Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side

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68 points | by maximilianburke 4 hours ago

7 comments

  • guidedlight 10 minutes ago
    It’s an incredible that graphics artists provide 13+ variations on the same artwork, especially without the help of modern tools.
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    • mjg59 0 minutes ago
      I think there's only really two real sets of artwork - the EGA and VGA releases. Some (EGA running on CGA or Hercules, VGA running on EGA) dither down the artwork rather than there being extra artwork for there, and the other versions are largely derived from whichever of EGA and VGA was a better fit for the target platform. Still a meaningful amount of work (especially reducing the 256 colour VGA art to 32 colours for the Amiga port), but it's the kind of thing that happened in games porting in that era.
  • pshc 44 minutes ago
    Nice. I want to hear each rendition of the opening title theme.
  • mr_tox 1 hour ago
    ux 10/10 I couldn't have imagined a better one
  • FabCH 1 hour ago
    That’s pretty cool.

    Technically not all. The anniversary re-release is missing.

  • kristophph 50 minutes ago
    neat :thumbsup:
  • vee-kay 1 hour ago
    [dead]