Secret of Monkey Island - very old CGA version

[Pai3000]

This is how I remember it. 

[Taking1n1]

omg its monkey island on NES blue edition!!

[funk192]

is this the 16 colour floppy disk version in CGA mode?

[Alkahest]

Four colors, limited sound capabilities... and still one of the finest games of all time, even in this format. They really don't make 'em like this anymore.

4:30 -- Afraid to take a bath? Hah, as if any pirate worth their sea-salt would ever bathe! If that's the best you can do, LeChuck, then it's no wonder you always fail.

[Rimpianto]

I played this game for the first time in CGA and the last time 2 years ago!! :D

[franronin]

This is how I played it, in a green 11" screen. Still think of it as the game i enjoyed the most BY FAR. Best videogame ever!

[olafurhh03]

Monkey island has the best soundtrack ever.

[chemicalJK]

there u have it kids...there were games way before u were even thought of by your parents let alone being born

[VoidKeeper]

I had no freakin idea there was a CGA version of monkey island XD

[Skaos91]

i played this one :D it is awesome xD

[russologia]

Amiga video id KFPFFZs5m_w

[lucinos19]

I had played this game on CGA and a yellow monitor with no sound blaster. Way long ago. Incredible.

[v4lkyr]

that's just hardcore.

[Pinksugarelephant]

Oh my god I freaking love this, this was the sound of my childhood!

[ratix98]

4 colors only and it still looks glorious

[ratix98]

@LittleMonsterLove internal pc speaker. 3-voice sounds a little nicer

[jr2nd]

looks more like a spectrum port lol

[JustMe1001]

Oh wow! This takes me back to my childhood! I learnt how to read playing this game!

[Pistacheli]

Increíble gracias por rescatar este gran juego,  ¡que nostalgia!

[Edlewis66]

Thank god I owned an Amiga ,lol

[speewave]

this song can't even suck on a one channel PC-Speaker.... thats engineering for ya

[AeronDylan]

best game ever ! even the humor in it is great

[hdofu]

CGA, thats takes me back

[spookyboy07]

Four Colours! It's so impossible today! I had the 256-colours-version, but only a EGA-video-card. I was so glad to use the VGA-to-EGA-emulator which this version includes! :-D

[kraut1x]

Back in the days I would be glad to have CGA... I only had Hercules ;)

[bugauga1]

I remember playing Space Quest and Larry 1 with these graphics and sounds...oh man.

[ANTIcoFilms]

2:56 Poster says: COW MARRY

[sleepersoundstudio]

this is how i had to play it! on my monochrome monitor..

[ImperialProductions]

The CGA version may as well have been monochrome...

[exitido]

Best song on a speaker ever

[ImoenOfTelengard]

What if back then the Chinese made all the electronics like they do now? The CGA card would have only lasted a quick moment in time as VGA cards would quickly dropped in price $100's of dollars each month. I doubt that with cheap Chinese labor, the CGA card would have lasted as long as it did. It would have just been an obscure foot note in computer science history.

[Manimal347]

@ImoenOfTelengard

Surely you jest. By the mid 80's, CGA and Hercules cards were commodity items, mostly manufactured in Taiwan, and sold under a myriad names. By the late 80's, a Hercules or CGA board could easily cost less money than a full-price game, while an MDA card might cost about a dinner for two. Why did CGA last so long? Well, it could use cheaper monitors, back in an era when they were pricey. Plus, it needed 16K board ram, not the 64-256K of EGA! Hercules? $~100 B&W monitors!

[Manimal347]

@ImoenOfTelengard

Oh, and by the time Monkey Island came out, straight VGA and sluggish SVGA cards with just 256K onboard were very cheap to buy. But... but... people would also need to buy a new monitor, too. VGA color monitors started at an easy $500+ todays cash for a low-end and wicked blurry Korean or Taiwanese set fixed to 640x480! Not everyone played enough games to justify the expense.

[ImoenOfTelengard]

GOD, I love CGA! There is something classic about having four of the most ugliest colors on the screen at the same time. I had the CGA card for such a long time that I actually got used to it! VGA cards were an upwards of $500 for the longest time and could never afford one. Graphics cards didn't drop in price as quickly back then as they do now.

[maestro1488]

MI and cga graphic?? pity, i didn´t know about it in 1991.. i knew only the VGA-version

[tetsuorocks]

yep.. this is how I played the game back in the day. Terrible but thats all we had.

[MrGameboy1989]

at 0:56  earwax productions LOL

[Terestai]

This is how I remember playing it back when I was 10. Not only were the oars impossible to see, but you couldn't read the map, the recipe, or the Marley dog warning. The first two were blurry, the latter had white-on-white text. And those were the days before you could pop online and figure out the problem--you had to solve the puzzles through trial and error unless you had a friend with EGA graphics.

Ah, the memories! :)

[L2GB]

OMG PC Speaker sounds better than Roland xDDD

[Celeon999A]

Ahh those old times when a VGA or even a sound card were expensive and luxorious items that changed your gaming world.

And today you can play Monkey Island on a cell phone thats dozens of times faster than those old desktop computers...... and fits into your pocket :-D

[mufflern]

good old times...

[GenghisKhan44]

I've also emulated it in monochrome.

[lucinos19]

I had played MI on CGA *and* with monitor without colors!

what I remember was that it was that it was difficult to see the oars. lol (when I played again later on VGA it looked like a totally different game)

other adventure games were much worse on CGA. I liked MI back then also because it was good on CGA.

[jobrook911]

They actually do a decent job of putting that PC speaker to good use.

I remember some real shockers in my day.

[kehny]

is that screen in CMYK instead of rgb?

[DonitsiMasuka]

haha awesome :d

[12al34]

The intro is catchier with the pc speaker.

[hillylem]

wie grausam. Da lob ich mir die Amiga Version

[zakaumite]

one channel music... respect :)

[Ruinah]

I remember playing MI on an ancient IBM PC w/ the old green screen. Something about that 16 shades-of-green-on-black color was just so impressive back then. Wonder if DOSBox can emulate that effect?

[Novetrix]

It's amazing what one can do with a PC Speaker XD

[Guedzilla]

Simply beautiful!

[yllelder]

2 colores, fantástico xD

[lNFERNO]

@yllelder en realidad son 4 :P

[luqddevil]

Pure magic :))))))

[studiospecialplace]

That's how I had to play for about seven years. Then my parents finally bought a new PC... a Pentium. Quite an upgrade. ;)

[nrdesign1991]

I prefer 256 color with Gameblaster/Adlib

[Camilo21986]

this is the kind of sound fx that i like. And look at the graphics... great!!!

[Acadianiste]

oh yes, people keep your old computers! take care of them, fix them as you would an old buik!

[2bakJ]

eeeeeerk !!!

fortunately i had an amiga !!

[Gamewitzer]

Bah, I've finished this game in black & white back in the day.

[PsychoTails]

beautiful 8 bit music <3

[OMA2k]

@PsychoTails I suppose someone told you already, but this is not an 8-bit game. It's a 16-bit game with "low settings" (so it looks as if you are using an old 4-color CGA card). The music sounds so simple because PCs didn't have a good sound system until sound cards came along (PCs were initially meant as office machines rather than for games, thus the poor sound capabilities).

[ivanov545]

@PsychoTails it's pc speaker. there was 1bit only.

[piajeno]

I love the pc speaker version of all the games of that era...

[Mindman111]

The old man looks like the Nosferatu with these graphics :D

[cetko13]

i want to know how to play MI using internal speakers!!! x3

[DulvluSpa]

I've seen a version of this game with literally only 2 colors in the entire thing... Brown and black.

[hoques1432]

@DulvluSpa It was probably played on a monochrome monitor with a hercules graphics card or something.

[apex2000]

aww monkey island, what them beasts do to you... dont worry ill get the PC version adn save you. *hugs*

LOL yes satires but seriously. ouch

[Mindman111]

What version was used for this? The VGA or CGA version?

[phreakindee]

Hmm, well considering the title of the video is CGA VERSION...

[Mindman111]

Well, but there is actually no CGA version, and the description says that it is emulated. So there has to be a normal version he used. (I guess it's the EGA version though).

[rybarczykbr]

@Mindman111 There is a CGA/EGA version. This one :)

Also works on Hercules graphics card.

[AlacarLeoricar]

I freaking love the internal pc speaker version of the song.

[OSDolphin]

@AlacarLeoricar Much better than Vampire Killer on PC Speakers. That made me want to puke...

[VitasVarnas]

Could anyone PLEASE tell me what CGA stands for?

[smeezekitty]

it stands for color graphics adapter and is my absolute favorite!

cannot get tierd of the black cyan magenta white!

[SJD999]

Lol

[sevilla14]

This is as old school as it gets, and i love it! =D

[drhouseisthebest]

the musics well mint

cnt belive it acully as sound my newer version as no sound at all >:(

[Daco65]

if only scummvm could get the speaker to work :( (it wont stop using the real audio bastard that it is >_> )

[spacequestfreak]

This looks like something on ZX Spectrum, lol

[dvibe]

Worse than on ZX Spectrum actually.. Both graphics- and sound wise..

[nomarch]

nope, the spectrum may of had more colours but it suffered from terrible blocking and trying to overlay one colour on another looked utterly horrible, also the music is much better than anything a spectrum 48k could of produced. dont believe me? go look up the specs for spectrum 48k and an ibm 8086 CGA.

[dvibe]

May be so with graphics, but the ZX Spectrum 128k had quite good sound capabilities actually..

[nomarch]

*sigh* but they never made a 128k version of monkey island so your point is moot.

[dvibe]

*sigh* I didn't really try to make any point more than that the sound of the zx spectrum 128k are better than what was achieved on this demonstration. .. but okay, I was wrong about the graphics. Didn't know that "it suffered from terrible blocking and trying to overlay one colour on another looked utterly horrible". You learn as long as you live :)

[spacequestfreak]

Wow, I didn't realize one comment could spark such an argument about old computers.

[Muffinfordinner]

lol

[Stormy2021x]

I played the EGA version with PC speaker sound and with the keyboard, back in the day when mice were optional.

Was the best music that ever came over my PC speaker.

[tarkeke]

yeah damn.. that's right!! I forgot when I actually had to use the keyboard to steer the pointer lol =3

man...I still love games, but looking back at this really gives a reminder to how magic games was in the old days XD

monkey island ftw! =3:B

[Zanik99]

respect

[zoppola15]

i can remember playing the CGA version when they released it, damn i'm getting old.

[jonathontree]

This music is AWESOME!

[Antphoneigh]

lol how times have changed!

[poopskinTheLiar]

Woah, MI WORKED in CGA?! that's a new one!

[poopskinTheLiar]

I must say, this actually looks pretty good for CGA.

[Flophole]

Love the music

[nfistfu]

to think they've gone from having it in four colours to having it in...... like... eleventy billion colours!

[clorion]

I've been getting the (nostalgia-fed, biased) feeling that for the past few years the stress is on graphics rather than gameplay. It also seems to me that games aren't made to last anymore, they don't become part of a generation's collective memory, instead they become momentary .. I mean .. how many people would go lyric over current top games in, say, 20 years from now? Just a thought.

best regards

orion

[dentjoener]

@clorion I foresure can name one, and that's portal.

At least games were hard some years ago...

[knutfilms]

@clorion true story bro!

[v4lkyr]

@clorion

probably the most true and best comment on youtube I've read so far.

[Camilo21986]

@clorion exactly my point

[Chirbu]

The music sounds awesome. With even a simple PC speaker, it's still Monkey Island- who needs a sound card? 8D

[ryo80it]

I played this version on my 80286 16mhz! :D

[monikalovaz]

oh que bonito!!!!!!!!

[videogameaddict64]

It's things like this that make me feel ashamed to be as young as I am. I grew up on the 256 color version.

[unipegasusX]

I will cry. Love it!

[earlegray]

watching this video with just the noise of my computer to be heard reminds me of those many late nights back in the day. Absolutely LOVED this series.hope there's more

[HarryMatic]

Mate, HERCULES graphics are where it's at! Just black & white, no greys!

[laxativum]

this music is so fucking awesome even with ugly pcbeeper sound!

[Kiluu1971]

@laxativum PC Speaker sound is NOT ugly. Blasphemy!

[renmorpheus]

@Kiluu1971 Exactly, it's awsome, ah the bassline :)

[jinxxyy]

I think it's CGA Tandy version.

[jinxxyy]

Strange. Looks like ZX spectrum :)

[JB1912JB]

The spectrum had this beat  ; )

[galgadal]

With such as low settings you can feel the story! :D

[Dogmang]

Now that's REAL music.

[elramon]

Only 4 colours, this is art!

[Ekumvk]

Dam'n! GREAT

[JarlFrank]

Woah, this is lovely... I never played the CGA version, but it looks beautiful. Wakes nostalgia about late 80's games.

[mikeltejada]

Thank you so much!!!

So beautifull to watch it as we played it... and the sound is the best.

[Eruen]

The speaker version was magic :D

[Goldigin]

@Eruen this amazing thing with monophony :D

[coulthard1984]

masterpiece

[quintiliano]

Beautifull.. simply beautifull!! Lots of memories back there