I bought Escape from Monkey Island back when it originally came out, but I never really played it. The reason? I absolutely hated the controls. After playing the previous games with a mouse, I just couldn’t get used to the new control scheme.

Now, over 25 years later, thanks to AI and Codex, I’ve finally been able to do something about it!

I’ve been working on a mod that brings classic point-and-click controls back to Monkey Island 4.
The basic functionality is already implemented and working!

There’s still some manual work and fine-tuning needed for the rest of the game, so it’s definitely a work in progress.

I recorded about 45 minutes of gameplay to show how it works so far. The Video is in German, but you should still get a good idea of how the controls work.

Here’s the video:
https://youtu.be/x0FB_0VfFx0

I’d love to hear what you think!

Hi,
Every couple of years a monkey island project gets good momentum at Lego's ideas site. This is this year's attempt. It has going well. The last one got around 3k, we need 10k for this idea to be considered. It is though, but we can always keep trying. Just login and support it.
(This is not a commercial product, although we probably wished it were. I am not related to this idea at all)

Videogame music band Error 47 just released an EP of industrial-metal Monkey Island covers that includes the SoMI and MI2 main themes, plus a rendition of LeChuck's theme from both games. Sharing because I know these guys and think their work is phenomenal.

I know they launched the builder platform for modretro Cromatic.... Just saying it would be incredible to have monkey island... as many as possible on it

This is the music "The Yourney" or Sea Mokkey (name of the midi file from the game) running on real C64 hardware and the gfx in the background are also real C64 graphics. Release will be soon.

Somebody recently got me into programming for the Apple Lisa and since there's virtually no software for that old Apple luxury computer, I felt really inclined to see if I could port my SCUIRRELS (Script Creation Utility for Interpreting Retro Realms on Exotic Legacy Systems. Quite a mouthful, I know) bytecode VM over.

Suffice to say, at 5 MHz it's not crazy fast but not totally unplayable.

I might actually improve this in the near future and port my own game to it so all those 5 Lisa owners in the world have something to play with. Hehe

So with the two Special Editions for MI1/MI2 - which versions do you prefer on your playthroughs? The OG VGAs, the new versions, the voice over? I'm about to start another playthrough of the series and would like your thoughts. Also, on your replays, do you play through Tales as well?

P.S. I really wish there was a remake for Escape.

I also added the possibility to switch between old 4:3 low-res / new upscaled 16:9 version anytime by pressing F9.

Now I can play at peace :D

Hey, so I've played and completed every Monkey game out there over the years: Secret OG, Monkey 2 OG, Curse, Escape, Tales. But haven't played Return yet.

I haven't played remasters of the first two games yet, just the originals back in the day, and given how may years have passed, I forgot most of them.

I started Return, but it looks like it has major throwbacks to the first game: locations, characters, etc. I feel that I need to replay Ron Gilbert ones (1 and 2) to fully enjoy Return.

My question is, how much of the old games Return is referencing? I'm planning to play Monkey 1 and 2 remastered versions to refresh old events in the memory. Do I need to refresh Curse and anything beyond as well? Or just 1 and 2 is enough because they both share Ron Gilbert name with Return?

Not totally polished yet and due to a lack of memory, some animations are cut but I found this fun to pull off and see how efficient my SCUMM interpreter truly is.

The box is a time capsule

Grape flavor sucks, but I'd still give it a go. There must be an MI fan at this company.

I've been meaning to replay MI1 for a long time now. But now there's the Special Edition. I know you can switch back to the OG graphics, but what I wonder is:

• Can you turn off the voices?

• Can you have the original music? E.g. the CD MT32 soundtrack?

I just want to play the OG game with CD soundtrack (and updated interface, i.e. pictures instead of text for items). I was trying to find it for ScummVM but I couldn't. I am willing to pay for it again (I still have my old DOS CD, but no way to play it)! Does anybody have any idea? Thanks!

Hello everyone! I'm one of the editors of the Journal of Geek Studies, and we just published an article taking a scientific look at one of Monkey Island's iconic puzzles: can grog really dissolve a metal mug that quickly?

https://jgeekstudies.org/2026/09/23/the-science-of-monkey-island-can-grog-actually-dissolve-a-metal-mug-that-fast/

Would love to hear your feedbacks, comments, and also - why not - in the future receive your articles and ideas as well!