Yeah. About a half hour in they get to the game Monkey Island and that is when I remembered the title and what this was a video about Monkey Island. Then I realized the video was 1 hour 14 minutes long.
I remember that "Ask me about Loom" pirate at the Scumm bar confusing the heck out of me when I was 6. Back in the day my brain struggled to comprehend he was pimping another real game, and I kept talking to him thinking I was missing a punchline or needed to know about this alleged game for a puzzle or something.
Likewise! I was 5 when I played Monkey Island, so when this (and even more so with the Catacomb Stump™) happened I went to my father and asked him about it. He was as puzzled as I was though!
@Ahmed Malaki It's an advertisement for another one of Lucas Films adventure games called Loom, I'd be very surprised if Monkey Island had a Doom reference considering it came out 3 years before Doom did 😄
@@Osterochse Loom's world building is on par with the monkey islands, but the game play mechanics have only rarely been repeated. Occasionally there is a puzzle game with a puzzle or two that is note/color/sound based. Over the years, the closest game I've played that used a note system was Growbot. Loom held an innocence of youth to it. I don't know if I could get through Loom again though, even if I love it.
Came back to this documentary after Return To Monkey Island got announced. Love both this documentary and the game franchise, and I hope Stuart was as excited to see the announcement as I was.
This video is simply outstanding. It’s not just the best content of its kind on TH-cam, it’s one of the most meticulously crafted documentaries I’ve ever seen produced for this platform. This is *too good* to be free. Writing ✔️ Research ✔️ Narration ✔️ Editing ✔️ I honestly thought your channel fell of the map entirely, but *wow.* If this is what you’ve been working on, please, don’t hesitate to take your time in the future. ...I’m seriously blown away.
To me Monkey Island has the greatest game intro ever. The slow, mysterious start with the long chord over the Lucasfilm logo, and the theme song starting with a view of the Mêlée island, the village lights and the lookout... it still gives me chills. And that's all we need at that point IMO: just a distant view of the island to make us intrigued to find out more, as the theme song plays, also being kind of an overview of what this world is and how it feels.
and I just bought the monkey island collection to play the 50th time last week then this came out couple days ago th-cam.com/video/sahskKAxSCY/w-d-xo.html
Me and my big brother voice-acted the game while he was playing it, we had so much fun and I was so little. Now we are very distant but this memory is still precious.
He comes into our life and brings us so much joy and then he vanishes without a word for months at a time. It hurts so good and I just cant quit you Ahoy.
I love the style of his videos and he has a badass voice. Reminds me of an old school History Channel documentary. (Before the History Channel turned into reality TV)
Believe or not, I am one of the guys who really died "accidentally" in MI. I was too stupid to find the solution in the drowning scene. And yes, I had no savegame at that time... So it was a restart for me. Still love it, though. ;)
@@freggittlegamint2830 Yes its sad that point n click adventure games are no longer backed by major developers because if there was a monkey island sequel on Xbox,windows store or android and it cost $20 I think a lot of people would be willing to pay for a professional game that can be played on places without internet.
How could you possibly have no save game at that point, that’s about an hour into the gameplay at least. And that’s assuming you solved all the puzzles immediately.
@@thefonzkiss To be more precise: I was lazy and always saved over one default savegame. Then it took me too long to figure this scene out (I think I also let the game run, probably to get some lunch). As I wasn't able to solve that scene anymore and the (German) manual stated that dying isn't really possible in Lucasfilm Games, I wasn't thinking much when I overwrote my default savegame to continue this "puzzle" later. From there on, I was shit out of luck and it took my several hours to figure out, that the manual and the game actually lied to me.
It's difficult to describe how much Monkey Island meant to me when it released. I was 14 years old and i begged my parents to give me money to buy it. The Christmas before it, i got my very first Amiga 500 and this was the game i wanted more than anything, probably because i had played Maniac Mansion several times on the Commodore 64 a few years earlier, and that was one of the best games i had ever played. So my parents finally gave me the money, and my dad drove me 50km to the closest shop that actually sold games, back then games were not sold everywhere, actually had to go to special shops that specialized in them, and those were almost only in the big cities, and i lived way out in the "fields". I remember when we got there, big city, lot's of noise, something i rarely were used to, we ate at mcdonald's, something "fields" didn't have either, and then we walked to the store. And there it was in it's big case, on a shelf in the middle of the room, like they were saying, this is what you need to buy now, this is it! It was really special to buy that game with my own money, that might have been the first time i ever did that. Other games i either got someone else to buy or i got them as gifts for birthdays and Christmas. And then to get the box in my hands and just sense that i would boot up this game in less than an hour if i got home right away, i had this feeling of joy that i have rarely ever felt since, all the way home. When we got home, it was really hot outside, and i remember my friends wanted to do some stuff, but i said i would lock myself inside for the day and just play a new game. It ended up being one of the best gaming experiences i have ever had, and i will never forget it. And also my grand moms sister at some point came into my room and asked what i was doing, and we ended up playing large portions of the game together, it was so damn fun, we laughed at the jokes and we solved the puzzles. Took me about 3 days to beat the game, and i never played it since, but i have bought all the remaster versions and so on. But i still remember how it felt to play this game, and it was magical, it is the best point and click game i have ever played. The first game i ever buy for myself, and it's this game, i could not have been more satisfied.
FabledSomething your nostalgia and enthusiasm is mint. I was lucky we had a microton games shop in the next town (Pontefract) ... Double dragon on the spectrum +2 oh my my Little Dopper nearly exploded . 🖖🏼
Some of the best memories of my youth are my friends and I playing MI and MI2 as teenagers, working together to solve the puzzles. Nearly 30 years later we are all still friends, though separated by tie and geography we still stay in touch and make an effort to see each other if we happen to be in the same city, and yes, we always talk about the old games we played when we were young.
Yeah...I feel like it kinda needs a different title or something...? For a video titled "The Secret of Monkey Island" and running at over an hour long, only the first 36 minutes or so are on topic. And about half of that is lead-up to the game, which is interesting and fair enough, but the other half is frankly just kind of a standard overview of the game and how it was made(it improves the SCUMM engine, refined the genre by removing deaths and game-ending puzzle mistakes, implemented a unique sense of humor, the guy.brush story, etc). Then, when it starts to look like an overview of Monkey Island a a series, it just sort of rushes past MI2(perhaps the most well-crafted game in the entire series) in 3 minutes(?!!!) with an even more surface-level analysis(innovative music system, the artstyle shift). And then it spends a MINUTE on Curse of Monkey Island that boils down to "it existed." You know, the game in the series which introduced Dominic Armato's iconic voice for Guybrush, leaned even harder into the more cartoony visuals of MI2, introduced Murray, implemented that ship-fighting idea from MI1, and overall had such a strong pull on the series' aesthetics both visually and in terms of audio that it's influences can be seen in the remakes they made of the original games(up to and including getting the voice established in Curse dub the lines of those games)? I usually really quite enjoy these videos, but this was a bit of a disappointment. I was hoping for an in-depth video on the behind-the-scenes of the creation of Secret; or at least a decently detailed overview on the core titles in the series up to Curse. It's a good video for what it is, but honestly it needed either focus or a different introduction and title. This is more about adventure games as a genre, than Monkey Island.
This is the style of Ahoy. I love how he provides relevant information to it, rather than just the game specifically. Because some people like to ask questions like "What happened to Tim Schafer?" Well we know what he did.
And now we know what the secret is. and it 100% explains what the ending of 2 was in a couple of ways both in cannon and in meaning. I for one am fully satisfied especially after reading their letter at the end in the scrapbook.
So fun to watch this, a real life friend worked on the SFX for Lucasfilm (mostly games including monkey island but some of the movies) and some of the stories he told from that era was cool and in the context of this video, so much cooler. An excellent human being up to the point of his passing and his love for creating games was unmatched.
I am 44 years old today, started playing computer games in 1984, adventure games quickly became my favorite genre. I played most of the games showed here ... This is the best youtube video i have ever seen.
Three years and I still watch this video all the time. Monkey Island's soundtrack is so amazing, that note at 0:04 is nothing short of bonechillingly magical. It's simple, three notes, and manages to convey the sense of coming adventure. An hour long tribute to point-click adventures, and Monkey Island itself. If the TH-cam community gave awards, your videos would win every single damn one for quality. Thank you for making this.
it's insane how often I find myself coming back and watching your documentaries in full, I regularly tell people; "I don't watch movies/tv because its a waste of time" but your videos are one of the few exceptions I give to myself. I don't know if it's the dialogue you provide, the soundtrack, your visuals, or something else. Either way, I am more than happy to wait as long as it takes for any new doc to release, as each time I know they'll be an absolute treat.
My wife grew up loving the King’s Quest games because that’s what her dad played back in the day. I got a hold of KQ5 and had a little nostalgic throwback for her one weekend. Very quickly I realized how annoying Sierra’s game design was with all the death traps, dead ends, having to save everywhere (only could have 12 save files in total). We ultimately gave up when we made it into some witch’s forest but lacked an important item from 30 minutes ago leading to a very hard dead end. I wish I had known about the Secret of Monkey Island sooner. I’ll bet she’d like that one better.
That's one of the beautiful things about what Ahoy does: He does focus on the titular games of these documentary videos, but he then goes on to illustrate how pivotal said games were in their respective genre. That and how previous games led to the eventual inspiration and development of the central subject matter.
The original Secret of Monkey Island art style was by far the best. The exaggerated cell-shaded cartoon look of later Monkey Island games was hideous. The remastered/HD versions went in the wrong direction. At the same time Day of the Tentacle's cartoony look actually kinda worked.
@@Waluigi666 Wow...glad I hopped off that ship after completing the first season of walking dead! Because if puzzles took a backseat AFTERWARDS, that does not bode well, they were already far too simplistic to the point where I cannot recall anything about them! Were there ever puzzles?
I love how you don't just talk about the one game on which you base your video on, but you also cover other games in the genre and how they were influenced and kickstarted by Monkey Island, as well as the devs' career paths and so on. You go into so much detail that it'd be worth watching 3 hours of this ;).
I ADORED Grim Fandango growing up. Peter McConnell’s soundtrack was mind blowing to me as a kid who had never really considered that jazz had anything to offer me. I loved the style, the characters, the story was so fun, and the soundtrack has had so much influence on my music taste. To this day, all of my playlists have at least one Grim Fandango or Peter McConnell song, usually more.
In the time of our new Monkey Island, I finally sat down to watch this oft-recommended documentary, and I have to say thanks for such a well-produced piece of work.
While other channels are expanding their videos in parts, you're uploading the whole thing in one video. Respect! You care more about the art rather than making money/views.
drawing close to my 40th birthday and I am sure this vid is already one of my favorite things I could gift myself to travel back when dad was alive, playing monkey island alongside me. I thank you sir, beautifully made!
How can one man make such high quality stuff? Like the seamless transition of music at 23:19 from beeper via Adlib to Roland without skipping a beat. My hat goes off to you, Ahoy.
Came back to rewatch this after playing the Secret of Monkey Island tall tale in Sea of Thieves. Really cool seeing this again after exploring the game in 3D
24:00 - the sound track "was brilliant, memorable and still resonant today" -- exactly. I've never played the game (not my thing) but many decades back I searched for "theme music" somewhere and heard TSoMI theme for the first time. Been on one of my playlists ever since.
WHOA, I was just watching this as a huge fan of the series... but that is totally me playing the flute in the background music at 1:10:00! haha. So weird, I did not expect that. I played it almost 20 years ago for a very dedicated fan of Peter McConnell. We also did a piece from Indy: FoA. Great little documentary, I appreciate the love that went into it. #monkey-island on DALnet for lyfe
Heh, that's pretty neat. Just to let you know, occasionally I will throw on the soundtrack just to listen to it. I love the music almost most of all. Keep kicking ass!!
@@jesusasecas th-cam.com/video/_fj5pIpjS14/w-d-xo.html ..I have it saved but just search Monkey Island Soundtrack and it'll pop up. They all have really good soundtracks.
@@tomfoolery4598 thanks, but I meant the Sarah B cover where she plays the flute. It's from the Monkey Island 2 "Underground Tunnels" theme, but the cover sounds lovely.
I always imagined that if I ever won the Powerball or something equally extravagant, that I would buy a small island, and loosely recreate Melee or Scab island, hiring a staff of actors to help visitors and patrons accomplish whatever quest they purchased to go on (sort of like a Westworld interactive amusement park.. or a super large panic room; island sized).
Thank you Ahoy, for talking at length about the perilous story of adventure games. Especially I'm glad that you brought up the European pocket of adventure games with things like The Longest Journey and Syberia especially. They are truly unique. I'm also saying this as someone who got into adventure games with Monkey Island 4. Although people usually dismiss it, it was a fascinating game to me, and it still is to this day.
Mate, I can't say how amazed I am at your work, you do all of this stuff alone? This is insane, the quality is top notch and the voice work and soundtrack is incredible! I don't know how many nights you spend up, or how many hours you take away from your normal life to do this stuff but whatever you're doing I just have to say thanks for the effort, I just need to let you know your work doesn't go unappreciated.
Don't ask me how, but I'd never heard of this channel (with ~1.5M subscribers!) - and this dude just comes along out of nowhere and drop-kicks me right in the nostalgia!
King's Quest, "set in the fairytale kingdom of Daventry..." - ah, yes, ye olde Daventry, on the A45 trail between the ancient cities of Coventry and Northampton.
I don't think Daventry from King's Quest has anything in common with the real one except the name, which I'm pretty sure Roberta Williams picked just because she liked the sound of it.
I got chills from the title screen music and it's literally the first time I've ever heard it. I only ever get chills from nostalgic things. I don't have words.
Isn't it amazing though? Monkey Island is just about the only song I've ever heard that actually sounded decent with the IBM PC Speaker. Ironically, it's still my favorite version of the theme. It's probably because it's the best Speaker version of any song I've ever heard. The IBM Speaker version of Maniac Mansion's theme, on the other hand, isn't exactly the most pleasant theme I've experienced... It's the high-pitched parts that are so agonizing. 😂
Basically a 3 year old 1 hour and 14 minute video has sold me on just buying Secret to Monkey Island. Even after all these years of seeing it and being told it is a great point and click game. I'll do it. I'll get get.
52:55 Whenever I hear this scene it absolutely breaks my my heart, especially hearing the music from that Sam and Max game going off the rails made it feel more tragic than humorous.
Hearing the Monkey Island theme song at the beginning of this video almost got some tears rolling. No other game has left a lasting impression on me as the monkey island games have (though with Day of the tentacle and Sam & Max as close runner-ups). It brought me right back to a place and a time that is gone for good, but the memories these tunes bring back are fantastic. Thank you so much for this revisit into my childhood and thank you for an awesome channel!
Yeah, I felt the same, dude!! The Monkey Island series will always have a special place in my heart. One that's impossible to relate to someone who wasn't there in the 90s, struggling to get through the impossible puzzles, with that soothing island music repeating in the background...
Thank you for this video. I was 13 when MI2 came out and I was playing MI1. It might be sad to say this but it was the game of my life. I wanted more and more puzzles. I’ve played hundreds of times, it was my favourite game of all the time. When MI3 was released in 97 I was extremely anxious to have it and I bought it on the release day. It’s pity that MI won’t have a proper ending and the secret revealed. I really wanted to congratulate all the people involved in the game as it was a part of me and my life.
Only discovered this documentary while waiting for the release of Return to Monkey Island. This might be the best TH-cam video I've ever seen, not simply because it talks about my favourite game of all time, but because it does it with so much research and respect for the genre and in such an entertaining and professional manner. Loved every minute of it. I was like a recollection of all my youth, with information I never knew filled in. Simply amazing. Thank you so much even after all these years!
I've never heard of this channel but thankfully this popped up in my recommendations because i love monkey island. I Just wanted to say this video was absolutely fantastic and definitely will be back for more of your videos.
I second Colt's statement, They're amazing! Ahoy's POLYBIUS video is great too, It's now his most viewed, even passing the id software documentary trilogy.
“Telltale has proven that there is still a market for adventure games.” Cut to maybe a few months after this video came out, when it’s suddenly revealed that literally only one of Telltale’s games after TWD season 1 ever made a profit, followed immediately by the studio shutting down, and announcements from other studios, that their telltale-esque games have actually been failing as well. God, I’ve never seen a video with a positive ending note, be so thoroughly and viscously slammed into the ground by reality.
While you're right about Telltale's fate, it DID prove there is a market, as you can now see hundreds of point-and-click adventures all over Steam, lots of them with pretty high quality - and having profits.
Back when TellTale first began restarting the Point-N-Click Adventure genre with Sam & Max, Strongbad, Puzzle Adventure, etc., the general emphasis was that each series had a unique visual style and tone. Then, they made The Walking Dead and all of their games after that had the same damn art style, on top of having the same gameplay formula. Most of their stuff became licensed properties, and they flooded their own market with derivative bubbling slop that few wanted and less asked for, like Game of Thrones, Back to the Future and Minecraft: Story Mode. It's kind of funny, but Hidden Object games are the new PNC adventure games. They evolved from being just hidden object games, and (attempting to stay relevant) took on inventories, puzzles, dialog options and the other adventure game trademarks, while the HO part is just for acquiring certain key objects to progress in those puzzles.
3:53 Never knew the Kingdom of Daventry was a thing. Here in England Daventry is a real place, and it's famous for knife crime and honestly this shouldn't have cracked me up as much as it has.
I’ve seen this video 6 times already all the way though, when I see it I have to watch it. I think it’s the most brilliant documentary type video I have ever seen. The quality and effort put into the video is astounding. It’s so relaxing and calming to me yet it kept my attention. I can’t get over just how perfect it is. The Secret Of Monkey Island will always have a place in my heart because of this video. I have not and most likely will not see any other video on the site with anymore care or perfection as this one does. Thank you.
1:04:29 "There have been some signs that Telltale might be running into trouble..."
...
...oof.
I guess you could say there were...
...telltale signs.
ShyGuyXXL BOOOOO!
@@ShyGuyXXL 😩👌
PepeHands
It did not age well.
When you see a video about Monkey island and it starts at space Invaders you know you're in for the long haul
Yeah. About a half hour in they get to the game Monkey Island and that is when I remembered the title and what this was a video about Monkey Island. Then I realized the video was 1 hour 14 minutes long.
Bretton Ferguson
It’s like vsauce and old history channel combined
we get there when we get there!
You're
@@lavetissene339 ok grammar police
1:12:35
"It's just a theory. We don't know. We can't know."
It makes me very happy that, after recent news, we just might.
Did we?
@@cannedfrootloops7803 the secret? yup, it was already revealed -> th-cam.com/video/LHmnvnfhHjw/w-d-xo.html
@cannedfrootloops7803 yes he was right the secret was the whole time monkey island was a theme park
YOU WANT SOUND TRACK!?
*WE'LL GIVE YOU A SOUNDTRACK!*
[Fires a cannon full of absolute bangers and confetti]
The David Attenborough of game documentaries is back! Rejoice!
High praise and well deserved, love these documentaries :)
Definitely
^^for reeeeeal
Would like to think Ahoy is in a class of his own, but analogy does hold true.
What about the Gaming Historian?
Am I dreaming? A new upload from Ahoy?
Am I dead?
Arbiter91 follow him on Twitter for updates about upcoming videos.
_Is this the real life?_
_Is this just fantasy?_
Zeltzamer _Caught in a landslide._
_No escape from reality._
𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴
𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘶𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘬𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘦
Biohazard1516 I’m just a poor boy,
I need no sympathy
I remember that "Ask me about Loom" pirate at the Scumm bar confusing the heck out of me when I was 6. Back in the day my brain struggled to comprehend he was pimping another real game, and I kept talking to him thinking I was missing a punchline or needed to know about this alleged game for a puzzle or something.
Likewise! I was 5 when I played Monkey Island, so when this (and even more so with the Catacomb Stump™) happened I went to my father and asked him about it. He was as puzzled as I was though!
@Ahmed Malaki It's an advertisement for another one of Lucas Films adventure games called Loom, I'd be very surprised if Monkey Island had a Doom reference considering it came out 3 years before Doom did 😄
@Ahmed Malaki Loom gets a brief mention in the video at about 18:06, the game isn't bad, but Monkey Island is by far the better game
Loom is actually my favourite childhood game. I has something magical about it. Even though the gameplay in monkey island might be better.
@@Osterochse Loom's world building is on par with the monkey islands, but the game play mechanics have only rarely been repeated. Occasionally there is a puzzle game with a puzzle or two that is note/color/sound based. Over the years, the closest game I've played that used a note system was Growbot. Loom held an innocence of youth to it. I don't know if I could get through Loom again though, even if I love it.
32:40 "Been there, done that, got the t-shirt." Hits different nowadays.
When Ahoy uploads I'm pretty sure I get the "honey I'm home" feeling
That is the best description yet!!! :D
Mine's more of a surprise gift that I didn't deserve
The quality of this video is mind blowing
They are all great.
It's overwhelming
Clearly made with love!
I know 1080p is great!
I didn't think about that until you pointed it out. It IS mind blowing!
Well... About 4 years later, a new Monkey Island returns.
Nature is healing.
@@marc.lepage hell, yeah! Grog’s on me, mates!
Oh man is this really how I hear about this??
(Thank you for commenting and letting us know!)
Just because of this I'm watching for a third time
I was just about to comment this
No wonder Ahoy is taking so long to post videos, he is working on entire movie length documentaries.
John Red
Not just the lenght. The pro quality as well.
Quality over quantity.
See you in another 8 months
Quality over quantity, right?
More like a year
(Sigh) well, yeah...
See you all then
He's like Dan Carlin and his hardcore history as in they make a new episode and then disappear for 8-12 months.
Monkey Island has a reserved place in my heart and will be there till i die. The ost alone is like a painkiller.
Me too.
Return to Monkey Island, with Ron Gilbert at the helm. 2022. It’s happening.
Come play it in sea of thieves
Came back to this documentary after Return To Monkey Island got announced. Love both this documentary and the game franchise, and I hope Stuart was as excited to see the announcement as I was.
This video is simply outstanding. It’s not just the best content of its kind on TH-cam, it’s one of the most meticulously crafted documentaries I’ve ever seen produced for this platform. This is *too good* to be free.
Writing ✔️
Research ✔️
Narration ✔️
Editing ✔️
I honestly thought your channel fell of the map entirely, but *wow.* If this is what you’ve been working on, please, don’t hesitate to take your time in the future.
...I’m seriously blown away.
Congrats also in the really detailed history of computer adventure games building up to Monkey Island too
I agree. Above and beyond performance making this video.
Oh wait, all this guy’s videos are amazing
Long time no see...
Always worth the wait!
To be fair its an hour and 13 minutes long
"heh, long time no see Sonix."
Mr M first time ive ever seen Ahoy give a heart. :3
To me Monkey Island has the greatest game intro ever. The slow, mysterious start with the long chord over the Lucasfilm logo, and the theme song starting with a view of the Mêlée island, the village lights and the lookout... it still gives me chills. And that's all we need at that point IMO: just a distant view of the island to make us intrigued to find out more, as the theme song plays, also being kind of an overview of what this world is and how it feels.
"There's hope that one day there'll be the resolution of a true Monkey Island 3" - That hope has finally paid off! Return to Monkey Island.
and I just bought the monkey island collection to play the 50th time last week then this came out couple days ago th-cam.com/video/sahskKAxSCY/w-d-xo.html
The curse of MI is not by Ron Gilbert but it is a 9 of 10. Especially in comparsion to Escape and Tales.
@@christacker5098 Yes. But storywise, I would like to know how Ron would continue 2. And now he's gonna do it. Whohoo.
monkey land
We don't actually know if he's going to do his version of 3, remember Murray is in the trailer for return. He was first revealed in curse.
Me and my big brother voice-acted the game while he was playing it, we had so much fun and I was so little.
Now we are very distant but this memory is still precious.
Luc Salander I did that last summer when I played loom for the first time. It's fun being silly and reading the dialogue out loud
Ahaha I used to do that reading comics with my brother, also when re-reading homestuck (the og stuff), and sometimes games with my friend; Love it
Daddy Ahoy is back ❤
He comes into our life and brings us so much joy and then he vanishes without a word for months at a time. It hurts so good and I just cant quit you Ahoy.
well this video *is* a fucking hour long, so I don't blame him
At long last.
im glad hes back, feared i had to unsub another dead channel that provided quality content
I love the style of his videos and he has a badass voice. Reminds me of an old school History Channel documentary. (Before the History Channel turned into reality TV)
This melody just brings back so many happy feelings of my youth.
It's the amount of goosebumps you get when the intro music kicks in, what makes a game a classic game.
"Turn your computer off and go to sleep!"
Well, damn, you got me there.
Believe or not, I am one of the guys who really died "accidentally" in MI. I was too stupid to find the solution in the drowning scene. And yes, I had no savegame at that time... So it was a restart for me. Still love it, though. ;)
@Lassi Kinnunen
As a child, I loved killing Leisure Suit Larry.
@@freggittlegamint2830 Yes its sad that point n click adventure games are no longer backed by major developers because if there was a monkey island sequel on Xbox,windows store or android and it cost $20 I think a lot of people would be willing to pay for a professional game that can be played on places without internet.
@@damienhartley1736 hey did ya hear?
How could you possibly have no save game at that point, that’s about an hour into the gameplay at least. And that’s assuming you solved all the puzzles immediately.
@@thefonzkiss To be more precise: I was lazy and always saved over one default savegame. Then it took me too long to figure this scene out (I think I also let the game run, probably to get some lunch). As I wasn't able to solve that scene anymore and the (German) manual stated that dying isn't really possible in Lucasfilm Games, I wasn't thinking much when I overwrote my default savegame to continue this "puzzle" later. From there on, I was shit out of luck and it took my several hours to figure out, that the manual and the game actually lied to me.
Not gonna lie, i come back to this every so often. Its one of my favorite movies
the music alone has me returning
It's so perfect! The content, the narration, the rythm, the music, the imagery and animations...
Movie? This is a game
@@dav786 it feels like a movie
@@Osterochse ohhh.. the video
*Grabs popcorn*
*Slowly realizes what's happening*
"Didn't realize he would start with the history of videogames"
"Bold strategy, Cotton"
It's difficult to describe how much Monkey Island meant to me when it released. I was 14 years old and i begged my parents to give me money to buy it. The Christmas before it, i got my very first Amiga 500 and this was the game i wanted more than anything, probably because i had played Maniac Mansion several times on the Commodore 64 a few years earlier, and that was one of the best games i had ever played. So my parents finally gave me the money, and my dad drove me 50km to the closest shop that actually sold games, back then games were not sold everywhere, actually had to go to special shops that specialized in them, and those were almost only in the big cities, and i lived way out in the "fields".
I remember when we got there, big city, lot's of noise, something i rarely were used to, we ate at mcdonald's, something "fields" didn't have either, and then we walked to the store. And there it was in it's big case, on a shelf in the middle of the room, like they were saying, this is what you need to buy now, this is it!
It was really special to buy that game with my own money, that might have been the first time i ever did that. Other games i either got someone else to buy or i got them as gifts for birthdays and Christmas. And then to get the box in my hands and just sense that i would boot up this game in less than an hour if i got home right away, i had this feeling of joy that i have rarely ever felt since, all the way home.
When we got home, it was really hot outside, and i remember my friends wanted to do some stuff, but i said i would lock myself inside for the day and just play a new game. It ended up being one of the best gaming experiences i have ever had, and i will never forget it. And also my grand moms sister at some point came into my room and asked what i was doing, and we ended up playing large portions of the game together, it was so damn fun, we laughed at the jokes and we solved the puzzles.
Took me about 3 days to beat the game, and i never played it since, but i have bought all the remaster versions and so on. But i still remember how it felt to play this game, and it was magical, it is the best point and click game i have ever played. The first game i ever buy for myself, and it's this game, i could not have been more satisfied.
FabledSomething your nostalgia and enthusiasm is mint. I was lucky we had a microton games shop in the next town (Pontefract) ... Double dragon on the spectrum +2 oh my my Little Dopper nearly exploded . 🖖🏼
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Thank you for sharing that little memory. Super cool my dude.
Some of the best memories of my youth are my friends and I playing MI and MI2 as teenagers, working together to solve the puzzles. Nearly 30 years later we are all still friends, though separated by tie and geography we still stay in touch and make an effort to see each other if we happen to be in the same city, and yes, we always talk about the old games we played when we were young.
This brought a smile to my face. I miss those days.
The scale of this video kind of exploded, didn't it?
I'm only 8 minutes in so far and it's meandering like crazy, but to genuinely interesting places.
Yeah...I feel like it kinda needs a different title or something...?
For a video titled "The Secret of Monkey Island" and running at over an hour long, only the first 36 minutes or so are on topic. And about half of that is lead-up to the game, which is interesting and fair enough, but the other half is frankly just kind of a standard overview of the game and how it was made(it improves the SCUMM engine, refined the genre by removing deaths and game-ending puzzle mistakes, implemented a unique sense of humor, the guy.brush story, etc).
Then, when it starts to look like an overview of Monkey Island a a series, it just sort of rushes past MI2(perhaps the most well-crafted game in the entire series) in 3 minutes(?!!!) with an even more surface-level analysis(innovative music system, the artstyle shift). And then it spends a MINUTE on Curse of Monkey Island that boils down to "it existed." You know, the game in the series which introduced Dominic Armato's iconic voice for Guybrush, leaned even harder into the more cartoony visuals of MI2, introduced Murray, implemented that ship-fighting idea from MI1, and overall had such a strong pull on the series' aesthetics both visually and in terms of audio that it's influences can be seen in the remakes they made of the original games(up to and including getting the voice established in Curse dub the lines of those games)?
I usually really quite enjoy these videos, but this was a bit of a disappointment. I was hoping for an in-depth video on the behind-the-scenes of the creation of Secret; or at least a decently detailed overview on the core titles in the series up to Curse.
It's a good video for what it is, but honestly it needed either focus or a different introduction and title. This is more about adventure games as a genre, than Monkey Island.
In all the right ways, yes.
This episode is practically a complete Documentary on the subject.... to me, it is perfect as it is!
This is the style of Ahoy. I love how he provides relevant information to it, rather than just the game specifically. Because some people like to ask questions like "What happened to Tim Schafer?" Well we know what he did.
And now we know what the secret is. and it 100% explains what the ending of 2 was in a couple of ways both in cannon and in meaning. I for one am fully satisfied especially after reading their letter at the end in the scrapbook.
So fun to watch this, a real life friend worked on the SFX for Lucasfilm (mostly games including monkey island but some of the movies) and some of the stories he told from that era was cool and in the context of this video, so much cooler. An excellent human being up to the point of his passing and his love for creating games was unmatched.
I am 44 years old today, started playing computer games in 1984, adventure games quickly became my favorite genre. I played most of the games showed here ... This is the best youtube video i have ever seen.
Sturmpionier03 fucking nerd
Locke3OOO nerds make all the money.
Nerds made the technology your using right now to comment. Without them you wouldn’t be able to do all this stuff.
Oh Damn *you’re
Locke3OOO pathetic
Sturmpionier03 so you were 10 when you got into gaming, and have been pursuing your interest since then, remarkable ;)
"LucasArts games were met with LUKEwarm success."
Don't think I didn't notice that pun, Stu!
Three years and I still watch this video all the time. Monkey Island's soundtrack is so amazing, that note at 0:04 is nothing short of bonechillingly magical. It's simple, three notes, and manages to convey the sense of coming adventure. An hour long tribute to point-click adventures, and Monkey Island itself. If the TH-cam community gave awards, your videos would win every single damn one for quality. Thank you for making this.
it's insane how often I find myself coming back and watching your documentaries in full, I regularly tell people; "I don't watch movies/tv because its a waste of time" but your videos are one of the few exceptions I give to myself. I don't know if it's the dialogue you provide, the soundtrack, your visuals, or something else. Either way, I am more than happy to wait as long as it takes for any new doc to release, as each time I know they'll be an absolute treat.
you must be fun at parties
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I feel very much the same. :)
Maybe the real Secret of Monkey Island was the friends we made along the way
I don't know why but I laughed too much from this answer...
@@Pingwn hahah same
Is this a meme? I saw more or less the same comment on the Polybius video
@armorhide406 I've seen it as a meme in Darkk Mane's channel. Not sure if it's from there or just a typical funny comment used sporadically
@@armorhide406 Apparently it is saw it somewhere on TV tropes as an overused response to the end of a journey.
What makes a game a classic? Ahoy doing a video about it.
Finding out that there will be a new Monkey Island returning makes me delighted to be alive.
My wife grew up loving the King’s Quest games because that’s what her dad played back in the day. I got a hold of KQ5 and had a little nostalgic throwback for her one weekend. Very quickly I realized how annoying Sierra’s game design was with all the death traps, dead ends, having to save everywhere (only could have 12 save files in total). We ultimately gave up when we made it into some witch’s forest but lacked an important item from 30 minutes ago leading to a very hard dead end. I wish I had known about the Secret of Monkey Island sooner. I’ll bet she’d like that one better.
I remember playing Quest for Glory with my daughter. Good times.
I love these long form videos! great job!
They wouldn't probably get more views if they were uploaded as three separate parts though
This is more of a history of adventure games in general.
Not that I'm complaining, at all.
That's one of the beautiful things about what Ahoy does: He does focus on the titular games of these documentary videos, but he then goes on to illustrate how pivotal said games were in their respective genre. That and how previous games led to the eventual inspiration and development of the central subject matter.
MilkyMax it's much better than if he was just talking about MI
"So, maybe nobody bought it, but EVERYONE should play it"
Nearly fell on the floor I was laughing so hard lmao!!
The original Secret of Monkey Island art style was by far the best. The exaggerated cell-shaded cartoon look of later Monkey Island games was hideous. The remastered/HD versions went in the wrong direction. At the same time Day of the Tentacle's cartoony look actually kinda worked.
“Telltale Games.”
Oh dear.
Oh dear oh dear.
@@ze_rubenator Wolf among us and tales from the borderlands was cool mainly for the writing. But puzzles really took a backseat after walking dead
"the success of episodic games"
It's such a pity what happened to Telltale games. They made so many classics.
hahahaha exactly what i was thinking
@@Waluigi666 Wow...glad I hopped off that ship after completing the first season of walking dead!
Because if puzzles took a backseat AFTERWARDS, that does not bode well, they were already far too simplistic to the point where I cannot recall anything about them!
Were there ever puzzles?
I love how you don't just talk about the one game on which you base your video on, but you also cover other games in the genre and how they were influenced and kickstarted by Monkey Island, as well as the devs' career paths and so on. You go into so much detail that it'd be worth watching 3 hours of this ;).
I ADORED Grim Fandango growing up. Peter McConnell’s soundtrack was mind blowing to me as a kid who had never really considered that jazz had anything to offer me. I loved the style, the characters, the story was so fun, and the soundtrack has had so much influence on my music taste. To this day, all of my playlists have at least one Grim Fandango or Peter McConnell song, usually more.
In the time of our new Monkey Island, I finally sat down to watch this oft-recommended documentary, and I have to say thanks for such a well-produced piece of work.
I've waited... I'VE WAITED SO LONG!
A childhood favourite. Thanks again Stuart!
While other channels are expanding their videos in parts, you're uploading the whole thing in one video. Respect!
You care more about the art rather than making money/views.
drawing close to my 40th birthday and I am sure this vid is already one of my favorite things I could gift myself to travel back when dad was alive, playing monkey island alongside me. I thank you sir, beautifully made!
How can one man make such high quality stuff? Like the seamless transition of music at 23:19 from beeper via Adlib to Roland without skipping a beat. My hat goes off to you, Ahoy.
Does Ahoy make his videos on his own or has people helping. Because god damn, his content is beautiful
as a patreon supporter of ahoy, i can assure you, the man does everything himself. scripts, art, music, editing, even films the gameplay.
Shatterball that explains his uploads schedule
I'm blown away by it!
Judging by the content, i'd guess they're a multi-national team of about 150 people working from different countries and time zones.
Daaaamn that theme song still gives me the chills
I know, right?
Makes me want to immerse myself in piracy 🏴☠️
It's one of the songs that fundamentally reminds me of happier childhood times
Came back to rewatch this after playing the Secret of Monkey Island tall tale in Sea of Thieves. Really cool seeing this again after exploring the game in 3D
24:00 - the sound track "was brilliant, memorable and still resonant today" -- exactly. I've never played the game (not my thing) but many decades back I searched for "theme music" somewhere and heard TSoMI theme for the first time. Been on one of my playlists ever since.
I think Xbox ahoy is the best quality over quantity youtuber.
Why the heck do i see you everywhere?
Frankie on pc
AHOY IS BACK 🤘
Him and colossal is crazy
ChaosKirby Can't say I've actually seen him anywhere to be honest :P
The real Secret of Monkey Island was the friends we made along the way.
Gaaaaaay !
MONKEY ISLAND IS BACK!!! Gilbert announced today that it’s releasing this year in partnership with Devolver Digital and Lucasfilm games!
The Monkey Island soundtrack still gives me goosebumps
The theme is the greatest game theme ever made.
I love the idea that Guybrush is the last human on the planet experiencing pirate westworld
Holy shit he's back
He was never gone.
Just busy.
Seeing indeimaus commenting on this makes me want to see Ahoy do a dark souls video or something like that
Indeimaus
Hey, it's *Australian* Alpharad!
Fixed, of course he comes from the Dark Souls of first world countries.
Holy shit you're here
Actually, he comes from a land down under.
The production quality of your videos is breathtaking to say the least. Well done, sir.... well done.
BK yep, the other RetroAhoy videos are on the same level
Coming back to this video 4 years later.... RON GILBERT IS MAKING ANOTHER MONKEY ISLAND
I don't want to spoil anything just incase, but you predicted the future my dude.
It's no Ahoy video without a mention of DOOM
If you have the footage and it's easy to splice it in (analogue reference; sigh)...
StubenhockerElite I want to see him do a video over Lego Star Wars and somehow shove DOOM into it.
Isn't there gibbing in Lego Games? Ahoy finds a way.
WHOA, I was just watching this as a huge fan of the series... but that is totally me playing the flute in the background music at 1:10:00! haha. So weird, I did not expect that. I played it almost 20 years ago for a very dedicated fan of Peter McConnell. We also did a piece from Indy: FoA.
Great little documentary, I appreciate the love that went into it. #monkey-island on DALnet for lyfe
Heh, that's pretty neat. Just to let you know, occasionally I will throw on the soundtrack just to listen to it. I love the music almost most of all. Keep kicking ass!!
That cover part is pretty nice and sounds lovely. Is there any way to hear the whole track somewhere? ._.
@@jesusasecas th-cam.com/video/_fj5pIpjS14/w-d-xo.html ..I have it saved but just search Monkey Island Soundtrack and it'll pop up. They all have really good soundtracks.
@@tomfoolery4598 thanks, but I meant the Sarah B cover where she plays the flute. It's from the Monkey Island 2 "Underground Tunnels" theme, but the cover sounds lovely.
hee. ias mip... haaa.
great vid. monkey island is like zelda to me, hear the music or see scenes and my heart yearns for the joy they gave me as a young boy.
I always imagined that if I ever won the Powerball or something equally extravagant, that I would buy a small island, and loosely recreate Melee or Scab island, hiring a staff of actors to help visitors and patrons accomplish whatever quest they purchased to go on (sort of like a Westworld interactive amusement park.. or a super large panic room; island sized).
Thank you Ahoy, for talking at length about the perilous story of adventure games. Especially I'm glad that you brought up the European pocket of adventure games with things like The Longest Journey and Syberia especially. They are truly unique.
I'm also saying this as someone who got into adventure games with Monkey Island 4. Although people usually dismiss it, it was a fascinating game to me, and it still is to this day.
Mate, I can't say how amazed I am at your work, you do all of this stuff alone? This is insane, the quality is top notch and the voice work and soundtrack is incredible! I don't know how many nights you spend up, or how many hours you take away from your normal life to do this stuff but whatever you're doing I just have to say thanks for the effort, I just need to let you know your work doesn't go unappreciated.
Fun fact: I watched your video the same morning the day the fifth installment was announced.
Talk about timing
Don't ask me how, but I'd never heard of this channel (with ~1.5M subscribers!) - and this dude just comes along out of nowhere and drop-kicks me right in the nostalgia!
"We're firmly in fantheory territory now". You made it sound like we're in some deep dangerous place in an adventure game. Brilliant wordplay!
King's Quest, "set in the fairytale kingdom of Daventry..." - ah, yes, ye olde Daventry, on the A45 trail between the ancient cities of Coventry and Northampton.
and now found on Euro Truck Simulator
I don't think Daventry from King's Quest has anything in common with the real one except the name, which I'm pretty sure Roberta Williams picked just because she liked the sound of it.
Welp, looks like we might finally find out what the secret was when we Return to Monkey Island.
This is the best, most comprehensive history of early adventure games I have ever seen - all tucked inside a monkey island video. Bravo 👏👏👏
IT WAS WORTH THE WAIT Top quality stuff as always stu great work
Agreed, his videos must take a LONG time for how quality it is. I love how long they are as well. Can't get enough of it.
I got chills from the title screen music and it's literally the first time I've ever heard it. I only ever get chills from nostalgic things. I don't have words.
Same happens to me, the synth like ice crystals is wondrous.
Yes, monkey Island and Pirates were long addictions of the past. Good times
The composer allegedly wrote it during an LSD trip!
@@poiuy72997 See, drugs aren't always bad kids.
Isn't it amazing though? Monkey Island is just about the only song I've ever heard that actually sounded decent with the IBM PC Speaker. Ironically, it's still my favorite version of the theme. It's probably because it's the best Speaker version of any song I've ever heard. The IBM Speaker version of Maniac Mansion's theme, on the other hand, isn't exactly the most pleasant theme I've experienced... It's the high-pitched parts that are so agonizing. 😂
Basically a 3 year old 1 hour and 14 minute video has sold me on just buying Secret to Monkey Island. Even after all these years of seeing it and being told it is a great point and click game. I'll do it. I'll get get.
My heart is still beating for this game. Wonderful time to be a kid growing up with this game.
1:04:22 Uh, that's not Telltale's Game of Thrones. That's a completely different GoT game made by another developer.
10 out of 10. Every single video is a gem.
th-cam.com/video/QpT0xdibW8U/w-d-xo.html
@@kamotevlog9262 Fuck you.
*100000 out of 10
And we're getting another one in 2022!
52:55
Whenever I hear this scene it absolutely breaks my my heart, especially hearing the music from that Sam and Max game going off the rails made it feel more tragic than humorous.
Hearing the Monkey Island theme song at the beginning of this video almost got some tears rolling. No other game has left a lasting impression on me as the monkey island games have (though with Day of the tentacle and Sam & Max as close runner-ups). It brought me right back to a place and a time that is gone for good, but the memories these tunes bring back are fantastic. Thank you so much for this revisit into my childhood and thank you for an awesome channel!
Guess what
Yeah, I felt the same, dude!! The Monkey Island series will always have a special place in my heart. One that's impossible to relate to someone who wasn't there in the 90s, struggling to get through the impossible puzzles, with that soothing island music repeating in the background...
1:05:26 "much more memorable than their first title"
haha, get it? because their first title was called "Remember Me".
Thank you for this video. I was 13 when MI2 came out and I was playing MI1. It might be sad to say this but it was the game of my life. I wanted more and more puzzles. I’ve played hundreds of times, it was my favourite game of all the time. When MI3 was released in 97 I was extremely anxious to have it and I bought it on the release day. It’s pity that MI won’t have a proper ending and the secret revealed. I really wanted to congratulate all the people involved in the game as it was a part of me and my life.
Only discovered this documentary while waiting for the release of Return to Monkey Island. This might be the best TH-cam video I've ever seen, not simply because it talks about my favourite game of all time, but because it does it with so much research and respect for the genre and in such an entertaining and professional manner. Loved every minute of it. I was like a recollection of all my youth, with information I never knew filled in. Simply amazing. Thank you so much even after all these years!
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I've never heard of this channel but thankfully this popped up in my recommendations because i love monkey island. I Just wanted to say this video was absolutely fantastic and definitely will be back for more of your videos.
oh you are in for a treat, I highly recommend the ID games trilogy of Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake.
I second Colt's statement, They're amazing!
Ahoy's POLYBIUS video is great too, It's now his most viewed, even passing the id software documentary trilogy.
youre in for torture... he takes so long to post and always leaves you wanting him
I really recommend his iconic arms series
The waits are long.... but the quality more than makes up for it.
Well this is a pleasant surprise!
Has anyone told you, that you seem to be posting on almost all of the videos I watch?
The love I have for this videogame is hard to explain. Thanks.
Back from the announcement of Return to Monkey Island, maybe we will know the secret of Monkey Island after all…
So Lucas Films created Rocket League 35 years ago?
...Oh my God.
Yes
Wait, I don't get it.
That’s insane
Time is a flat circle
“Telltale has proven that there is still a market for adventure games.”
Cut to maybe a few months after this video came out, when it’s suddenly revealed that literally only one of Telltale’s games after TWD season 1 ever made a profit, followed immediately by the studio shutting down, and announcements from other studios, that their telltale-esque games have actually been failing as well.
God, I’ve never seen a video with a positive ending note, be so thoroughly and viscously slammed into the ground by reality.
While you're right about Telltale's fate, it DID prove there is a market, as you can now see hundreds of point-and-click adventures all over Steam, lots of them with pretty high quality - and having profits.
In my opinion, the fate of Telltale wasn't related to the adventure games markets per se - but to their own management flaws.
@@davidsenra2495 exactly. Terrible management caused their losses
Back when TellTale first began restarting the Point-N-Click Adventure genre with Sam & Max, Strongbad, Puzzle Adventure, etc., the general emphasis was that each series had a unique visual style and tone. Then, they made The Walking Dead and all of their games after that had the same damn art style, on top of having the same gameplay formula. Most of their stuff became licensed properties, and they flooded their own market with derivative bubbling slop that few wanted and less asked for, like Game of Thrones, Back to the Future and Minecraft: Story Mode.
It's kind of funny, but Hidden Object games are the new PNC adventure games. They evolved from being just hidden object games, and (attempting to stay relevant) took on inventories, puzzles, dialog options and the other adventure game trademarks, while the HO part is just for acquiring certain key objects to progress in those puzzles.
The wolf among us, twd season 1/2, tales from the borderlands and Batman were their only really good games. The rest were shameless cash grabs
I can literally tell you the walkthrough off the top of my head..
Haven't played this game in 10 years..
That's the impact it had on me.
18 fucking mintues of edging made me shout "Yes!" when monkey island finally came on screen
kinky
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You could have just skipped forward.
and then the other 40 minutes are just about other games.
3:53 Never knew the Kingdom of Daventry was a thing. Here in England Daventry is a real place, and it's famous for knife crime and honestly this shouldn't have cracked me up as much as it has.
What Disney did to Lucasfilms was a crime imo.
Why fix something that isn't broken?
MONEY
Disney fucked star wars movies and games so bad lol
mandalorian was great, but i honestly can’t really think of anything else of the same quality
LucasArts was already basically dead when Disney bought it. Disney simply put it out of its misery.
First the film industry, *THEN THE WORLD!*
I’ve seen this video 6 times already all the way though, when I see it I have to watch it. I think it’s the most brilliant documentary type video I have ever seen. The quality and effort put into the video is astounding. It’s so relaxing and calming to me yet it kept my attention. I can’t get over just how perfect it is. The Secret Of Monkey Island will always have a place in my heart because of this video. I have not and most likely will not see any other video on the site with anymore care or perfection as this one does. Thank you.
With Return to Monkey Island announced, it sounds like Ron will finally reveal the titular Secret of Monkey Island after all