How did you come across MI?

[serweet]

I know a lot of people here will have started from the original game, but it also seems lots of people first played Curse.
So I'm curious as to how you first came across the games and which was your first to play?

My brother got Curse of Monkey Island for the PC, and installed it on our computer, and I just started my own save on it, seeing what it was like, and I instantly fell in love with the humour and storyline. Then I sought out the first two games and played the 3 through in order before I finally foudn a copy of Escape.

[Sheepbrush]

My brother showed SMI for me.

[Mataku]

I'm ashamed to say it,but I haven't even heard of Lucasarts until CMI came out. I was a Sierra fanboy, and saw nothing else. After playing CMI, I bought something called "Lucasarts Archive III (http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/dos-games/1179-1.jpg)" that had "the dig", "full throttle", some starwars games, and "monkey island madness" cd, that had both of the first MIs. I finished FT first, and the 2 MI after that (The dig took me a little while to finish, up to 2002 :P). anyway, after that I bought more lucasarts game, and finished pretty much every LEC adventure game there was (expect the first Maniac Mansion)

[JackBurtonMe]

My friends and I used to swap pirated Amiga games at school and one day I was given 4 disks with the words Monkey Island written on them. I played it, loved it, bought the original, bought the sequel, bought Last Crusade, bought Fate of Atlantis, bought Curse, bought EMI, etc etc etc.

[Shwoo]

I'd heard about the games a few times online, but since they were already pretty old, and I'd never heard of eBay or pirating, I couldn't do much about it.

Then I learned about pirating, and thought that the Secret of Monkey Island was such an old game that it wouldn't matter if I got it for free. I really enjoyed it, and later downloaded the sequel. I didn't download the other two games, because my conenction couldn't handle it, and I was suspicous of direct downloads of CD-ROM games.

A few years later, I saw the Curse of Monkey Island in a shop and, having developed a moral code that included not stealing computer games, was really happy for the opportunity to legally obtain a Monkey Island game. The only thing I regret is not getting Grim Fandango while I was there.

I've never played Escape From Monkey Island, and don't really have any desire to.

Since I regret not paying for the Secret of Monkey Island, I'll definitely get the remake when it comes out.

[Threepwood4Life]

My dad got it off a friend way back in 1991 for the Amiga 500 (pirated of course) and that was my introduction to MI and point n' click games in general

[Armakuni]

Came across it in a video game shop (well, both video games and computers), back in oh... '91, I think.
It was the Amiga version of the game. I had no idea what it was about, I didn't know the genre or anything. But I had to get it because of the big box and nice box art :D
Yeah, I was young back then.

[Olaus Petrus]

My friend bought Secret of the Monkey Island and LeChuck's Revenge to Amiga500 and we played those together. It was easier that way, because we were just school boys and our skill in English wasn't good at that time.

Then some years later I bought CD which had both to my PC.

[MusicallyInspired]

My dad was very into adventures since before I was born. He introduced me to all of them. I inherited a stack of old Rainbow Magazines for the Tandy Color Computer 3. They have pages and pages of code of adventure games that you can type up yourself and run on a CoCo (which I also inherited!).

[threepcross]

my aunt and my dad had the two first MI and some Indy games. me and my brother used to play them to death.

[belacqua]

me and my brother kept Curse of Monkey Island as a Christmas gift... since that moment i loved MI and played also first two games; after that, played EfMI... I LOVE Monkey Island !!!

[Skippy the Demon]

I think it was in 92 my dad had the sudden urge to buy all these Indiana Jones LucasArts adventure games, and I've always been into pirates so he got LeChucks Revenge for me. I played the hell out of that game, then I bought the Secret of Monkey Island on CD had remastered music on it... played the hell out of that too.

[Sir Primalform Magnifico]

I had a demo of Grim Fandango when I was about 10-ish and got the game for my next birthday. There was an advert for CMI on the back of the manual. I then got something called the Monkey Island Bounty Pack which contained all three (at that point) games.

I still remember when I first watched that cutscene in Elaine's mansion that happens behind closed doors (so to speak). The fact you've only got dialogue and the sentence bar makes it so funny.

[VagrantWulf]

Let's see...

I was already acquainted with LucasArts games because I'd played versions of them in not-very-many colours on a friend's PC, and when they came out in many more colours for the Amiga, I picked them up. I have fond memories of games like Zak McKracken, Maniac Mansion, Loom, and so on.

I fell in love with Secret of Monkey Island as soon as I played it, and got it as quickly as I could for the Amiga, on which I played it to death. Then I proceeded to get many other LA adventures, including Fate of Atlantis, Lechuck's Revenge, and so on.

Finally I got myself a VGA PC (as they were all the rage at the time) and I picked up Lechuck's Revenge for that, too. And a while after that, a version of Secret of Monkey Island on CD with enhancced music came about, so I picked that up too.

I was really into LucasArts adventures way back when, so I played them all in order from their very earliest ones. I played the Sierra games too, but I can't say I was half as fond of thhose, though I do have fond memories of Quest for Glory, if nothing else.

So many great games out for the PC at that time though, and the way technology was progressing, every new year became a brand new wonder. Tech doesn't move as fast today in today's console dominated market, but the ideas in the indie and small company markets are flowing thick and fast.

Bless 'em.

[Secret Fawful]

I read about it in a gaming magazine, where it was listed as #6 in the funniest video games of all time. Sam and Max Hit the Road made #1 and Day of the Tentacle made #2. But Monkey Island caught my attention with the shot of Guybrush and the diamond ring, and the article calling it Naked Gun with pirates. And I love that type of humor.

When I got a PC, I remembered that article, and looked those games up online, and that's how I found Monkey Island.

[taumel]

This way ... (http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/secret-of-monkey-island/cover-art/gameCoverId,31256/)

[MusicallyInspired]

-10 points for MobyGames image blocking. Just put the URL there.

[taumel]

oopsa

[tredlow]

Heard about it while reading a review of the Journey to El Dorado game, which recommended that I buy Monkey island instead. Played the 1st and 2nd from a friend's copy, then got instantly hooked.

[Wicked Mouse]

Can't remember HOW I got to MI, but my first acquaintance with MI was Curse :) And I've kinda fell in love with its graphics, secretly hoping they will some day make something similar again.

[Irishmile]

The first time I played was when I was about 12 or 13... MI had come out about 1 or 2 years prior. I was visiting my Father (divorced parents FTL) He lived near this video rental place that also rented out video games including PC games... I rented The Secret of Monkey Island, and was hooked... after playing the game all that weekend I returned it and saved up my money to buy my own copy...

[Zoinker]

I had just played The Dig after digging it up from a bunch of old cd I had around. Although I had to use a walkthrough for basically every puzzle in that game, I still fell in love with it and wanted more, so I went to the video game store to pick up something similar. That happened to be CoMI, and that basically cemented my adventure game obsession.

[pilouuuu]

I read a review in Amiga Format and found it very interesting. When I finally got to play it on my Amiga 500 I felt it love with it.

The sound, the graphics which were amazing back then and the fantastic atmosphere and story... And then the humour. There were few games so entertaining back then and even more these days.

TSOMI is a complete classic and I played it during a few hours each day then I got stuck and came back to it a few weeks later. There were no internet and guides back then, so solving the puzzles and getting to the end was an amazing experience.

I don't know if it is because I played it during my teenage years, but I feel so nostalgic for the experience of playing it for the first time...

Monkey Island rocks!

[Kaldire]

played every advent ever made since day one .. infocom... then stuff like sierra's MYSTERY HOUSE...
maniac mansion lead me to lucas i think tho

[monkey_05_06]

When we (my family) got our very first 2X CD-ROM Drive for our Tandy PC on Christmas of 1994 we also got The Secret of Monkey Island, LOOM, and The Secret Weapons of the Luftwafe (all of course from LA). The spirit of the game captured me (by which I of course mean I have been possessed) and never let go. What can I say? :cool:

[Jake]

A friend loaned me the disks one day at school (along with a photocopy of the code wheel!) and told me it was "like playing a cartoon!" and it made me realize many things, both about what is actually funny, and what a video game was capable of. My love for that game also started a weird chain of events which ended with me here working on the fifth one. So that's kinda crazy.

[HoppyDragon]

A friend loaned me the disks one day at school (along with a photocopy of the code wheel!) and told me it was "like playing a cartoon!" and it made me realize many things, both about what is actually funny, and what a video game was capable of. My love for that game also started a weird chain of events which ended with me here working on the fifth one. So that's kinda crazy.

Man, I had a photocopy of the codewheel too. My dad got the game from a friend when I was about six or seven. It was sometime around '91 or '92. I sat down one Saturday and played the game all the way through from start to finish, and I'll never forget it.

It wasn't until some years later.. '96 or '97 I think, that I even found out about LeChuck's Revenge. I got it in the back of a computer gaming magazine on one of those CDs they'd include, as well as a demo for The Curse of Monkey Island. That was a great day. Still have that CD too! :)

[serweet]

A friend loaned me the disks one day at school (along with a photocopy of the code wheel!) and told me it was "like playing a cartoon!" and it made me realize many things, both about what is actually funny, and what a video game was capable of. My love for that game also started a weird chain of events which ended with me here working on the fifth one. So that's kinda crazy.

I bet you never foresaw that back in the day, eh ;)
Must be something insane though, to be contributing to such a series that means a lot to people for various reasons.

[Fed-Up]

Got the demo of Curse of Monkey Island with a computer-magazine. Fell in love then and there;) Must have been in '97 or '98, as we stopped getting the magazine after '98 =P
Must have been only 10 years or so at the time.
Since then I've played all the games. Played SoMI and LeChucks Revenge in '04, when I discovered ScummVM.

[AntR0we]

Two of my friends talked about Monkey Island a lot while they were both trying to complete CMI (they both started on SMI).. they talked about it so much I bought CMI and to this day it's still up there and one of (if not 'THE') best gaming experiences I'd ever had... I went back to get the first two and bought the fourth when it was released.

[psteelnz]

An uncle brought me a box set containing Secret of Monkey Island, Ducktales, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe and The Rocketeer. It came on five and a quarter inch discs. I instantly fell in love with the game! Can't wait for the XBox360 remake to come out!!

[Shanksworthy]

Waaay back in the 80's when I was in grade 8, our computer teacher used to let us bring video games from home to play on the Comodore 64's. One guy brought in the first Maniac Mansion, and I was instantly hooked on Lucasfilm adventure games.

When my dad got the family a Tandy 1000(tm) one year, I got the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade adventure game, then later Zack McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders. Finished and loved both games thoroughly.

When Monkey Island suddenly appeared on my local computer store shelf, my heart almost jumped out of my throat. A new game in the style of those other 3 games I liked (at the time I didn't know they were called 'adventure games') and the box art looked like candy... only problem was, it required 640k an my Tandy 1000 only had 256!

I talked to my dad about it, and it turns out he was just looking for an excuse to upgrade the memory on that thing anyway. So after an annoying ordeal where the local shop tried unsuccessfully a few times to upgrade it, I finally had a computer that could play MI. I unwrapped the game on Christmas day that year, and the rest is history.

[SRTie4k]

I used to subscribe to PC Gamer magazine for a number of years when I was still in middle/high school. Of course I always got the demo disc and played every game they offered on it to see what I liked and disliked. Well they happened to have a demo disc with CMI on it, I played it and liked it a lot. Unfortunately we didn't have internet at the time, and here in Vermont at the time there were practically no places to buy PC games.

Fast forward years later, I just happened to see a copy on the shelf in some store and grabbed it. Played the whole thing threw and then eventually played all of the 1st through from some LucasArts adventure pack (I couldn't find the 2nd game). Then bought EMI when it came out, and eventually, finally got a copy of the 2nd online and finished that.

Moral of the story - demos and demo discs were very important before the internet.

[doodo!]

Down on top of it .....GRRR GRRR

[BJWanlund]

I first came across MI in July or so of 1997, for it was in that time frame that PC Gamer's July 1997 cover story on COMI made me intrigued (BTW, if someone has a PDF of it, or can bug the PCG staff to create eMagazines, I'd greatly appreciate it).

Then, fast-forward to July 2001, and the PCG demo disc that had ALL FULL VERSIONS of games, including SOMI. Played it, loved it, and plan on buying the new XBLA version, and maybe even the new PC version too, I dunno.

BJ

[KB57]

I had played a game called "Red Jack: Revenge of the Brethren" which had some great visuals but was annoying in several ways and the storyline sort of collapsed at the end. I was looking for something better and I think I just googled "Pirate Game" and CMI was what popped up.

[Toothless Gibbon]

How did you come across MI?

How did you know about that?!

:eek:









;)

[Shiversul]

Hahaha

it took me a while, but i eventually got it :P

[Aster]

I was barely old enough to even read when dad started to get games for our brand new computer - SMI being one of them. I'd watch him play and he would have to read out the subtitles for me. I was totally hooked on the story and the humour and by the time Lechuck's Revenge was out I was filling my grade 2 school friends in daily on the story and acting like Guybrush was my personal friend. I didn't actually play a full monkey island game by myself until CM came out, and by then the quirky humour, love for storytelling and attraction to funny slightly awkward men was completely ingrained in me.

[onlyamonkey]

Just played thru myst 3, looked around for some easy downloadable point n click games, found the first two.

[hangedman1984]

I first stumbled across the MI games when I got Lucasarts Archive III for christmas one year, which contained the first 2 and a demo of the 3rd among other games

[PimPamPet]

My dad bought me The Secret of Monkey Island for the Amiga many years ago. Awesome times. Wish I still had my original copy.

[manetheren]

As I was only 3/4 at the time the first two games came out I started on CMI.

My friend had just bought it and I had a go. I was instantly won over by the graphics, the humour and those amazing swirly clouds : )

I only got as far as using the diamond ring on the window before my introductory session ended and I had to go home.
The experience stuck with me and I ended up buying CMI second hand. Soon number 4 came out, which I purchased new, and I ended up downloading the first two games. I was so excited to hear the news of not one but two new MI games this summer

[jortlaban]

A friend of mine had it on his PC (a 386 IBM) and we played it constantly (in GLORIOUS CGA.. :))... Been hooked since. (yes, I'm that "old")

When the game was released in VGA-CD I instantly bought it and all the sequels when they came out.
Even bought the "10 adventures"-collection just for MI2, since my original discs started failing over time.

[Sascha]

The first time I saw one of this wondermachines called PCs was also the first time I played Secret of Monkey Island. It was back in the early 90s when was visiting a friend of mine. We were sitting in front of his fathers PC for hours, trying to accomplish the tasks of the pirates at the Scumm Bar. It took us quite a while... I can't remember if it took days or even weeks.

[Grulien]

I was about 7-8 years old and I was offered this compilation on the Atari ST for Xmas :) Aah, souvenirs!

http://i.ebayimg.com/07/!BS+JeTg!mk~$(KGrHgoH-CYEjlLl9odTBKGEIBI0V!~~_1.JPG

[PimPamPet]

^ Awesome. Do you still have an Atari ST?

[Grulien]

Not anymore...
But I still have the disks and can play the game with an Atari ST emulator :p

[lanze]

My local library let people borrow PC games. One of them was Escape from Monkey Island. I played it when I was about 12 and loved it and discovered there was 3 other games. Hunted them all down on amazon or through Lucasarts (when they still sold some of them), as well as every other adventure game by them.

[onemanandhisdroid]

I think a pal lent his copy to me during the glorious Amiga days. Admittedly the Lucasfilm game that completely knocked me out of my socks was Maniac Mansion though. It was the first. Like that old song goes... the first cut is the deepest. And so on. And so on.


A friend loaned me the disks one day at school (along with a photocopy of the code wheel!) and told me it was "like playing a cartoon!" and it made me realize many things, both about what is actually funny, and what a video game was capable of. My love for that game also started a weird chain of events which ended with me here working on the fifth one. So that's kinda crazy.

If I was writing for a gaming mag, I'd ask you whether I could do a portray of you immediately. That's quite the story! Well it sounds like it from your roundup.

[Armand1880]

When we (my family) got our very first 2X CD-ROM Drive for our Tandy PC on Christmas of 1994 we also got The Secret of Monkey Island, LOOM, and The Secret Weapons of the Luftwafe (all of course from LA). The spirit of the game captured me (by which I of course mean I have been possessed) and never let go. What can I say? :cool:

This is exactly how I got mine. We got our first computer in 1993, with that we got a new CD drive that came with speakers, it was a Sound Blaster package that came with the CD versions of Secret of Monkey Island, Loom (talkie), Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, a car racing game of some kind, and the Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Vol 1 game.
I played Loom first, and then my I saw my father playing MI1, and he let us play the first part with him. I remember one day before school we played it, with him, and we missed the bus because we were trying to figure out how to get into the kitchen of the SCUMM Bar. Memories.
I still have all of those discs, but MI1 and Loom are the two games I play the most still, thanks to Scumm VM

[Guy.brush]

I was in middle school and we went to visit my cousin and her family and she told me I had to play this game and loaded "The Secret of Monkey Island." I talked about it for weeks until she finally called to tell me she had finished all the games in the box. It was some kind of collection with Loom, SOMI, Maniac Mansion and some Indiana Jones game, and told me that I could borrow it. I played all of them too and it was really fun, although difficult to solve some of the puzzles as I was really young. I remember a couple of times I had my mom call her to see what I had to do next. We had to give an instructional speech for my class so I talked about Grog and what it was and how to make Diet Grog from a recipe that was in a Lucasfilm newsletter in that box set. If anyone still has that recipe I would love a copy.

The next year she called me to tell me that she just got MI2 and wanted to know if I wanted to come over and play it with her. I went, but she ended up not waiting for me to play it and beat it without me and let me borrow it. Time passes and I get a car and drive to Best Buy with some friends one day and see on the shelf a box that says, "The Curse of Monkey Island" and instantly scream like a little girl and was excited to see that for a limited time it came with a Monkey Madness CD with the first two games. Now I had all three monkey island games and just thought CMI was the greatest game ever. I remember calling her to tell her I played the third monkey island game and that it was pretty. She couldn't believe it.

Now I had a reliable Internet connection and was researching lots about adventure games and actually new about Escape before it came out. I struggled with the controls and made it to the Monkey Kombat part and had no desire to write down everything so quit it and just replayed it like 2 years ago with a Logitech gamepad that looks a lot like a PS2 controller and it was a much better experience. I can't wait for TOMI and should probably call my cousin to see if she knows about it. I'm also very excited about the SOMI remake and can't wait to see how they do the governor's mansion scene without the verb interface at the bottom of the screen.

[hplikelike]

Saw a poll on Gamefaq.com for best game ever. One option was Secret of Monkey. Wondered what it was. Wikipedia'ed it. Here I am.

[Fury]

I bought CMI, played it, loved it. Then bought collectors edition combo which had all 4, gave duplicate of discs to cousins.

MI3 disc stopped working due to wear and tear, bought another copy of it for $10. Game still gets stalling glitch, and now I'm considering getting a rom and playing it through SCUMMVM again.

And I put MI1 and Mi2 on my DS. They're fun to play on a portable system, even though I've already done the puzzles.

[SurplusGamer]

I remember this very well. A friend of the family wrote a hint section I think for the magazine Amiga Action under the pseudonym 'The Boggit' and I was round his house one afternoon, and it must have been just after MI2 was released because I remember him showing me the lookout scene from the first game and then the scene with Largo on the bridge in the second.

At that point I didn't know what sort of game it was (I assumed I would have to collect stuff and jump on heads like most of the games I had liked up to that point) but I instantly knew that I had to have it. Something about the combination of music, visuals and funny script spoke to me and I knew I had to have it.

Because my mentality back then was that I should get the latest (and therefore best ;) ) game I asked my dad if we could get Monkey Island 2 because I thought that was the one with Largo and the bridge that I liked - but he confused me and (wrongly) said that scene was from MI1, so I ended up getting MI1 after all. That, of course, was the right thing to do because it meant that eventually I got to play all the games in the right order.

[playclever]

Someone lent me the disks for Monkey Island 2 in the playground at school back in 1992. Can't remember who, which is probably a good thing or I'd hunt them down crazy-eyed to thank them, at which point it's all tears and restraining orders. I think it was pirated, he lent me some copied disks and a photocopied code wheel, and then by the time I got onto the third act I'd coaxed my parents into buying me my own copy - it was the second game I owned.

It wasn't my first encounter with MI though... I can remember poring over the back of a MI1 box in a WH Smiths in Guildford in 1991, and I soooo nearly bought it. I still have flashbacks to this day of the five minutes of deliberation that resulted in me missing out on such brilliance for a whole year. At the time though, looking at the box, I had absolutely no concept of how it would play.

[AndyBundy]

I was about 3 to 4 years old when my father had an illegal copy of that game (who hadn't at that time?). I really loved the atmosphere back then. The night was so clear and the glowing circus tent, the Fettucini brothers in their overalls.... awwww beautiful memories.

[Sven_Q45]

Ok, I´ll make it short:
I had my first PC with 8 years. There were much games on it. And for example Dott. And after the years I heard about LucasArts and buy them. And still love them about all other games. Dott ist my favourite. My first MI was MI 2.

[plrichard]

This is exactly how I got mine. We got our first computer in 1993, with that we got a new CD drive that came with speakers, it was a Sound Blaster package that came with the CD versions of Secret of Monkey Island, Loom (talkie), Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, a car racing game of some kind, and the Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Vol 1 game.

This must be how I got mine because I was very young and all I can remember is getting LOOM, Monkey Island, and a Sherlock Holmes CD games all at once. I used to play Monkey Island all the time but was somehow never able to figure out how to deal with the stupid Piranha Poodles...I threw so much meat to them too. Eventually I discovered the beauty of walkthroughs and was able to triumph. Years later, a friend of mine was telling me about this game called "Curse of Monkey Island" and how awesome it was but that he didn't really know what was going on at the beginning of the game. I told him about SMI and we then discovered the Lucas Arts Archive pack which was also bundled with a copy of CMI at the time. We ordered it, shared the Monkey Madness CD for LR. Eventually he bought EMI which I also borrowed in order to complete the series (or so I thought;)).

[raptor]

I was looking at PC video games at the store years ago and saw EMI so I picked it up to see what it was about. It was the most hilarious game I had played so I looked for the other MI games so I could play them too and found a Lucasarts archive that had CMI and the monkey madness cd with a few other adventure games.

[Sven_Q45]

I saw CMI every week when we bought some stuff. And it looked interesting. Don´t ask why I never bought it in the shop. I examined it everytime. :D

[NannerSplit]

Back around 1997 or so (which would have put me around 9 years old at the time), I had this disc of a bunch of demos, several of which were Lucasarts games (I don't think it was a full Lucasarts disc though; I wish I could find it, because I think it was quite a mish-mash). The main reason I played it was because it had the demo for Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 on it, but one day I noticed a demo for a game called The Curse of Monkey Island. I played through the whole demo, and as soon as I finished it I called my dad into the room to play it, and we both loved it. So he went and bought it the next day, and I've been a fan of the series ever since.

[thanatos56]

I got DOTT for Christmas. I loved the puzzles and the humor, because the only types of games I'd played before then were like Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein. Anyway, a few years later, I went online and looked for more games like it and found a demo version of Curse. I played it about 50 times over before it finally came out, and I got it right away. Curse is still my favorite of the series.

[Jexxer]

I don't have any idea how we got the game or what kind of computer we ran it on, but I do remember starting SMI, hearing the music for the first time, and just drinking it in. I was hooked from that moment.

Unfortunately, my older brother lost the game before I was able to finish it. He lent it to one of his friends, who claimed he stepped on the CD and broke it, but I think he really just stole it. Yes, fifteen years later, I'm still upset over this.

[SubSidal]

I learned from a guy in a bar who had a badge saying "Ask me about Monkey Island"... So I asked him. Seriously, my older sister got MI1 and MI2 back in 1992... For me it was love at first click.

[Silverwolfpet]

I was at a friend's place, we were talking about school and the Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis game... when I saw a weeeeird looking disc. (CD)
Never saw a cover so colored before. I asked: "What's this?"
My friend: "Oh, Curse of Monkey Island... just an adventure game".
(at the time I was not disturbed by the "JUST" word related to the MI series)
Me: I see, can you borrow it to me?

After finishing Curse (which took a couple of months), about a year later I stumbled upon an old CD with various old games, including Loom. It was a big list, and my eyes fell upon two titles written one on top of the other: "Secret of Monkey Island" and "Monkey Island 2".
I was like "oookay, what's this? Haven't I allready played the first one??"
Gave it a go and ....melted in the chair while the music emerged from my speakers. (I'm a musician, so it means a whole lot to me...)

That's it :) Then I started hunting for MI4, finished it and...waited for 9 years :)

[purple_monkfish]

My parents were at yet another party, as was often the case during my childhood. Anyway, the person who's house it was (my curtosy uncle) had an office downstairs and had a pirated copy of MI2... I think it was the demo version because I remember being able to simply pick up a crisp white shirt and find the bra instead of going through the whole Mad Marty thing. Anyway, it still had copy protection which was a massive stack of photocopied pages of every... single... variation on the mix'n Mojo disk thing.

Anyhoo, I got fairly far on my own that evening, couldn't work out how to get into the weenie hut though lol. But I fell in love with the game (even if lechuck scared the pants off me)

A few years later, after searching in vain for MI2, we went on a trip to America. In Wallmart... or Kmart... i'm not sure, we found a copy of the Lucasarts Adventure collection, which contained the first MI game. It wasn't particularly expensive by USD standards but remember, we were paying NZ dollars which are worth bugger all. Anyway, my parents gave me some money to buy it and I used my own savings (I also picked up a goosebumps handheld game lol. Awesome)

I still have those disks, though the manual was lost years ago thanks to an ex. I bought a new manual off ebay... yes, just the manual lol. So I could play two of the games that still have copy protection on them.
Unfortunately the box was lost to the ether, which is a shame because the whole collection boxed would be worth a pretty penny. Oh well.

So yeah, that's what got me into Monkey Island. I actually didn't get to play MI2 again for many many years, not till the Bounty Pack came out in fact!!??
Oh it brought back such memories for me.

[purple_monkfish]

I don't have any idea how we got the game or what kind of computer we ran it on, but I do remember starting SMI, hearing the music for the first time, and just drinking it in. I was hooked from that moment.

Unfortunately, my older brother lost the game before I was able to finish it. He lent it to one of his friends, who claimed he stepped on the CD and broke it, but I think he really just stole it. Yes, fifteen years later, I'm still upset over this.

I know your pain! A neighbour nicked my copy of Sam and Max when I was a kid! I was so annoyed. Especially given back then in NZ, there was NO second hand game market and no internet shops, so I couldn't just pop out and buy a new copy. The copy I did have had taken months to track down as it was! We'd missed the launch of the game and I really wanted it because some other game I had contained a demo of it (I honestly can't remember which game though, probably DOTT) and i'd fallen in love. Now, back then, you had about a month to buy a video game before they took it off the shelves and that was that. So we SCOURED the Trade and Exchange (A magazine for people trying to sell their old crud, it had a gaming section which usually contained people trying to offload demo disks hahaha) and after months and months, Sam and Max showed up for sale! We drove across the city to pick it up, I remember that. Dad took me with him.

So yeah, I was pretty gutted to have my game stolen after that. I bought a new copy a few years back when the double pack with DOTT came out. So I have two copies of DOTT, oh well.

[Zoder]

My dad would take me down to CompUSA about once a month to look at all of the computers and games. One time they had the demo version of Secret of Monkey Island playable on the floor. Within 2 minutes I was hooked and we bought the game that same day.

[vacacionero]

1991, a friend of mine and me played SMI in his Amiga 500.
1999, with a lot of effort i've bought a PC and CMI. Later, i've got Monkey 2 and at last, EMI at the day of launch here in Argentina

[DinghyDog]

Around 1995 I had my first PC and it was all DOS. We had there a lot of games, but I remember two: Day of the Tentacle, which is my favorite game of all time, and I remember how I kept playing it over and over, and I even beat it (without a walkthrogh!), and LeChuck's revenge. I didn't played it a lot, and I remember that I was stuck on Scabb Island and never got out of it, probably because my sister didn't play with me like she did with DotT ( english is not my first language, so I didn't understand a word back then).
Then after some years I got a lot of Lucasarts adventure and I played DotT, SMI and LR. I bought CMI a few years ago, and I played EMI too. Since then I played all the games but EMI repeatedly, and now TMI will be added to the list :)

[HyperNexus]

Back in the late 90's, I went over to my best friend's house one day, and he showed me this game he'd been playing recently, The Curse of Monkey Island. We sat down and tackled some puzzles together, and I never could forget that game afterwards. It was just too unique and funny to be forgotten.

[Tea]

My dad had an Amiga which he played the demo on, he bought a PC Gamer magazine which came with a bunch of old games including the "Shareware" (Oh it was totally a mistake that it was the full game) Duke Nukem 2 and the "Demo" Monkey Island.

He showed it to me and I was thrilled with it.

I still have that CD, to this day.

[OzzieMonkey]

One of my friends had Curse, and we played for a while, until we got stuck somewhere on part 2, i think it was getting into the chicken shop (I was about 6 at the time) A few years later, i got a copy of my own from a mate. I played to death, and from then on loved it. i didnt know there were any other MIs at the time, until a kid at school said he had Escape From Monkey Island. I looked it up, and naturally i wanted to get my hands on it. While i was looking for Escape at my local GameTraders, i found the monkey island madness cd, as well as escape. It was the best day of my life! Apart from finding out about TMI.

[octochan]

I was a teen when my dad randomly bought me LucasArts Archives I, with Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, and Sam and Max in it. I played through all of them and loved every one, but it didn't occur to me until years later that LucasArts had other games like them. By the time I did and started looking for them, most of them were hard to find and/or out of print. I managed to snag CMI at a discount electronics store at some point, and eventually got copies of the first to Monkey Island games from some friends. I had to trade a Sherlock Holmes game away for Grim Fandango, but I think it was worth it. And until Telltale came along, I was despairing of ever getting new comedy adventure games to play.

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

My cousin had a 286 and showed me Monkey1 in 1990. Love at first sight.

[Mromson]

Funny story kinda. My mom subscribed to some Top 10 Games magazine shortly after we received our first PC. After 10 shitty games, we cancelled the subscription - though they managed to send us an 11th game: The Curse of Monkey Island.

I fell in love 17seconds into the game. :)

[bangle87]

My family had a lc575 macintosh and there were only about 2 games at the computer store for mac. I got the 3 in 1 mk1 mk2 and fate of atlantis by blowing out my savings for about half a year. I think it cost like $50.

But it last me about 5 years of play because there was no internet to help me out when I got stuck. So I liked to wander around the islands alot and just talk to people for months at a time with out really acomplishing anything.

How was I supposed to know to use a monkey like a wrench on the water fall valve?

[guitarsareboring]

I had a box set for the Amiga 1200 that included Secret and Le Chuck's Revenge plus Maniac Mansion and two others, but I forget which ones now... possibly Zak McKracken

It was Curse that I really fell in love with though. It was absolutely perfect - the dialogue, design, animation, story. Faultless.

[guitarsareboring]

How was I supposed to know to use a monkey like a wrench on the water fall valve?

I know, especially when they're called 'spanners' in the UK!

[Toothless Gibbon]

How was I supposed to know to use a monkey like a wrench on the water fall valve?

Because it is shaped like a spanner / wrench?

[Eduardo]

Erbe published some Lucasarts classics in magazine format in newstands, and SOMI was the first one I bought, IIRC.

And I became addicted to LA adventures... tracking down Zak Mckracken was hard.

[guitarsareboring]

Because it is shaped like a spanner / wrench?

That's all very well but if Guybrush had referenced this in some way it might have been easier! In the US a spanner is called a monkey wrench, am I right? At 11 years old I didn't know this...

[Toothless Gibbon]

That's all very well but if Guybrush had referenced this in some way it might have been easier! In the US a spanner is called a monkey wrench, am I right? At 11 years old I didn't know this...


True, it would have been easier had it been referenced. I was a similar age though and in the UK and although it took ages, I love the puzzle.

A real DOH! moment.

[guitarsareboring]

True, it would have been easier had it been referenced. I was a similar age though and in the UK and although it took ages, I love the puzzle.

A real DOH! moment.

Once you know it's very clever but very very frustrating until that point!

[Mad Mary]

A friend brought me MI 2, ages ago. "You should try this," he said, "you will like it." He was wrong: I *loved* it!

[Vainamoinen]

Secret of Monkey Island: It was my first game for my AMIGA ever. Must have been in the very early 90s, and of course, it was a pirated four-disc-copy with corresponding copied code-wheel, sad to say! It wasn't for another 10 years that I actually knew what the code-wheel actually looked like, when I bought the "LucasArts 10 adventures" which thankfully had the original MI1 and MI2 wheels inside. I really don't remember much about the gaming experience, besides not setting my speakers up right and therefore playing the first few days with only one speaker on. Honestly: Monkey Island sounds totally different that way. ;)

[Cyphox]

MI2 was one of the first games i played on my first PC (386-DX40). It was the first adventure i ever played, too. And i really liked it, hell yeah, i liked it! Got the hole stuff from my uncle. Thanks to him i got into pc-gaming. Thanks to him i work in IT-Business now. God rest his soul!

And yeah, i played MI1 after i played MI2, shame on me...

[guitarsareboring]

Secret of Monkey Island: It was my first game for my AMIGA ever. Must have been in the very early 90s, and of course, it was a pirated four-disc-copy with corresponding copied code-wheel, sad to say! It wasn't for another 10 years that I actually knew what the code-wheel actually looked like, when I bought the "LucasArts 10 adventures" which thankfully had the original MI1 and MI2 wheels inside. I really don't remember much about the gaming experience, besides not setting my speakers up right and therefore playing the first few days with only one speaker on. Honestly: Monkey Island sounds totally different that way. ;)

Wow, whoever copied that code wheel must have been dedicated. Do you remember the Team 17 code booklets? They would have been a bugger to copy!

[Cyphox]

Wow, whoever copied that code wheel must have been dedicated. Do you remember the Team 17 code booklets? They would have been a bugger to copy!

it wasn't really hard to do that, you just had to seperate the two parts, copy them, cut out the little holes for the numbers and put the two parts back together.

i don't know the english word for these brackets (maybe envelope brackets? pack brackets? sleeve braces? i give up....), but they're perfect to replace the thingy in the middle which holds the two parts together :D

http://www.memo.de/dokumente/images/internet/jpeg/ver/klammern.jpg

[Jake]

I had a box set for the Amiga 1200 that included Secret and Le Chuck's Revenge plus Maniac Mansion and two others, but I forget which ones now... possibly Zak McKracken

It was Curse that I really fell in love with though. It was absolutely perfect - the dialogue, design, animation, story. Faultless.

It had LeChuck's revenge as well? Are you sure it wasn't the Classic Adventures Pack which had Monkey 1, Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, Loom, and Indy Last Crusade?

[guitarsareboring]

It had LeChuck's revenge as well? Are you sure it wasn't the Classic Adventures Pack which had Monkey 1, Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, Loom, and Indy Last Crusade?

Yeah, you're definitely right... that's the one. I remember now, I bought LeChuck's Revenge separately!

[broodwars]

Tales of Monkey Island will be my first exposure to the series, as I was a late-comer to the Adventure genre with Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis and Day of the Tentacle. Thankfully, Telltale picked the right game to remake and then make a new series of episodic games for. ^_- Now how about a remake of Sam & Max: Hit the Road (which my best friend played but I never got a chance to)?

[ultima_keyblader]

We was going through a box of old pc games at a friends house he dug out Curse i loved the cartoony style of the box he had only gotten out of le chucks ship and onto Plunder Island. When i eventually got him to turn it on i saw it was a point and click and i loved Broken sword 1 and 2 (had completed them both at the time) i seemed to click to the crazy puzzle style eventually having been used to the saner style of Broken Sword.

i did one of the thing's he was stuck on (cant remember what) he carried on playing after he left i got a copy of his disk (neither of us had the internet to buy it and we were little i own it legally now of course) and we played it together both helping eachother (although i was on mega monkey) and we eventually completed it he got the original 2 i played through both at his place then eventually escape came out i played ps2 he played pc and now here we are both waiting to do it again.