RetroAhoy: The Secret of Monkey Island

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Strong rec nickt · 2022-04 · on “Return to Monkey Island – Coming 2022”

Really looking forward to this. Back in the day I played it on my Amiga 500, but last year, after watching Retro Ahoys video [1] I got my old 486 out of the loft and bought a Roland MT-32 just to play it - highly recommended, as is the video. [1] [this video]

Strong rec FireInsight · 2022-09 · on ““Return to Monkey Island” is out today”

Do yourself a favor and watch this wonderful video essay historique on The Monkey Island series from Ahoy; [this video]

Recommends TimSchumann · 2020-11 · on “Guybrush Fact vs. Fiction”

For those of you who are looking for some context, and have an hour to spare, Ahoy made a great documentary on YouTube about ‘The Secret of Monkey Island’ that touches on this topic. [0] The source material linked in this thread looks to be more authoritative than the video, and if I remember correctly the video even gets this detail of the story wrong, but sometimes it’s nice to know the story around the story. [0] [this video]

Cites v-erne · 2022-02 · on “Ask HN: What are your contrarian views?”

>> tech companies in general should be doing significantly more to protect their engineers' time, and the ones that get good at this are going to have outsized impact I have just watched history of The Secret of Monkey Island ( [this video] ). What struck me was how relatively cheap it was (if I remember correctly it costed 130000$ and main team was only 3 people). I now that it was a different time, but even if You take the inflation (of money and requirements) into consideration its still a miracle. And one of the reasons given for this project success was that Schafer and the rest was left alone to do their thing - I would not say they were protected, but at least nobody important enough paid