The Secret of Monkey island 2, now there's a game. I used to enviously read reviews of it in computer games magazines when I got my first PC and wonder what it would be like to play. Now, thanks to an MS DOS emulator I am happily clicking away at it before bed every night and it is every bit as good as I imagined it would be as a teenage sadcase. You can get all sorts of old PC computer games (known as abandonware) here. In addition to Monkey Island 2, Ultima VII, Betrayal at Krondor and Tie Fighter are swarming around the bloated spectacle of my work like flesh-eating insects. I discovered abandonware at an unfortunate point in my write up.
Speaking of computer games, Vinny, the bespectacled uber-gamer of Adebisi Shank and Vinny Club fame, writes an excellent blog about them here. Vinny will also be DJing at Soundcheck in Spy on Thursday night along with part-time compost-heap monkey Lolo. She promises to play Japanese Pop, and I'll make an educated guess that Vinny will be playing snippets of Hulk Hogan's Hulkamania album through a rewired Atari 7800.
If you like Irish music and are looking for an excuse to get out of the shitty city centre this weekend I'd advise heading out to the Purty Loft in Dun Laoghaire this Friday night (24th). There will be a sort of cross border music magazine night organised by AU and State. This will be the first of a series of nights cross-pollinating music north and south through the medium of inter-band group sex (I jest). The next will be in Laverty's Attic, Belfast on May 1st.
It kicks off at 8pm and features Alphastates, Villagers, So I Watch You From Afar, State and AU magazine DJs. All for ten euro and all until 2.30am. Class, no?
4/21/09
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The Secret of Monkey island 2, now there's a game. I used to enviously read reviews of it in computer games magazines when I got my first PC and wonder what it would be like to play. Now, thanks to an MS DOS emulator I am happily clicking away at it before bed every night and it is every bit as good as I imagined it would be as a teenage sadcase. You can get all sorts of old PC computer games (known as abandonware) here. In addition to Monkey Island 2, Ultima VII, Betrayal at Krondor and Tie Fighter are swarming around the bloated spectacle of my work like flesh-eating insects. I discovered abandonware at an unfortunate point in my write up.
Speaking of computer games, Vinny, the bespectacled uber-gamer of Adebisi Shank and Vinny Club fame, writes an excellent blog about them here. Vinny will also be DJing at Soundcheck in Spy on Thursday night along with part-time compost-heap monkey Lolo. She promises to play Japanese Pop, and I'll make an educated guess that Vinny will be playing snippets of Hulk Hogan's Hulkamania album through a rewired Atari 7800.
If you like Irish music and are looking for an excuse to get out of the shitty city centre this weekend I'd advise heading out to the Purty Loft in Dun Laoghaire this Friday night (24th). There will be a sort of cross border music magazine night organised by AU and State. This will be the first of a series of nights cross-pollinating music north and south through the medium of inter-band group sex (I jest). The next will be in Laverty's Attic, Belfast on May 1st.
It kicks off at 8pm and features Alphastates, Villagers, So I Watch You From Afar, State and AU magazine DJs. All for ten euro and all until 2.30am. Class, no?
The Secret of Monkey island 2, now there's a game. I used to enviously read reviews of it in computer games magazines when I got my first PC and wonder what it would be like to play. Now, thanks to an MS DOS emulator I am happily clicking away at it before bed every night and it is every bit as good as I imagined it would be as a teenage sadcase. You can get all sorts of old PC computer games (known as abandonware) here. In addition to Monkey Island 2, Ultima VII, Betrayal at Krondor and Tie Fighter are swarming around the bloated spectacle of my work like flesh-eating insects. I discovered abandonware at an unfortunate point in my write up.
Speaking of computer games, Vinny, the bespectacled uber-gamer of Adebisi Shank and Vinny Club fame, writes an excellent blog about them here. Vinny will also be DJing at Soundcheck in Spy on Thursday night along with part-time compost-heap monkey Lolo. She promises to play Japanese Pop, and I'll make an educated guess that Vinny will be playing snippets of Hulk Hogan's Hulkamania album through a rewired Atari 7800.
If you like Irish music and are looking for an excuse to get out of the shitty city centre this weekend I'd advise heading out to the Purty Loft in Dun Laoghaire this Friday night (24th). There will be a sort of cross border music magazine night organised by AU and State. This will be the first of a series of nights cross-pollinating music north and south through the medium of inter-band group sex (I jest). The next will be in Laverty's Attic, Belfast on May 1st.
It kicks off at 8pm and features Alphastates, Villagers, So I Watch You From Afar, State and AU magazine DJs. All for ten euro and all until 2.30am. Class, no?
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Monkey Island 2 was simply amazing, ending was horrible tho. I think I played Sam and Max: Hit The Road straight through at least 6-7 times in my lonely youth. Have you played "Beneath a steal sky"? It's abandonware and one of the best adventure games of that era.
I need to download Paperboy. No idea why, I just do.
While 'The secret of monkey island 2' is good, it doesn't compare to 'Granny's Garden' I used to play on the school's computer. And if an ms-dos emulator harms your Phd then I shouldn't direct you to a NES, SNES or Mega Drive games emulator. Streets of Rage used to consume my lunch break in work.
thank you thank you thank you, I cannot wait to get home........bubble bobble here I come.
@Tom ah fuck the ending is shit? Sure playing it is so rewarding i don't that much about ending anyway. I'm currently island-hopping in chapter 2. Just managed to win a ticket to a costume party. The puzzles are very logical compared to some point and clicks, but a bit fierce. I may need to hit a walkthrough in a moment of weakness.
@Adam and why not? I downloaded it after reading your comment cos i never played it. Without the nostalgia factor that you obviously have for it, I must say, I didn't like it. Frogger on a BMX with added throwing.
@Digital watermark. Your comment about granny's garden stirred a sort of Proustian response in me. I think I solved it in 5th class. I'm afraid to look it up now in case it brings back a flood of repressed memories to do with child abuse and torture. I grew up in Kells.
@Red Leeroy. Ah bubble bobble. I was actually good at that. I could never get near it's cousin puzzle bobble in our local arcade at lunch time 'cos it was a big hit with the hardcore hash and mitching brigade. Both games fall into the 'looks effortless until you try it and fail miserably in front of a bunch of pimply hash-heads a year older than you' category.
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