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Monkey Island Creator Ron Gilbert Is Working On A Zelda-Style RPG Adventure

Time Extension about 6 days ago

"Classic Zelda meets Diablo meets Thimbleweed Park".Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert is working on a new game which takes inspiration from the likes of Zelda, Diablo and Thimbleweed Park.The currently untitled RPG has been in development since the start o …

PC 486SX (ao486) • Help using MT-32 pi with Monkey Island

MISTerFPGA about 1 month ago

Hi - have recently set up a mister and been enjoying it immensely. Have set up multiple console and computer cores. Have an MT-32 pi as well that works great in all ao486 games that support it … except Monkey Island. The MT-32 doesn’t seem to be wo …
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Monkey Island Voice Actress Explains Her Sea Of Thieves Absence

Time Extension about 1 month ago

Elaine Marley was recast in the 2023 expansion.If you're a Monkey Island fan who played last year's Sea of Thieves' expansion Sea of Thieves: The Legend of Monkey Island, you may have noticed that the original voice actress for Elaine Marley, Alexandra Boy …
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A Bunch Of Amazing Point N' Click Adventure Games Are On Sale On GOG

Time Extension about 1 month ago

There are some incredible deals on games both old & new.A huge selection of adventure titles — both old & new — are now on sale on GOG as part of its "Point, Think, Click!" event.The event, which kicked off yesterday, features 12 pages worth of dea …

Amiga (Minimig) • How do I add new Amiga configs?

MISTerFPGA about 2 months ago

I mainly bought my Mister FPGA for Amiga emulation. Up till now I have only used it with AmigaVision but I am now looking to get a simpler setup that is more in line with how I used my Amiga A500 back in the day.I notice that with installing AmigaVision I …

PC 486SX (ao486) • 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released

MISTerFPGA about 2 months ago

Another DOS game collection? Why not! This one has a slightly different focus than Exo/Flynn, and DOSContainer projects.We originally published the “Special Sauce v0.0.1” collection a little while ago, and Limi (of AmigaVision fame) reached out to say …

PC 486SX (ao486) • Special Sauce MiSTer FPGA DOS Game Collection

MISTerFPGA about 3 months ago

Another game collection? Sure why not. I thought I would see what I could learn by tweaking all these games to run on MiSTer FPGA.Why this collection? Well it's not for everyone. The idea was to make a "booter" version of a top games collection where …

Point and Click Adventure Games from the late 90's

VCFed about 3 months ago

I remember fondly several from this erra and early 2000's. SIERRA had many, kings quest, space quest, leisure suit Larry to name some. Lucas Arts, Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island and more Cinemaware, Rocket Ranger, Wings, it came from the desert, more The L …
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Monkey Island Is The Next Classic Game Series To Get A Noclip Documentary

Time Extension about 3 months ago

The documentary is out now on YouTube.Update : And just like that, it's out! You can watch the full documentary now on YouTube. So grab some popcorn, pop your feet up, and relax as Noclip takes you back to Monkey Island.Original Story : The video game docu …
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Random: We Need This Fanmade Monkey Island LEGO Set To Be Real

Time Extension about 4 months ago

"That's the second biggest LEGO Monkey Head we've ever seen!".If you're a fan of Lego, you've probably heard of the website Lego Ideas by now, but just in case you haven't we'll give you a quick recap.It's a place where people can go to submit their fanmad …
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Anniversary: Classic LucasArts' Adventure Game Grim Fandango Turns 25 Today

Time Extension about 7 months ago

"Run you pigeons! It's Robert Frost!".LucasArts' classic 3D adventure game Grim Fandango was released 25 years ago today on Friday, October 30th, 1998 for Windows PCs.The game was the first LucasArts title to be developed using the GrimE engine (instead of …
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Ron Gilbert Isn't Convinced A Monkey Island Movie Would Work

Time Extension about 9 months ago

Worries Guybrush would become "too much of a buffoon".Video game film adaptations are coming thick and fast at the moment, but Monkey Island's creator Ron Gilbert has stated during a recent panel at Devcom that he isn't necessarily convinced the game would …
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Video Game Trading Card Spotlight #300 – Paul Monaghan

Old School Gamer Magazine about 9 months ago

THIS IS MY 300TH TRADING CARD SPOTLIGHT! Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Paul Monaghan, displayed on card number 4277, from the Superstars of 2023. Co-founder of the Maximum Power Up podcast, which was started in 2015, Paul has had a passion for …
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Episode 112 - Tim’s MiSTer Multisystem Review + PHAT Turkeys - Battle Of The 8 Bit Batman Games (NES vs PC Engine)

Pixel Gaiden Gaming Podcast about 9 months ago

We're back for Episode 112! In this episode Cody and Eric catch up on the news +  Battle Of The Systems: 8 Bit Batman games (NES and PC Engine) We are doing news for the first monthly episode and then "catching up" later in the month.   Episode Guide - …
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A Vampyre Story Gets Unexpected Update Almost 15 Years Later

Time Extension about 9 months ago

New languages, bug fixes, and more!If you're a fan of LucasArts adventure games, there's a chance you may have heard of Bill Tiller. Tiller was the background artist on The Curse of Monkey Island and later went on to found the adventure game company Autumn …

Sound • Issues with an AWE32 CT3990

Vogons about 10 months ago

I just bought a PC Retro in parts, and I acquired a 486DX2 at 66MHz along with an AWE32 CT3990. When I try to run games like Monkey Island 1 or 2, I activate AWEUTIL /EM:GM or /EM:MT32, it loads perfectly, everything seems okay, but the game has no sound, …

Sound • First Roland Sound Generator - need help with connections to PC

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi,I went all out and bought a lot of stuff which is tricking in. I think I have the components to actually get a game working, but before I start plugging wires in, I wanted to check with the experts. What I have:1.) An IBM 350 with ISA Slots, 486/DX2 …

General Old Hardware • Yet Another Win95/DOS Build – Socket 7 – Suggestions Wanted

Vogons about 11 months ago

I’m looking at building yet another Windows 95 / DOS machine, but unlike my Mini-ITX version, this one will not have any size restrictions and be more “era appropriate”. All I want to do it keep it as affordable as possible, and maintain as much com …
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On the Retro Radar for July 2023

Retro Arcadia about 11 months ago

Time for our regular roundup of the mostly (but not strictly) retro-interest games releases on the way for the coming month, with trailers for everything, and if you’re lucky, a few snippets of fascinating information too! We had a load of proper heavyw …
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[F256K] Living Worlds

Tinker Different about 11 months ago

Artist: Mark Ferrari (of Secret of Monkey Island, LOOM, etc. fame) Coder: HaydenKale (aka clandrew) Source and github: ... - clandrew/livingworlds: Color cycling demo based on Mark Ferr …
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Historic Monkey Island Fangame Gets Translated Into English For The First Time

Time Extension about 11 months ago

'The Secret of Donkey Island' was released back in 1994.A group of MS-DOS fans have got together to translate the Czech Monkey Island fangame, The Secret of Donkey Island, into English for the very first time, on account of its 29th anniversary.The transla …

General Old Hardware • ISO on\for DOS?

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi all ? there is a question that always been inside me, but never properly asked for: I have some, lot of games for DOS that requires a CD for play (Monkey Island, Full Throttle, The Dig, Timegate, FIFA 96 ecc.) but unfortunately I only have ISO images …

Monkey Island Creator Clarifies Comments On Sea Of Thieves Expansion

Time Extension about 11 months ago

"I wish the game well".Update : Terrible Toybox's PR representative has reached out to Time Extension to clarify Ron Gilbert's comments on the forthcoming Sea of Thieves expansion, The Legend of Monkey Island:Regarding your Sea of Thieves Monkey Island sto …

Website Discussions • Should the default number of votes needed for the top 100 be higher than 50?

LemonAmiga about 11 months ago

As so many games now have hundreds of votes (Monkey Island has 600, and several others over 400, and almost all the top 30 or so at least 200 votes), I don't think 50 is enough to belong on the default elite list. Set it top 100 and everything still avera …
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Episode 92 - What’s a Walk-A-Bout Shmup?! - Battle Of The Systems - Gun.Smoke (NES) vs Elemental Master (Genesis)

Pixel Gaiden Gaming Podcast about 2 years ago

We're back for Episode 92! In this episode Cody and Eric catch up on the news +  Battle Of The Systems - Gun.Smoke (NES) vs Elemental Master (Genesis) We are doing news for the first monthly episode and then "catching up" later in the month.   Episode …