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"I must have left it in my other pants."

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

"Hi! I'm Guybrush Threepwood! And I'm a mighty pirate!"
"Guybrush Threepwood? What a STUPID name!"
"Well then, what's YOUR name?"
"Why, it's Mancomb Seepgood!"
This kind of witty banter, along with monkeys, grog, voodoo, treasure maps, ghosts, puzzles, and irony, are things you'll find all through the Monkey Island games. You play the role of Guybrush Threepwood, who eventullay becomes a pirate, meets the love of his life, Elaine, as well as his arch-nemesis, LeChuck, and has many other adventures along the way. I won't spoil anymore about these LucasArts gems, except that you have to buy them! Now excuse me, I have to go figure out what's wrong with my computer. I can't play Escape From Monkey Island on it!!!

One of the last great adventure games...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've gotta hand it to Lucas Arts. In every adventure game I've ever played from them (And I'm going all the way back to Maniac Mansion and Zack McKracken for the Commodore 64), there is always at least one thing that really cracks me up. I mean fall on the floor laughing. I dunno what it is, maybe the writers (and these are some of the best written games out there) and I just have the same sense of humor.

I'll never forget Indiana Jones' insistence at sharing his Squab-on-a-stick, or Manny Calavera's "Run, you pigeons! It's Robert Frost!" (Those who have played Grim Fandango might get it).

But, I gotta say, no Lucas Arts game has made me laugh as hard or as often as Curse of Monkey Island. From Wally the failed miniature pirate, to the giant block of Tofu mask, to ... well, I don't want to give it ALL away, but believe me, I lost it quite a few times.

I could go on and on about details, but the long and the short of it is this: Curse of Monkey Island is a clever, well written, hilarious, and beautiful game. I absolutely LOVE the cartoon graphics, and feel they work so much better for this genre than the everpresent 3-D polygonal stuff we're getting now (Grim Fandango notwithstanding). In fact, I may never play Escape from MI just because of that. Call me old fashioned, but if a game plays like being in a cartoon world, it should look like one as well. Except for the gorgeously rendered ships, of course. They're OK. :)

If you've played any of the others in the series, play this one. If not, play this one anyway. I highly recommend it.

Sorry they discontinued

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

These were the best games I've ever played! All three were hilarious with their jokes and puns. I'm only sorry that this item is no longer sold so that other people can't see how Guybrush Threepwood first started.

After all these years, it's STILL around!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: February 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Secret of Monkey Island came out near a decade ago, and it's STILL the same classic it ever was!!

This package comes with all three of the first games to boot, and they truly are a joy to play! Forget smooning over the old graphics. GET OVER IT!!!!! Enjoy it for its humor and charm!! If you can't enjoy it for THAT without overlooking the graphics, then you are S.T.U.P.I.D. beyond comprehension and need to GROW UP.

The Curse of Monkey Island, being the more recent of the three, is more modernized in terms of graphics, along with full voice and music. Remember Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle? Well, maybe you don't. But if you do, you'll definitely see the similarities.

The conversation between Guybrush and Murray the Skull still splits my side even though I've seen it countless times. Murray is by-far the most hilarious character in the game. He's this demonic skull you meet in the beginning of the game that tries *way* too hard to be evil and repulsive.

Monkey 4Ever !!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was just a kid when I played my first adventure game, that game was The Secret of Monkey Island or just Monkey 1. As far as I remember, no other game makes me feel so glad to have a computer ! Since then, I just could not stop to play Monkey Island, so I bought the Monkey 3 and Monkey 4, and finally, after many years, I bought this pearl, the Monkey Island Archives. Monkey is a mix of fun and jokes, and is the only one wich can bring to you the mistery of the Disc 28 and many others ! If you know what I mean, luck you, you are part of the great world of Monkey Island, if you don't, buy it now !

A must-have collection

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The Monkey Island games are outstanding games for anyone to play. They are laugh-out-loud funny, and present the player with some challenging puzzles. The games rely on imagination rather than shoot-em-up gore and lightening reflexes; this makes them appeal to a broad audience. I gave them as a gift to my mom; she played them straight through and is begging for more games like these.

The games in the archive are the first three on the Monkey Island series, and as such show the evolution of the technology. The first two have much earlier graphics and no sound (except for background music). The third has much slicker graphics and audible dialog. These lead up to the fourth (not included in the set), which has 3D graphics.

But don't let the older technology put you off. These are still the best video games ever written, and you'll be missing a great time if you pass them up.

OUTSTANDING GAMES, THE BEST ADVENTURE GAMES EVER MADE

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

BUY THESE GAMES! Give them to your mother, your grandmother, say there joke gifts but whatever you do, get people to play these games, they are some of the best programs that are out. They aren't those sh!tty full violence games where you point a gun at someones head and spill their guts over the floor. This has no heavy hard-core violence. Its really funny for kids, and really puzzling for adults because it comes with an easy and hard mode. Get these games, you'll never regret it. The only thing is that you might have some compatibility issues with newer operating systems with the first two games, but I have windows ME and I was able to get it to work. I'm telling you again, buy these games.

TREMENDOUS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The most important thing i have to say about this game is.......Wow. This is a mind boggling... laughing adventure game of where guybrush threepwood has many adventures... of which im not telling you about because i dont want to ruin it.

If you ever meet a person that doesnt give monkey island a 5 star, tell them they have no sence of humor. This is the best game ever. Ever. Nothing comes close. I spend hours on the internet looking for things about it. I dream about it. I am the greatest fan, and i am now asking you to be my rival. Buy this game now and drastically change your life for the better. Love, Chris Hanson

Sound Problems

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Newer computers have a hard time running these old DOS games, but there's a simple way to fix it.

For Monkey Island 1, you need to have your cd-rom hooked up to your soundcard. If you can play music cd's from your computer, then you should be able to get sound from monkey island 1.

Monkey Island 2 was not reprogrammed to use the cd soundtracks and you may not hear any sound. You need to copy the contents of the monkey island 2 folder from the cd to your hard drive. Right click on the ms-dos shortcut entitled monkey2 and go to properties. Uncheck the box read-only. Then go to the "program" tab and in the "cmd line" textbox it should say Monkey2.exe. There are three flags you can enter after monkey2.exe: a, r, or i (example: monkey2.exe i). These flags tell the program what soundcard to use. Use "a" if you have an adlib or soundblaster compatible card. "r" if you have a roland sound card. Or "i" for your computer's internal speaker, which sound like beeps when your computer boots up. On my pentium 4 with a soundblaster live! I couldn't get the sound to work with the "a" flag but the "r" flag and "i" flag worked. But on my pentium 3 with a generic soundcard the "a" and "i" flag worked but the "r" flag didn't. Play around and see which one works for you. The music doesn't sound very smooth because your soundcard is only emulating the old soundcards, but at least you can hear that cool monkey island music whilst playing the game.

Also, you can listen to the cd on your cd player. But skip track one, it's the game data.

Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Im a major MI fan (i spent a lot of time tracking down all the games- had no idea it was on amazon :() Anyway, i'll review one at a time:

1: My first video game. It is witty, charming, and kid appropriate. After playing, i couldnt WAIT to see if they would release other games, and maybe even a movie!

2: A very nice sequel, and while it relates to number one, its ok to play without playing the first.

3: By far my favorite, this is the funniest. The grapics have really evolved, and insult swordfighting is back (you fight like a cow!)

By far one of the best game series ever. I'll go rate 4 now...

p.s GET THIS FOR YOUR KIDS FOR CHRISTMAS!

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