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Monkey Island: The Deleted Scenes

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:30:00 MST

Movies have deleted scenes, everyone knows that. But it's rare we see deleted game scenes, because they're normally just 1s and 0s, and if they're not in the final game, we don't see them. Unless we're talking Monkey Island!

While working on the recent Special Edition of the game, Lucasarts' Adam Bormann says he had to go back into the code for the original Monkey Island. And while in there, poking around for puzzle AI, he found a ton of content left in the game by its developers, including Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer.

Seems every time the original developers made a change to a puzzle or a piece of dialogue, they simply left the old stuff in the code. So Lucasarts have yanked it all out and posted it. Some of it's all-new content, others added lines to existing chit-chats, but for fans of the series it's all good reading.

Secret of Monkey Island – The Deleted & Extended Scenes [Lucasarts]

Get Tales of Monkey Island Free On Talk Like a Pirate Day

AJ Glasser — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:40:00 MDT

Telltale Games and LucasArts have teamed up to make this year's Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19 — same day as Rosh Hashanah) memorable with a free download of Tales of Monkey Island, Episode One.

The giveaway goes on all day on the 19th, but through the 21st of September, they're also giving gamers %50 off on the iPhone, Steam and Direct2Drive special editions of The Secret of Monkey Island. Hit 'em up here come Talk Like a Pirate Day for the free stuff.

And for the record, I did try to write this entire post in pirate speak, but it caused me physical pain. If you want to take a crack at it below, I'll award 10 to the would-be pirate translator who doesn't make my head explode.

Tales of Monkey Island, Episode Three is on the way September 29.

Secret Of Monkey Island Special Edition Sails To 360?

Mike Fahey — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:20:00 MDT

Both a mysteriously disappearing German rating and sources close to Adventure Gamers seem to indicate that a special edition of The Secret of Monkey Island is on its way to the Xbox 360.

We first caught wind of this via GamerBytes, who managed to snag a picture of the German listing before it was removed from the Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle website. The listing was for The Secret Of Monkey Island - Special Edition, with the system listed as the Xbox 360 and the publisher Activision Blizzard Deutschland GmbH, the European publishing arm for LucasArts.

Adventure game website Adventure Gamers claims that independent sources have already confirmed the existence of the project to them, with a planned revelation during E3 2009 in two weeks.

So what could the special edition tag mean? Is this a completely overhauled HD remake, or just the original title stretched and filtered? Will it be an Xbox Live Arcade title, or a full on Xbox 360 retail release? Does the project even exist?

We've sent out requests for more information to both LucasArts and Microsoft, though if the game is planned as a big E3 reveal, chances we'll get official confirmation before then are slim.

If this turns out not to be a real project, someone needs to get on it immediately. There's a whole generation of gamers who have no idea what game we're talking about, and that needs to be rectified as soon as possible.

Update: As expected, LucasArts doesn't comment on rumors or speculation.

XBLA: The Secret Of Monkey Island Coming To Xbox 360 [GamerBytes]
LucasArts planning Secret of Monkey Island re-release [Adventure Gamers]