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We talk to the original creators of Monkey Island about the legacy of the franchise and how that impacted their journey to bring the series back in 2023.
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Edited by Danny O’Dwyer
Filmed by Jeremy Jayne & Danny O’Dwyer
Gameplay Capture by Danny O’Dwyer
0:00 – Intro
2:45 – Part One: Looking Back
16:25 – Part Two: An Unlikely Voyage
24:45 – Part Three: Assembling the Crew
31:24 – Part Four: Building the Game
41:22 – Part Five: Islands & Characters
1:15:34 – Part Six Revealing the Secret
1:28:09 – Epilogue: The Final Chapter
1:34:05 – CREDITS
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Hooray! I was super surprised and happy to see the portraits I made for the Limited Run Games Monkey Island Anthology book make it into the video! Keep up the amazing work!
Couldn't imagine a better ragtag group of pirates to make a Return to Monkey Island documentary. Congrats!!
1:34:05 – CREDITS
– peaceful silence …
1:34:12 – Freaking music scared the living crap out of me
Wish they had kept those extra islands in tbh. I loved the game, but wished it was a bit longer.
Monkey Island!!!
I still have my voiced CD-ROM and box with contents from Lucasfilm for the first game. A new edition to the series is great, but I'm not a fan of the character art. It's just too abstract. The art for "Thimbleweed Park" would have been better. Or, better yet, they should have gotten with Tim Schaefer again and had his fantastic Double Fine Studios do the game in a similar style to that of "Psychonauts". Why didn't they reach out to Tim, anyway? I bet he would have loved to be involved again.
Ever since I played Le Chuck's Revenge with my friend on his older brothers computer as a kid, I've loved these games. They're so funny. I still play through them every few years.
LucasArts games were such a massive influence on me growing up. Every time I hear the Monkey Island theme, I am a teenager lost in the games all over again.
Do I have to play the Monkey island saga in order or it does not matter?
I love your documentaries. Thank you for what you do. Please continue!
Love this. This whole channel is amazing, glad I finally found it <3
when i got to my car after work today and had this notification on my phone, let me tell you it was pure unadulterated joy
I love that I didn't know I got to the very last puzzle in LeChuck's Revenge. Couldn't figure it out. Many years later laughed at the fact I probably just needed to click one more thing to have finished it then.
no effing way you made a doc on my favorite video game series. POPCORN TIME!
After playing through the game, now i want to play cog island. We need DLC!
Bill TIllers art is still the best version of MI
The 3rd was my fave because I loved Murry. He was soo funny I was there for him
Thank you so much Noclip. For me, this came out of nowhere and inspired me a lot. As an avid reader of Ron's blog, I was surprised to hear his voice; It is like seeing your favorite hero on screen for the first time :^)
This video is really important, having these stories to learn from are great for a noob game dev
This was an excellent documentary and I really loved watching it, but there were several mistakes in the subtitles, apparently done by someone who didn't have enough context to know specific terms being used. Please correct this for our Deaf and Hard–of-Hearing friends!
The biggest mistakes I spotted that changed the meanings:
-Every instance of "omega" should be "Amiga"
-"had a bad cartoon" should be "Hanna-Barbera cartoon"
-"Tearaway: A Media Molecule" is written as if it's the full title of the game; it should be Tearaway /at/ Media Molecule, the company that made the game.
-"69 version of a room" should be "16:9 version of a room"
-"Bermuda" should be "Brrrmuda"
-"Inuit and north people" should be "Inuit and Norse people"
-when talking about Cogg Islang, "mist" should be "Myst", referring to the game.
-ending says "no audio" and does not describe the credits song
@53:00 Bro literally stole the plot from Jason X and applied it to monkey island…What a creative genius he is…
1&2 were the best, played them on my Amiga 500 and bought a 2nd FDD just so that I could have the save disk in the drive at all times. 😂
Love hearing every little scrap of info on the development of this wonderful series. Dave and Ron are great.
Woah, I loved Monkey Island.
You know what? You should definitely do a Documentary about Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. I don't know if you played those or if you were a fan but those were pieces of art in my opinion.
ONE MORE TIME – B E S T V I D E O G A M E E V E R M A D E
They brought the story to a deeply resonant close !
Yay!
wow i really wanted them to touch on Escape…as bad as it was i was interested to hear what they thought about it.
I can only speak for myself, but it is powerfully linked to some of the happiest moments in my teenage- years and of course to the AMIGA, which itself went onto to radically alter my life trajectory. The AMIGA is the grounds upon which this industry was born and exploded. A generation of 90s teenagers suddenly found themselves obsessed with video and film production, audio, music, sampling, gaming, deluxe paint and sort of recast their bedrooms as personal studios.
Usher in the birth of wide scale internet adoption, exiting the BBS phase of the modem. My first ever IRC text across the Internet was to a girl in the 'Caribbean Islands' – 1996 😂. ( Hello 'Shanna')
Once in generation technologies and experiences. Incredibly powerful so much so that it has reshaped society.
All of it began in the 1990s A period that is like the embryonic origin of what we see today!
Thanks for another great video.
Love for Ron to speak more on the innumerable points of social commentary in Monkey Islands. It was sort of almost post-modern. Critique of sales, marketing ? Capitalism ?
Wow David Fox has his LightHouse Trackers up 🙂
Monkey Islands VR is one of those ideas that sound amazing, but is completely unrealistic is it
I truly love the franchise, but I can't help to think that RtMI would've been even more loved / successful if it had the same artwork as the special editions of MI 1&2