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Four little pieces of history 🍻

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Aww... that's such a great article:

"...if anything slipped there wasn’t enough time to mail (the master disks). So, we’d drive down to the airport and find a flight headed to London, go to the gate and ask a passenger if they would mind carry the floppy disks for us and someone would meet them at the gate."

😮

Also very happy to read the last part where you doubted if you would ever get to make a third game even though you wanted to, because now we know that you did get to make a third MI in the end and it was a real cracker 🙂

@grumpygamer I guess this is as good time as any to tell you a little story. I just joined a big project and had to have a meeting with bank people (we were going to deal with lots of money, so some proper integration was required). I hate meetings, meetings with suits doubly so.

So I come to the conference room, I'm pre-grumpy, frumpy and tired. You know, a programmer. I sit down, take a look at people from the bank. Suits, smiles, the works. I'm going to hate it here. I pull my laptop from a bag and place it on a desk.

"Ooooh!" — says a man siting vis a vis me — "ain't that Guybrush?" and points to a sticker on my lid. "I fucking love Monkey Island!", he adds.

The meeting went swimmingly.

(I took me too long to find a photo of it)

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Thank you for these really interesting stories in your blog post. 🙂

(And of course, thank you for your work.)

@grumpygamer Monkey Island absolutely changed how I viewed games and software generally. Suddenly, my computer could be beautiful and funny. Not to mention the storytelling was just amazing from start to end.

Thank you so much to the entire team for bringing so much joy to the world.

@grumpygamer happy Goldmaster Day!

I have so many fond memories of playing it. I have played it every couple of years, I think I should play it again soon ❤️

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The CD-ROM edition I played as a kid is still my favourite game experience! I was hooked from the first chords of music and the view of Melee Island, and then immediately got into the introduction of Guybrush’ motives!

@grumpygamer is there a chance I can get hold of those floppies for archival?

(and behold if you try to read them yourself, this brand of floppies are prone to be moldy)

#softwareArchiving #RecoveryWhiskers

@grumpygamer Thanks for the blog! I always love reading about MI.

I thought you made Return to Monkey Island. Was that without IP?

And did you help Craig Thomson? 😁

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This is so cool. I actually finally sat down and played the VGA version of The Secret of Monkey Island... to completion on my real 386 DX 33Mhz like 2 years ago now. I laughed and loved every minute of it. I played the whole game through the span of a weekend. I'm not traditionally a "point & click" kinda guy but this game was so important I just had to and it held up so well. Cheers and thanks for the history.

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I see your four(4) High Density 3-1/2" floppy disks....and raise you eight (8) 5-1/4" actually floppy disks!

I cant recall if these would be from an Amiga 500, or the family's first IBM compatible 386, photo of a set of eight (8) 5-1/4" floppy disks.
Wait, 386. I only recall 3.5" disks with the Amiga 500 we had.
Pirate copy of the best pirate game ever!
Don't curse too much at the fate of diskette number 8... 😩