The Secret of Monkey Island - any% speedrun [OLD] (

Got the incredible opportunity to showcase The Secret of Monkey Island on the GDQ Hotfix show Time Capsule 1990 edition, showing off cool/influential speedruns from 1990. AFAIK this was the FIRST time Monkey Island was shown on a GDQ stream. This run was blessed with marathon luck as we managed to get credit early as well as pretty fast sword sighting and catacombs. Far from a perfect run, but a new WR nonetheless. Forgive the, at times, awkward commentary. We didn't have much time to work things out, but shoutouts to thewoofs for holding it down with his excellent preparation.
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON the GDQ CHANNEL
" • Time Capsule 1990 Vol I "
Twitch: " / frozenspade "
Commentary: " / thewoofs "
Twitter: " / frozenspade "
Website: "frozenspade.tv"

[@Ayanami3rd]

You speedrun like a dairy farmer.

[@Laborejo]

How appropriate. You watch this video like a cow!

[@grandmyrk1383]

That's hillarious!🤣🤣🤣

[@guybrushthreepwood9363]

how appropriate you watch like a cow!

[@maxpreobrazhensky7124]

How appropriate, you watch speedruns like a cow.

[@candy2866]

How appropriate you speedrun like a cow

[@kcccc5682]

Excellent run! And you make it so entertaining too. It was a blast watching this live and I still come back to rewatch. Stuff of dreams this happening on GDQ.

[@frozenspade]

Well well well

[@grandmyrk1383]

Great run! It's great to see that these Point 'n Click games are still been played! I have always loved this genre of games and i have lots and lots of good memories with them! Lucas Arts games especially were my favorites(...and Beneath a Steel Sky, that's my number one!) Fate of Atlantis was actually the first game which i played through without any guides back in the day! That was when the Internet was just a baby and we had a furious Compaq with Pentium 75Mhz processor and 8Mb of ram! What a beast of a computer don't you think!🤣🤣

[@bstar777777]

"That's a new world record, oh my god that's..." That's what??? I need to know what that is!

[@frozenspade]

World Record fastest completion of The Secret of Monkey Island

[@dulli9057]

Schisch kebaaaaaaab!

[@KombatGod]

Great run! As the holder of a wr for a point-and-click game myself (yeah I'm bragging) I feel the most fun and interesting things about these are definitely the management of random events. Because honestly there's not much "skill" involved in regular gameplay compared to the usual action game, as long as you're accurate in the clicking; of course finding the optimal route is also fun but in a linear game like MI there's not a lot of wiggle room for strategy. Hollywood Monsters, the game I ran, has a lot of random events and also a few random puzzles (like a literal jigsaw one) and it was fun to personally develop the strategies for each. There also is a point where I used a "quicksave" strategy similar to yours.

[@AdLast]

Nice

[@T0mek87]

I took me like a year to beat this game for the first time, lol

[@reaper84]

Why are quick saves allowed in this category? Seems weird, since that's a mechanic outside of the original game.

[@frozenspade]

To make a long story short, they weren't always allowed. When I first developed the strategy, it ended up splitting the category and the community. I believe it is healthiest for our small community to just keep it to one main category.

[@seanstuchbery]

the original game had a mechanic which was pretty well the same thing anyway

[@reaper84]

@@seanstuchbery what mechanic was that? There was regular saving and loading, but I am pretty sure in MI1 it didn't work during conversations let alone sword fights.

[@benjaminsawicki6487]

How can I play the original version?

[@Rhiunlol]

They said on DOS, so I'm assuming they're running a virtual machine

[@tomer4566]

Arrrrr... if you be a pirate... arrr..

[@frozenspade]

We use ScummVM to run the game. You are going to need to find a copy of the game yourself.

[@ok-google.]

おｋ

[@DonEci]

Uh eh uh uhm uh äh hum

[@k.b.7718]

Lol at speedrunning a crippled, save-states butchered, manipulated game! What kind of shit is this?

[@recklessroges]

It's called, "having fun". You could try it some time ;-) /jk

[@seanstuchbery]

lol at saying lol at in 2023