Monkey Island news for the whole family.
It’s sort of fitting, isn’t it? A site with a 2002 design should host sections dedicated to games with a late-80s/early-90s vibe – in this case, Thimbleweed Park . That is to say, we now have three new sections for the OG Thimbleweed Park , Delores , and, perhaps most importantly, Thimbleweed Park 2 . There isn’t a whole lot of content for the latter – yet – but you bet we’ll add it as it comes.…
You heard it here… well, maybe not first, but probably not last: Ron is getting back into the Thimbleweed Park game . As is a chunk of familiar names. The good news is that we just started production on Thimbleweed Park 2, due out in early 2028. We will self-publish with the help of a private investor. Mark Ferrari, Gary Winnick, David Fox, Octavi Navarro, Robert Megone, and others from the…
Some of you may remember print magazines – publications released on a regular schedule with a set number of pages. Back in ’97 – the year of The Curse of Monkey Island – they were all the rage, and we had a history of transcribing some of them here at the Bar. For those who’ve never done that before, know that it’s a pain. As this is our thirtieth anniversary, we have, against our better judgment,…
Claude has one, Gemini has one, so I’ll be damned if The SCUMM Bar shouldn’t have one. Introducing The Monkey Island Side Bar, which is exactly what it sounds like: A browser sidebar for the connoisseur of anything Monkey Island . I mean, sure, I just threw this together to have a browser-based Monkey Island jukebox, which may or may not benefit you, too. 700+ random tracks, without going to the…
Let’s just toss out some weird scans today. You know, for fun. First, if you haven’t checked out The Secret of Monkey Island ’s SEGA Mega-CD Manual , you should give it a gander. Slotting in LeChuck from Monkey Island 2 was a bold move. It reminds me of the Technopolis scans that keep going viral these past few months… Tecnopolis Secret of Monkey Island Review An FM Towns review of The Secret of…
Look, nobody in their right mind would claim the early aughts were particularly great in general, but for the Monkey Island fandom, those were the salad days. Young and innocent, the future looked bright, and… well, it came to a booming halt as we all know. But enough doom and gloom! Let’s take a dive into nostalgia and see what the world looked like then. First, “ The Revelation .” Up until the…
Speaking of retro: Back in the day, we used to host a handful of Monkey Island sites, which, in retrospect, seems a bit redundant. We were hosted by Mojo , so why couldn’t they just have provided the service? Anyway! We did host sites, and one of them was The Brimstone Beach Club, which had a very short lifespan. During that time, though, they did produce one important feature that has since been…
As we’re limping toward our thirtieth anniversary, we decided to resurrect an old classic: The Summer of Retro! A season of rediscovering old content hidden deep in our backups, as well as doling out new old stuff. You get the point. So, what better way to kick it off than a look back at the original Summer of Retro? Things were a bit different in 2004, of course, when August would see thirty-four…
He might have been best known for his numerous Star Wars roles – not to mention Powerpuff Girls and Kim Possible – but Tom Kane also made a memorable Monkey Island appearances as Pegnose Pete, Captain Rottingham, and the Flying Welshman. Kane retired after a stroke in 2021; he was 64 at the time of his passing.
Give yourself a pat on the back if you get that reference – it means that you’re both old and alive. Ostensibly. Anyway, where was I… Oh, yeah, AIs! We’ve been seeing a weird uptick in walkthrough visits lately, and, after glancing at the AIs’ feeble attempts to provide game hints, we think we’ve figured out why. Turns out stuff we wrote in 1996 is beyond the bots’ grasp, and… Well, I just wrote…