The Secret of Monkey Island

created and published by Lucasfilm Games in 1990, running on Amiga OCS

type: adventure
genre: Point-and-click adventure
series: The Monkey Island
setting: Early modern
perspective: 3rd person
player options: single player

game engine: SCUMM
languages: eng fre ger

4.5/5

Lemon Amiga

Personal review

Very good version of Lucas Arts first game in the Monkey Island series. Genuinely funny dialogue and memorable characters with nice graphics and music. One of the few games that didn't lose its special appeal even after 20 years and won't do so for another 20 years.

teran01 # 2011-04-17 15:21:38

Official description

I cursed my luck again as I slid down the monkey's throat. Have my dreams of guzzling grog and plundering galleons been reduced to this? "Three small trials and you're a pirate like us," they said. Fair enough. If only I could stomach the foul brew these scurvy seadogs swilled, the rest would be easy. How could I have known I'd meet a powerful and beautiful woman with a jealous suitor too stupid to realize he'd been dead for years? And how can I crawl through this great stone monkey to find a man who walks three inches above the ground and sets fire to his beard every morning?

• Eye-gouging 3D graphics.
• Ear-piercing reggae music.
• No typing - point 'n' click interface.
• Relentless jabs, and cryptic in-jokes only smart people will understand.
• Average playing time: 30 hours.

# 2024-04-30 19:53:01 - official description

Technical specs

software: SCUMM,

display: raster

Project team

graphics

Avril Harrison (graphician)
Bill Eaken (graphics)
Ian McCaig (graphician)
James Alexander Dollar (graphician)
Jim McLeod (graphician)
Martin Cameron (graphician)
Michael Ebert (graphician)
Michael Stemmle (graphician)
Sean Turner (graphician)
Tami Borowick (graphician)
William L. Eaken (graphician)

audio

Andy Newell (musician)
Barney Jones (musician)
Chris Hülsbeck (musician)
Michael Z. Land (musician)
Patrick Mundy (musician)
Rudolf Stember (musician)

other

Aaron Muszalski (misc)
Ari Hollander (misc)
Boris Schneider-Johne (misc)
Dave Grossman (misc)
Lucasfilm (misc)
Noah Falstein (misc)
Orson Scott Card (misc)
Randall Mage (misc)
Steve Purcell (box art)
Tim Schafer (misc)

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External reviews (20) - average: 88.4% - median: 90%

review source		issue	date	score
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	uk	46	1991-07	922/1000	92%	view
Aktueller Software Markt (ASM) (9+)	de	49	1991-02	11/12	91%	view
Amiga Action	uk	21	1991-06	90/100	90%	view
Amiga Action	uk	51	1993-12	90/100	90%	view
Amiga Computing	uk	38	1991-07	90/100	90%
Amiga Computing	uk	67	1993-12	92/100	92%
Amiga Force	uk	16	1994-03	88/100	88%
Amiga Format	uk	23	1991-06	92/100	92%
Amiga Format	uk	53	1993-12	90/100	90%
Amiga Joker	de	13	1991-01	93/100	93%	view
Amiga Magazin (24+)	de	43	1991-02	109/120	90%	view
Amiga Power	uk	2	1991-06	90/100	90%
Amiga Power	uk	32	1993-12	75/100	75%
CU Amiga	uk	14	1991-04	86/100	86%	view
Génération 4 (001-082)	fr	34	1991-06	95/100	95%
Joystick	fr	18	1991-07	90/100	90%
The One Amiga	uk	60	1993-09	91/100	91%
The One for Amiga Games	uk	33	1991-06	92/100	92%	view
Tilt 39-113	fr	93	1991-09	14/20	70%
VideoGames & Computer Entertainment	us	27	1991-04	8/10	80%	view