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The “Rescue on Fractalus!” Commemorated

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From the “other sites doing our work us” department: Eurogamer has posted an article on David Fox & Co’s Rescue on Fractalus! The game turns 40 this year, or, as we like to refer to it around here, “We’re still doing this?!” Anyway, go read while contemplating your life choices.

31 Jan, 2025 in M by Rémi
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VGHF Goes to the Library

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The Video Game History Foundation – famous around these parts for their Grade A Ronzo Interrogations – has soft-launched a digital library in early access. It’s basically what you’d expect: A huge collection of video game materials, much of which hasn’t been seen before. Read all about it, then check out some Lucas stuff.

31 Jan, 2025 in M by Rémi
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Skeleton Crew Pushes StarWars.com to Acknowledge Monkey Island 21 Jan, 2025 / 1 comment

LucasArts News

By Rémi

As recently mentioned, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is basically all about Monkey Island, something StarWars.com has decided to double down on in a brand-spanking new story:

“I was taken aback to hear from Doug since it would have been decades since we had crossed paths at Lucasfilm,” Purcell tells StarWars.com. Purcell’s career has included creating the Eisner Award-winning Sam & Max franchise as well as work in games and animation, illustrating the cover art for the first two Monkey Island games and working on stories for Pixar including writing the screenplays for Brave as well as Cars on the Road. On the phone with Watts, Ford, and Skeleton Crew producer Chris Buongiorno, Purcell learned about the team’s influences for the latest Disney+ Star Wars series. “I wondered how they came up with my name to do a Star Wars piece and they mentioned my Monkey Island game covers for LucasArts. I hadn’t really done [anything] Star Wars themed besides my parody Sam & Max strips for the LucasArts newsletter, back in the day. What a pleasure and privilege it was being asked by this creative team to contribute something that ties into this fun, nutty and enthusiastic series.”

Well then! Go read the whole story.

Source: StarWars.com

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Skeleton Crew gets the Mojo attention it desperately wants with Steve Purcell art

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We've been apathetically tossing lumps of sand at the beached, bloated corpse of Star Wars for so long that it releasing anything pleasant was going to be a surprise. Count on Steve Purcell to find some blubber on that bone, yanking this poster for the Disney+ show Star Wars: Skeleton Crew and endearing us to whoever's commissioned it.

16 Jan, 2025 in M by Kroms
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A Bat’s Tale whistle stop tour continues [, elsewhere] 06 Jan, 2025 / 0 comments

Autumn Moon Entertainment News

By Jason

Polish adventure game enthusiast “vicek83”, maintainer of The World of Adventure Games YouTube channel, has rung in the new year by inviting various adventure game developers to talk a little about the projects they’re working on in 2025.

Bill Tiller is on hand, representing A Vampyre Story: A Bat’s Tale, and conveniently his bit comes right at the start of the hour-long video:

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Source: The World of Adventure Games

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In Case You Missed It: The Secrets of The Secret of Monkey Island 03 Jan, 2025 / 4 comments

House of Mojo News

By Webmonkey

The Secret of Monkey Island turns thirty-five (35) this year, which means some… many, actually… of us should take a long look in the mirror and contemplate how we’ve spent the last three-and-a-half decades.

But screw that – instead, we decided to post a short article with some of the weird secrets and easter eggs found in the first Monkey Island game.

It has been interesting learning over the past few years that the small trivia we thought was common knowledge apparently isn’t. Which, again, is why we should take a minute or two and ask ourselves if we’ve lived our best lives.

That’s for another day, though! Now go read!

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Monkey Island Web Games Wash Over You 03 Jan, 2025 / 0 comments

Community News

By Rémi

I will admit that here in the year of our lord, 2025, I would not have expected web games to still be a “thing.” Yet, a “thing” they are, and recently, two Monkey Island games have popped up – the first of them right here at Mojo. Introducing Monkey Island Frantic, a screenshot guessing game that’s, well, frantic.

It’s a simple concept: Small pieces of a screenshot fly across the screen, and you have to guess which location it is from. And, of course, you can share your score over on the forums.

Meanwhile, over at The Legend of Monkey Island, you can find a Heardle clone called Guess That Tune.

Once again, you can brag about your results on our forums because that’s just the kind of person you are.

And, of course, our old games are waiting for ya: Mojole and a port of sorts of the Return to Monkey Island trivia game.

There, your weekend is set.

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