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Retronauts Episode 390: Tales of Monkey Island

Retronauts

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Nearly a decade after the last entry, Telltale Games launched Tales of Monkey Island, an episodic take on the classic adventure series—and the first installment in nearly 20 years with input from creator Ron Gilbert. And while it suffers from some of the drawbacks of Telltale's format, this five-chapter adventure game swerves away from the expected formula to deliver some truly memorable Monkey Island moments. On this episode, join Bob Mackey and Nina Matsumoto as they explore the final stop on our tour of the Monkey Island series.

And be sure to pre-order Nina's newest graphic novel, Sparks: Future Purrfect!

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0:00.0

RetroNots is part of the Greenlit Podcast Network.

0:03.2

For more information, please go to GreenlitPodcasts.com.

0:07.4

This week on RetroNots, we've got the pox of LeChuck and the only cure is more Monkey Island.

0:34.1

Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of RetroNots. I'm your host for this one Bob Mackie,

0:39.1

and right now we are doing another episode in our LucasArch retrospective mini-series,

0:43.6

and we're heading towards the end of this. There's still a few more games left,

0:46.9

but this is technically a LucasArch game, and it's definitely a Monkey Island game, and yes,

0:51.3

we're returning once again to Monkey Island, and who is here with me today to talk about this

0:54.9

beloved series? That sounds like something my husband might say. It's me, Nina Matamoto.

0:59.8

Were you quoting Monkey Island there? Yes, I was.

1:02.8

Okay, I don't remember that quote at all. Oh, it's at the very end of Secret of Monkey Island.

1:08.4

It's one of the things you can say. No, it's not one of the things Elaine says at the very end of

1:13.3

Secret of Monkey Island. You know, remember I mean they're like watching the fireworks,

1:17.2

and you get to say something as guibrish like don't pay more than 20 bucks for it,

1:20.5

and then game or computer game, and then whatever you say, she says that sounds like something

1:24.3

my husband would say. That game was about 300 podcasts ago for me, so I pushed that out of my brain.

1:30.0

They keep this in this game. Really? Okay, interesting. I guess we'll get to it, but thank you for

1:35.9

making me look a bit fairly bad in foolish up front with my lack of knowledge. But yes,

1:41.0

we're going to talk about this beloved series, the final entry in Monkey Island, which is Tales of

1:46.4

Monkey Island, and the last one we did in this series, well, we've done other LucasArts games in

1:51.7

the series. I think the last one that we covered was the Dig, and yeah, the last Monkey Island game

1:57.4

we covered since we're going in order was Escape from Monkey Island, and it was so bad that we

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