![]() All packed in the same weirdly sized box - but at least it had Steve Purcell’s beautiful cover art on the front. The game disc came in a regular CD jewel case, and the only extra was an undeniably cool “Ask me about Loom” button. The saving grace, if you could call them that, were the retro cartridges/discs and their action-figure-inspired packaging - which had to be purchased separately, for the most part.įebruary saw the release of the first Monkey Island™ by LRG: the original The Secret of Monkey Island™ for… Sega CD? Two editions were available: Classic, with a disc in retro Sega CD packaging and Premium, with, you guessed it, a metal coin, an enamel pin of questionable design, a reversible poster of the same size as the SW ones (18” x 24”), a game manual, a “certificate of authenticity” and three art cards. Then came the somewhat underwhelming (and, in most cases, extremely expensive) SW releases, filled with the same items that have become standard in most LRG collector’s editions: a metal coin, an enamel pin, a reversible poster, a booklet, a “certificate of authenticity” and three art cards, all packed in a weirdly sized box (not the traditional PC “big box”) with very dull artwork. Only a hint of Monkey Island™ was heard, but fans were excited nonetheless. Given that the latest release, Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition, saw the light of day over ten years ago, in July of 2010, no one was expecting the franchise to make a return - that is, until Limited Run Games announced, during their E3 2019 digital event, that they’d be releasing “ definitive Collector's Editions of classic Star Wars games and more” (unfortunately, their blog post with the full lineup has been removed from their website and does not have an archive in the Wayback Machine). Spanning five games (and two remakes), the Monkey Island™ series has captured the imagination of dairy farmers for generations, only to be forgotten by Disney (who acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, alongside LucasArts and all of their IP) and locked away in a vault somewhere (next to all remaining DVDs of Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars). ![]() As many of you probably know, October marks the 30th anniversary of the release of The Secret of Monkey Island™, the beloved adventure game created and designed by Ron Gilbert written and programmed by Gilbert, Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer and published by LucasArts (then, still known as Lucasfilm Games).
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