General
Travel
Hockey
Technical
Gaming
Catalogue
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Video Games
Stats
Pages
Travel Plans
Live Music
Phone History
Things to Do
Links
About
Blog Archive
Current Blogs
June 2011 (1)
January 2011 (1)
2010 (18)
2009 (28)
2008 (25)
2007 (67)
2006 (23)
2005 (32)
2004 (10)
Blog Tags
General
10 in '10 (4)
Books (1)
DVDs (3)
Funny (13)
Gadgets (5)
Hawt (1)
Movies (14)
Music (7)
Pets (4)
Recipe (16)
Running (3)
TV Shows (2)
Web (29)
Travel
Calgary (2)
Edmonton (12)
Kuala Lumpur (1)
New York (7)
Niagara Falls (2)
Phuket (2)
Pittsburgh (5)
Washington (4)
Hockey
Pittsburgh Penguins (25)
Technical
.NET (3)
Java (4)
Software (3)
Work (2)
Gaming
Commodore 64 (2)
Master System (1)
Mega Drive (1)
Rock Band (1)
Xbox 360 (16)
XNA (1)
The rarely updated blog of Joel Dixon
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 21/07/2009 20:33:28I don't blog about Xbox games anymore (or anything else for that matter) - but I wanted to make a quick mention of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition. I never got to play the original game back in the day - as our family didn't get a computer until later. So I'm happy to be experiencing this classic game in the comfort of my living room couch. The graphics and music has been all re-mastered, and all dialog is now spoken in the special edition.
But the best part about this game is that clicking on the back button on the controller downscales the experience back to the 90s version, with the old graphics, MIDI music and subtitles instead of speech. It's been great to see the difference between the old and the new in each scene.
If you have an Xbox 360 - buy it today! The developers have hinted that if enough people buy this game, other classic LucasArts games may follow - such as Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango.
# Posted in the Gaming section and tagged as: Xbox 360
Back to Top
Comments
No comments have been made.Recent Blogs
Log o' cats I'm number 1! Resolute Phuket, Thailand - 2010 Mr. Potato Head Mashups Random Travel #2 - Thailand You have been the ones, you have been the ones for me. Balls Caramelised Pumpkin Risotto Malaysian Vegetable CurryFeed
Blog Entries
Recent Comments
Log o' cats
posted 7 months ago by joeldixon
ha ha - I didn't mention that I bought two copies of Lock, Stock after the creation of this catalogue ... link
Log o' cats
posted 7 months ago by Brad
I made a DVD list for the same reason and just last week bought The Green Mile on Blu-ray before ... link
Balls
posted 2 years ago by joeldixon
Exactly. What's wrong with the kids today when they can't spell genitals? And you and I have been using ... link
Balls
posted 2 years ago by abrereton
I'm just glad that they spelt it correctly in the end. link
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - 2010
posted 2 years ago by joeldixon
Definitely, you have to let us know when you're free for UBs! link
Comment Standings
1. the man with no name (45)
2. Hoff (39)
3. Gav (27)
4. Hitman (26)
5. Brad (23)
6. Eryc-Ads (13)
7. Deep Lurker (6)
8. thefury (5)
9. Dieter (4)
10. Zelks (4)