Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side

Re:Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side by sgt on Saturday November 14, 2026 @07:59AM (#50496683)

I disagree, the VGA looked the best for me. The Amiga is close, but one has to go a notch down in graphics, I prefer the EGA low res for its charm. Not that the Amiga one didn't look great. I had much better audio on my Amiga 1200 running Monkey Island.

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Re:Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side by gpderetta on Saturday November 14, 2026 @08:35AM (#50496919)

The VGA does look the best. Still it is impressive that the Amiga version looked that close while having only 1/8th of the colors. Great use of palettes and dithering, I wonder if halfbrite was used.

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Re:Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side by snvzz on Saturday November 14, 2026 @12:57PM (#50499177)

I prefer Amiga.

Sure, it has less colors, but the overall feel is better.

Consider the character sprites, they seem to be based on EGA, which was the original intent, and it shows. See also the scumm bar. There's some ugly shiny highlights in VGA which Amiga version doesn't have. The overall graphical language is simply better, despite less colors. Whoever made these artistic decisions knew what they were doing..

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