[OwlBoy]

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I'v been playing Escape from monkey island on the PS2 and finnal beat it. Great game. I love the humor and puzzles.

I did a search for Monkey island mac on google and found a "abanonware" site and got monkey island 1 and 2 (3 seems to be PC only).

Man these are cool games . Anyone agree?

maybe I should start a petishon for monkey island 3 on the mac.

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-Owl

[LT]

Many, many people agree -- the MI series is one of Lucasarts' most beloved. Check out The International House of Mojo and its affiliate sites World of Monkey Island and Legend of Monkey Island for more like-minded folks.

BTW, MI3, The Curse of Monkey Island (PC only), is often considered the best of the series. It's beautifully animated, point-and-click 2D, not 3D like EFMI/MI4, which alot of MI fans weren't thrilled with. When I heard Escape was coming to Mac, I got Curse and played it on a friend's PC. It's probably too late for it to come to Mac.

When you're through with MI, you might enjoy Lucasarts' other classic adventure games, like Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max Hit The Road, Full Throttle, and The Dig.


LT

[ranga]

The Monkey Island series is probably the funniest and best series
of games ever made. I've liked the series since playing the first one
on my Centris.

MI3 (Curse of Monkey Island) is probably the best one in the series,
and its a shame that it never made it to the Mac. Fortunately it is quite
lightweight and runs great under VPC on most modern systems (I
played it on my Pismo/400), so you don't have to get a PC to play it.

I've played several of the other Lucas Arts adventure games, and
only one I've liked is Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. FoA is
a great game, the humor and puzzles are similar to the MI series.

--ranga

[gthyb]

hey, where did you find that site? i couldn't find it anywhere....i'd love to play MI 1 and 2 again...

thanks,

gthyb@mac.com

[gthyb]

ok, so i found it on my second try...i'd been to that site once.

[Elvin]

The Monkey Island games are great...now if they would just bring back Sam & Max

[11011001]

Ahh, if ya got a fast enough computer you could just emulate MI3 in VPC right? I mean it does not need any fancy graphics cards right?

Problem is getting VPC

Anyways, I LOVE MONKEY ISLAND!!!! <- I hope you could hear me!

It is the funiest game ever, all of them! Gawd, those were the days, when games were just cool, and weren't based all around instant gratification. There were so many hidden things in these games, little jokes, that just cracked me up.

I am still finishing MI2... call me a newbie, but eh, ya gotta start somewhere!

Well this game has certainly held some influence in the stuff that I am doing in my little shareware game.

You know what? no, what? I am going to go place MI2 right now!!! YA!!!

[ranga]

if ya got a fast enough computer you could just emulate MI3 in VPC right? I mean it does not need any fancy graphics cards right?

You don't need a particularly fast computer to run MI3 under VPC.

It ran just fine under VPC on my Pismo (G3/400). It would probably
run just as well on a G3/300 as well.

It will run on any graphics card. In fact there is a really funny message
in the configuration page when you try to enable hardware graphics
acceleration.

Problem is getting VPC

Most online stores carry VPC. You don't really need VPC 4 or 5 to run
MI3. I bought VPC 3.0 DOS and installed Win95 in order to play MI3.
VPC 3.0 cost about $30.

--ranga

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[nest18]

I'm playing EFMI and really love it .... can someone help me, I'm stuck in the swamp !!!! For a strange reason i can't open the gate to guybrush ?! when the option "unlock gate" comes to screen i select it and it disapear without unlocking the gate ?!?

Good story line, very good humor. It's a shame the other version are not Mac native.

hope someone could help me


Thanks