Search Results for: Monkey Island
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A Very GameCola Wedding 3: Wed Hard with a Vengeance
Blog Posts by Nathaniel Hoover on 
6 ...OverClocked Remixes in abundance—selections from Castlevania, DuckTales, Gradius, EarthBound, Final Fantasy, Mega Man 2, The Secret of Monkey Island, and Super Metroid were at least on the list, even if...
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The Book of Unwritten Tales (PC)
Reviews by Paul Franzen on ...(I’ll never forgive you for that, Monkey Island.) Moreover, the game’s hotspots only indicate new or essential interactions; once you’ve examined an object, either you can interact with it in...
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Where’s Waldo?: The Fantastic Journey (iPad)
Reviews by Michael Gray on 2 ...screens. I mean, seriously, it takes up more memory than four Monkey Island iPad games put together. There must be some way to improve this game’s memory usage. The other...
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Double Fine’s OTHER Adventure Game: The Cave
News Posts by Paul Franzen on 3 ...not just the one we already know about. Monkey Island’s former top banana Ron Gilbert has been not-so-secretly working on a new adventure title called The Cave which, according to...
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Q&AmeCola: Games That Kickstarter Should Resurrect
Columns by GameCola Staff on 26 ...even go so far as to say that it’s my favorite point-and-click adventure game (even beating out King’s Quest and Monkey Island…crazy!). And although I was pretty wary about playing...
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China, Part 3: Schrödinger’s Bootlegs, Ancient Sayings, and…Games That Look Pretty Good?
Blog Posts by David Donovan on 1 ...it can pose an obstacle to localization. Still, I’m surprised no one has tried to take some of those Chinese sayings and given them the Monkey Island insult-based sword-fight treatment....
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[NSFW] GameCola’s Most Essential/Influential Games of All Time (L-R)
Columns by Nathaniel Hoover on 9 ...the time. Some adventure series had off-color humor as their main selling point (Leisure Suit Larry, Simon the Sorcerer), while others boasted incredibly difficult and convoluted puzzle solutions (Monkey Island,...
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Q&AmeCola: Staff-Created Content
Columns by GameCola Staff on 2 ...You can read all about that in my gamedev blog, if you’d like. My biggest thing, though, has been Life in the Dorms—which I like to think of as “Monkey...
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The GameCola End-of-Decade Awards
Columns by GameCola Staff on 7 ...Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (2009) Honorable Mentions: Final Fantasy III (2006), Super Mario 64 DS (2004) Best Character of All Time A seagull from The Legend of Zelda:...
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Deponia (PC)
Reviews by Paul Franzen on 3 ...coming of Monkey Island,” it’s never, ever, actually been true. …Until now. Deponia is the story of a self-centered jerk living in a land of garbage—but unlike in, say, Runaway,...