Retronauts Episode 244: The Secret of Monkey Island

Retronauts

Technology, Leisure, Video Games, Games

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Now that Retronauts has transitioned to deep dives of single titles over the past few years, it's about time to focus on a genre we rarely touch: adventure games. That said, this marks the beginning of a limited series where I (Bob) will be covering the entire LucasArts adventure library—one game per episode—hopefully with new and/or rare guests.

Since I'm not covering these games in any particular order, there's no better place to start than The Secret of Monkey Island, the release that would define LucasArts' house style for its remaining decade of adventure game output. And there's no better guest than Monkey Island superfan Nina Matsumoto (of FanGamer and Sparks fame), someone who's loved the series since 1990 and even created the cover art for Ron Gilbert's latest adventure game, Thimbleweed Park! So join us as we enter the world of corrosive grog, rubber chickens with pulleys in the middle, and insult sword fighting and jump back in time nearly 30 years to explore a game that launched a much-beloved series.

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0:57.4	Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of RetroNots.
0:59.6	I am your host for this one Bob Mackie.
1:01.2	In the topic this week is the Secret of Monkey Island, the 1990 classic LucasArts point and click adventure game.
1:08.4	Now, we have a special guest in the show.
1:10.4	I'm going to have her hold her horses briefly while I explain what I'm doing with this topic.
1:14.6	I'm kind of doing an informal series on all of LucasArts games, not necessarily in order,
1:19.8	but I've always wanted to do sort of a deeper dive on each of the entries in the LucasArts catalog.
1:24.8	And I'll be doing that hopefully throughout the next year.
1:27.2	I want to hit all of them from the very first one, which is Labyrinth, the last one,
1:31.8	which I believe would be the escape from Monkey Island.
1:35.2	There might be one more I'm forgetting about, but I don't think so.
1:37.4	I should know my facts better, but I am prepared for the rest of this podcast.
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