Adventure-Games on It's a Binary World 2.0 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/tags/adventure-games/ Recent content in Adventure-Games on It's a Binary World 2.0 Hugo en Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:01:45 +0000 The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2011/02/01/the-secret-of-monkey-island-special-edition/ Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:01:45 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2011/02/01/the-secret-of-monkey-island-special-edition/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericsbinaryworld/2773491484/" title="Treasure Island Stripper Ship by DJOtaku, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3037/2773491484_465408219c_m.jpg" alt="Treasure Island Stripper Ship"></a></p> <p>As with <a href="https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2011/01/27/recettear-first-impressions/">my discussion of Recettear</a>, playing The Secret of Monkey Island involved revisiting a gaming genre from my past.  Unlike Recettear, TSoMI is not a parodic look back at an old genre, it is an original game from that time period.  TSoMI is an adventure game, a genre that is pretty much only kept alive through the LucasArts Telltale Games ( <em>edit: thanks for the fix, Dan</em>) who is re-releasing old games like the Monkey Island series, publishing new takes on old games like Monkey Island, Sam and Max, and publishing completely new games like Back to the Future.</p>

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