The Somewhat Ambitious

We all saw how excited I was back in June when we first got wind of the imminent release of not just a new Monkey Island game, but also an updated, reimagined version of the original Monkey Island, replete with voice actors and new graphics. But this excitement was a little tempered by Lucasarts’ continued insistence on a PC-only release model. As a devoted Mac fanboy (Macbook, iPhone and iPod? Why yes, thank you very much) this was not the handiest state of affairs. I mean, sure I could run Bootcamp and all, and have Windows Vista jogging along at a better rate than most PC laptops (ah, the sweet taste of sneering superiority), but it didn’t really make life easy for my lazy and impoverished ass.

Until now. Oooooh. Exciting. Far earlier than predicted and with minimal fanfare, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition dropped into the iPhone App Store last night. It’s fully featured, touch controlled, capable of being zoomed in the usual fashion and can be switched from classic to updated versions with a two finger swipe across the screen. It is, in short, exactly the same as the PC version. It’ll set you back a tidy 999 cents and 350MB, but really, that’s a small price to pay for having such an amazing bit of video game history delivered to your phone. Your phone. Jesus. Six years ago I had a bulky black Nokia with a green and black display, space for 13 messages and a loose battery that had to be held in with brute force if you wanted to be able to read the screen. Now I get Monkey Island. As somebody said when I first bought my iPhone, “I love my iPhone more than any living thing”.

/Luke

[via OSX Reality]