Retronauts Episode 260: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
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🗓️ 18 November 2019
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Our informal LucasArts miniseries rolls on with another episode exploring the developer's adventure game output! This time, we focus on 1991's Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, the second entry in the Monkey Island series, and one that marked the departure of creator Ron Gilbert from LucasArts. Though it only came one year after the original game, LeChuck's Revenge expands on this formative adventure in some big, bold ways, and still remains an incredibly impressive showpiece—in terms of both design and production values—nearly 30 years later. On this episode, join Bob Mackey, Jeremy Parish, and Fangamer's Nina Matsumoto as the crew journeys off to find Big Whoop and discovers the real treasure was the filthy lucre they found along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on RetroNots we sit in our screaming chairs. |
| 0:26.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of RetroNots. |
| 0:28.2 | I am your host for this one Bob Mackie and today's episode is all about Monkey Island 2, |
| 0:32.5 | Le Chux Revenge. And in case you missed our past episodes on LucasArts Adventure games, |
| 0:37.6 | I am doing an informal mini-series about all of them not in any order just depending on who I can get |
| 0:44.0 | and whatever we're doing at the time, whatever is most convenient. But we're going to go through |
| 0:46.8 | them all even the bad ones. But today we're doing a really really good one, Monkey Island 2, |
| 0:50.7 | Le Chux Revenge, 1991's Monkey Island 2. Before I go on any further, who is our special guest today, |
| 0:57.2 | right across from me here? Hi it's Nina Matsumoto. I was on the secret of Monkey Island episode. |
| 1:02.4 | That's right that was just a few months ago. So as of this recording, there has been one about the |
| 1:06.7 | secret of Monkey Island. There was one about Lume and I probably won't redo Maniac Mansion because |
| 1:11.6 | I did a very long episode about that maybe in like 2016 or 2015. So it's never too early to redo. |
| 1:17.6 | I got away at least five years, five whole years. But yes, who was just talking on the microphone there? |
| 1:24.1 | Hi, I'm Jeremy Parish and I started my day by playing Bubsy on Atari Jaguar. So I'm ready to |
| 1:31.5 | talk about some good video games. You flew all the way out here to play Bubsy? I did. That's |
| 1:35.4 | I was confusing. How do you have access to Bubsy here? So a few months ago, my friends who live in |
| 1:41.2 | Elimita, I tend to stay with them a lot when I travel here. One of my friends was out walking her |
| 1:47.5 | dog and she saw this stack of video game system boxes and she sent me a photo and was like, |
| 1:52.8 | hey, would any of this stuff interest you? And I said, holy crap, yes. Like there's a Jaguar |
| 1:57.7 | complete in box. That's like a three or four hundred dollar system these days. So she grabbed them |
| 2:02.2 | and took them home and now that I'm here again, I bought a copy of Bubsy because I thought, what is |
| 2:08.0 | the most iconic and you know, like just perfect thing to pair with an Atari Jaguar? Of course, |
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