The Monkey Island games have been among my all-time favourites since the very first part of the series. 2009 on April — before Tales of Monkey Island was announced — I spontaneously decided to produce a homage in form of a text adventure. I took a WordPress plugin I could adapt to my purposes and launched Escape from ASCII Island™ (German) a couple of days later.

A few months after that, I @wondered whether Boris Schneider-Johne would be willing to translate the game into English. In case you didn’t know, Boris translated a number of titles for Lucasfilm Games between 1987 and 1992, among them Monkey Island 1 und 2. I wasn’t really expecting an answer, but only five minutes later I reveiced a DM via Twitter, and after a brief exchange of e-mails, Boris agreed. As a result, I’m very happy to present the English version of “Monkey Island 5: Escape from ASCII Island™“.

[ascii=*** Monkey Island 5: Escape from ASCII Island™ ***
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Guybrush Threepwood is stranded on ASCII Island™.

This island is roughly 500 square feet large, or should

we say small. The center of the island features a large

palmtree that seems to touch the sky. The water around

the island is knee-deep and has the usual flotsam

flotsaming around.

 

Inventory: photograph, pegleg, corkscrew, small mirror

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You can play the game with the traditional text adventure vocabulary: examine, open, take, use, use x with y and lots (seriously, lots) more. Have fun, ye lousy pirates!