looking at some hints online much later, I found out that you indeed had to use the dunce cap as I had suspected but in order to get it, you must attend the class and give the wrong answer to everything since then he'll get the cap. I considered it a bad puzzle since whilst it sometimes can be acceptable that you must figure out a way to force the main character to do something, it was stupid that he didn't want to at first, since once he had the cap, it wasn't a problem to make him wear it. It would've been better if he had been willing to try to take the cap but the teacher had prevented it, then it would've been a typical puzzle to figure out how to get it.

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I heartily agree. I'd like to go back and play the old LucasArts games like Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and Day of the Tentacle. I need to put together an old 486/DOS box so that I can load up my old Sierra (Space/King's Quest) and Origin (Wing Commander, Ultima) games. I keep saying it: Computer game companies could make a ton of money by simply updating their old classics to play easily on new computers. I don't even really care about updated graphics. I know that there are things like ScummVM that allow you to play some games and fix up the graphics a bit, but it requires the original disks, which I have but cannot use (no 5.25"/3.5" floppy drives). I, for one, would pay a lot of money to get copies of my old games that Just Work on my newer machines.

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Right on! Monkey Island 1 [worldofmi.com] and 2 [worldofmi.com] I'd suggest. Incredibly fun games. Wow, just mentioning these two makes me want to go and setup an old PC!

Right on! Monkey Island 1 [worldofmi.com] and 2 [worldofmi.com] I'd suggest. Incredibly fun games. Wow, just mentioning these two makes me want to go and setup an old PC!

No kidding, it's like a dozen paradigm shifts ago. I always have to restrain the urge to partition client's machines with a part for OS, swap, apps, files. It's the first thing I do with any of mine, and it has saved me countless hours of agony.

(And who the heck is Guybrush Threepwood??)

The Secret of Monkey Island. Quite possibly one of the funniest games I've ever played. Worth a download from your local P2P network. I'd give you my copy, but I think it got lost with the 386 I played it on.

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