Tag: The Secret of Monkey Island

Vince Weaver was already news here on ViTNO when he showed us the excellent Myst demake for the Apple II using double lores graphics. Now he has done again, releasing an impressive proof of concept of The Secret of Monkey Island running on the same Apple II computers. It all started when Vince decided to play the Secret of Monkey…

Daniele Spadoni is an independent filmmaker and director living in Ferrara, north of Italy. He has made a good number of video productions, making some of them available on YouTube. A few days ago, Daniele reached us through our Facebook page, linking some video with titles that caught my attention right away. Superfrog, Manic Mansion, and Secret of Monkey Island are a…

Every now and then, during our daily visits to CSDb we happen to see some nicely done graphics, demos, games, or music. Today I was happy to see this graphics + music homage to the newly released game Thimbleweed Park created by Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion, Secret of Monkey Island). The program made for the Commodore 64, which can be also…

The Digital Antiquarian is back with a new article where he discusses one of the best adventure games ever made (the best in my opinion!), The Secret of Monkey Island by Lucas Film, and created by Ron Gilbert. Entitled “Monkey Island (or, How Ron Gilbert Made an Adventure Game That Didn’t Suck)” the article goes back and forth with historical data…