Tales of Monkey Island (PC and Mac) will be released in five monthly serials by Telltale Games beginning July 7th in the same fashion as the recenter Sam & Max and Strongbad games.
More info here; LINK (http://www.telltalegames.com/monkeyisland) and here; LINK (http://www.lucasarts.com/games/monkeyisland/)
Oi that's cool! Would love to play the original in a non-SCUMM version :)
I saw this a couple of days ago in their news letter, and it's still sinking in. I'm personally more excited about the Lucasarts game than the Telltale one. I love the new sam and max games they really keep the sense of humour of the original, but nothing has ever quite matched a nice 2D Lucasart point and click. I hope they realise that they can still churn out games like curse of monkey island and they'll sell. The graphics are still great, story is top notch. I honestly don't care about 3D, it's often better without, although games like The longest journey show it can be done.
This is great news and I'm very excited.
Actually, it seems you can play it the oldstyle aswell.
You can switch between old and new.
It's in the movie about the game.
Hell yes! This should be good.
They are also remaking The Secret of Monkey Island with updated graphics, spoken dialogues and other extras including the ability to switch between old and new like DuVeL mentioned.
I bought Sam 'n' Max Season 1 & 2 a few weeks ago when it was on a weekend offer.
Got Season 1 from Amazon as it was cheaper than the Steam price, but Season 2 was far cheaper on Steam.
I'm loving the humour. There are some excellent lines in there.
To be honest I've had ScummVM (http://www.scummvm.org/) installed on a few machines for a while, but never got around to really playing anything on it after dusting off some very old CD's to put the games on (including Day of the Tenticle, Full Throttle, Monkey Island 1&2 and the original Sam 'n' Max).
Now, how do I drag my Amiga collection across to get Zak McKracken, Loom and others across.
Free Monkey Island Episode available NOW! (http://www.telltalegames.com/community/blogs/id-504)
Link here; LINK (http://www.telltalegames.com/monkeyisland)