LucasArts Archive Series: The Monkey Island Archives

For Monkey Island 1, you need to have your cd-rom hooked up to your soundcard. If you can play music cd's from your computer, then you should be able to get sound from monkey island 1.

Monkey Island 2 was not reprogrammed to use the cd soundtracks and you may not hear any sound. You need to copy the contents of the monkey island 2 folder from the cd to your hard drive. Right click on the ms-dos shortcut entitled monkey2 and go to properties. Uncheck the box read-only. Then go to the "program" tab and in the "cmd line" textbox it should say Monkey2.exe. There are three flags you can enter after monkey2.exe: a, r, or i (example: monkey2.exe i). These flags tell the program what soundcard to use. Use "a" if you have an adlib or soundblaster compatible card. "r" if you have a roland sound card. Or "i" for your computer's internal speaker, which sound like beeps when your computer boots up. On my pentium 4 with a soundblaster live! I couldn't get the sound to work with the "a" flag but the "r" flag and "i" flag worked. But on my pentium 3 with a generic soundcard the "a" and "i" flag worked but the "r" flag didn't. Play around and see which one works for you. The music doesn't sound very smooth because your soundcard is only emulating the old soundcards, but at least you can hear that cool monkey island music whilst playing the game.

Also, you can listen to the cd on your cd player. But skip track one, it's the game data.


THE FIRST WAS THE BEST   February 26, 2002
 2 out of 13 found this review helpful

HELLO MY NAME IS GIANNIS.
I(MY PARENTS)BOUGHT ME MY FIRST PC BACK IN 1992(14 YEARS OLD AT THAT TIME). IT WAS A HOT DEAL AT THAT TIME:A 386SX PROCESSOR!!!!!!THE PACKAGE INCLUDED 5 GAMES. ONE OF THEM WAS "THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND", THE FIRST OF THE MONKEY ISLAND'S FROM LUCASFILMS(LUCASARTS BACK THEN)I INSTALLED THAT GAME FIRST AND STARTED IT. IT WAS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 4-5PM.THE NEXT TIME I LOOKED AT MY BEDROOM'S CLOCK THE TIME WAS 11PM!!!!!!!!!!!!!IT WAS AMAZING..!!!
IT IS THE MOST CLEVER AND ADVENTURUS GAME I EVER PLAYED. I REMEMBER HOW I FOUND OUT THAT THE "MONKEY ISLAND 2:LECHUCK'S REVENGE" WAS GOING TO COME OUT AND I COULDN'T WAIT TO GET IT.
I STRONGLY RECCOMMEND THIS GAME FOR ALL THE ADVENTURE-PLAYRES IN THE WORLD. I HAVEN'T BEING AROUND A PC FOR ALMOST 6 YEARS!NOW I FINALLY BOUGHT MY OWN PC AND THE FIRST GAME THAT I BOUGHT FROM AMAZON.COM WAS A BOX COLLECTION OF THE FIRST 3 "MONKEY ISLAND" GAMES. I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL I GET THEM IN MY HANDS.GET THEM. THE "MONKEY ISLANDS" ARE THE BEST PC-ADVENTURE GAMES EVER. I GIVE THEM 5-STARS*****.

THANK YOU.

P.S.: I WOULD LIKE TO THANK AMAZON.COM FOR LETTING ME EXPRESS MY THOUGHTS ON THIS,I REALLY DO.


After all these years, it's STILL around!   February 26, 2002
 6 out of 9 found this review helpful

Secret of Monkey Island came out near a decade ago, and it's STILL the same classic it ever was!!

This package comes with all three of the first games to boot, and they truly are a joy to play! Forget smooning over the old graphics. GET OVER IT!!!!! Enjoy it for its humor and charm!! If you can't enjoy it for THAT without overlooking the graphics, then you are S.T.U.P.I.D. beyond comprehension and need to GROW UP.

The Curse of Monkey Island, being the more recent of the three, is more modernized in terms of graphics, along with full voice and music. Remember Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle? Well, maybe you don't. But if you do, you'll definitely see the similarities.

The conversation between Guybrush and Murray the Skull still splits my side even though I've seen it countless times. Murray is by-far the most hilarious character in the game. He's this demonic skull you meet in the beginning of the game that tries *way* too hard to be evil and repulsive.