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RetroAhoy: The Secret of Monkey Island
A roughly 75-minute video essay from Ahoy's RetroAhoy series on the making and history of The Secret of Monkey Island. It covers the small LucasArts team, the game's development and its sequel.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a well-made documentary-style history that gives context around the game and inspires replays.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Ahoy
- Topic
- monkey island game history
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Really looking forward to this. Back in the day I played it on my Amiga 500, but last year, after watching Retro Ahoys video [1] I got my old 486 out of the loft and bought a Roland MT-32 just to play it - highly …
nickt on Hacker News · 2022-04
In Return to Monkey Island – Coming 2022Do yourself a favor and watch this wonderful video essay historique on The Monkey Island series from Ahoy; [VIDEO]
FireInsight on Hacker News · 2022-09
In “Return to Monkey Island” is out todayFor those of you who are looking for some context, and have an hour to spare, Ahoy made a great documentary on YouTube about ‘The Secret of Monkey Island’ that touches on this topic. [0] The source material linked in this thread looks to be …
TimSchumann on Hacker News · 2020-11
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