Video games were for the vast majority still stored on floppy disks, not cd's. I remember when I got those shiny 11 disks for Monkey 2. (Monkey 1 was on 4)
Excellent point, the CD version of Monkey 1 didn't even come out until 92. I've started putting in more due diligence researching these videos now that I don't try to make them in the span of 3 days.
0:15: Nope. In 1990, computers were running on MS-DOS 4.0, and file names had 8+3 characters, all upper case. And data were not stored on CD-ROMs, but on diskettes. And Star Wars Episode 1 came in 1999.
6:33 The items in the pot aren't random. They are all listed in the journal on board as ingredients for making the magic potion for traveling to Monkey Island, but with a twist. So instead of 1 Pressed Skull it's a skull and cross-bones flag.
That is correct. But basically you throw everything in your inventory into the cauldron. This puzzle would have been better if you had to restart when you use the wrong ingredients.
@@Nikioko I don't remember exactly but you can probably use up items for future alternate puzzle solutions (blowing up the dam) and there's no way to know if doing it wrong might screw you over later. "but that can't happen in Monkey Island!" there's no way people back then knew and I wasn't sure there's NO fail state; and I was right to consider that given I think you can get stuck if you forgot to pick up the lens to give to Wally when you need to show him your map (Captain Dread leaves).
@@RaymondoPerson You can't use up items you need later. For example, you can burn all brochures that Stan gives just, except the one you have to give to the cannibals.
you can't play it with the original graphics and voice acting making this version useless. the remaster characters are really blandly stylized, their level of detail makes the limited animation look incredibly tacky, the color use is significantly worse and they literally used comic sans for stan's sign instead of drawing it by hand. if you want voice acting get the talkie version off archive.org and copy your preferred soundtrack (original cd, remaster) to the main game folder then run the game with scummvm
Video games were for the vast majority still stored on floppy disks, not cd's. I remember when I got those shiny 11 disks for Monkey 2. (Monkey 1 was on 4)
Excellent point, the CD version of Monkey 1 didn't even come out until 92. I've started putting in more due diligence researching these videos now that I don't try to make them in the span of 3 days.
And computers used MS-DOS 4.0, in which files names had only 8+3 characters, with no lower case letters.
Well done. I loved that game back in the day.
1990 Monkey Island on our trusty Amiga.
0:15: Nope. In 1990, computers were running on MS-DOS 4.0, and file names had 8+3 characters, all upper case. And data were not stored on CD-ROMs, but on diskettes. And Star Wars Episode 1 came in 1999.
You've convinced me.
6:33 The items in the pot aren't random. They are all listed in the journal on board as ingredients for making the magic potion for traveling to Monkey Island, but with a twist. So instead of 1 Pressed Skull it's a skull and cross-bones flag.
That is correct. But basically you throw everything in your inventory into the cauldron. This puzzle would have been better if you had to restart when you use the wrong ingredients.
@@Nikioko I don't remember exactly but you can probably use up items for future alternate puzzle solutions (blowing up the dam) and there's no way to know if doing it wrong might screw you over later. "but that can't happen in Monkey Island!" there's no way people back then knew and I wasn't sure there's NO fail state; and I was right to consider that given I think you can get stuck if you forgot to pick up the lens to give to Wally when you need to show him your map (Captain Dread leaves).
@@RaymondoPerson You can't use up items you need later. For example, you can burn all brochures that Stan gives just, except the one you have to give to the cannibals.
The graphics are ugly.
you can't play it with the original graphics and voice acting making this version useless. the remaster characters are really blandly stylized, their level of detail makes the limited animation look incredibly tacky, the color use is significantly worse and they literally used comic sans for stan's sign instead of drawing it by hand. if you want voice acting get the talkie version off archive.org and copy your preferred soundtrack (original cd, remaster) to the main game folder then run the game with scummvm