Sometimes I sit and listen to this theme in its many iterations and cry, it's hard to describe how it makes me feel, such joy and such sadness for growing older. It is deeply ingrained into my psyche from my childhood. It has an uplifting groove, but a melancholic melody which never fails to move me, Mr. Land is a genius and never gets enough praise.
mi o man I was nowhere near of being alive when this game came out but I still love listening to all the different versions and it kinda gives me nostalgia even tho I’ve never even played these. Kinda weird
I never played "Monkey Island". Some time ago I heard the tune by coincidence, downloaded it and it still haunts me. However, the original version with the steel drums is better.
@@qgon9378 FF8 FTW! Though to be honest I don't know if I could pick a single favourite game. FF8 and Shining Force II would be close to the top, but there are so many games I spent so many hours in. Metal Gear Solid and MGS2: Sons of Liberty... Gran Turismo 2/3... the entire Ys series!
I played this game with my dad before I even knew how to walk properly, this game is actually what got me into PC gaming as a kid growing up with nothing else but Monkey Island games and The Cars videogame. Since then I've fallen in love with PC gaming in my 20 years of life, but I still keep coming back to this spectacular soundtrack. I have played maybe closer to 300 games in my lifetime, yet this one just holds an entirely different place in my heart. The setting, the music, the narrative, the dialogue, all of it just clicks so differently. I actually have not played Curse of Monkey Island yet, I recently played Secret of the Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2 and their Special Editions (Which are awesome by the way) but I haven't played Curse of the Monkey Island. I played it as a kid, but because I didn't know any English (hell, I barely spoke my own language lol) I can't remember anything about it. Maybe this being recommended to me again is a sign to go play the damn game.
same, but 35 years ago...this song not only started a revolution in using computers to create music but was a high standard for all video game music that came after.
When I'm on my deathbed, I'll request the Monkey Island to be played. I don't think there's a single melody that can take me back to my childhood quite like this.
I get shivers and tears every single time I listen to this, the video adding the very first game footage is gold, played the game when I was around 10 on Atari, love the new versions, glad so many people love it too 🙂
Un mix d'amore e tristezza.......amore per l'infanzia felice trascorsa nei pomeriggi infiniti in compagnia di Guybrush e tristezza per il troppo tempo trascorso e che non ritornerà mai più..........
I think that older games like this completely blow modern games out the water. Yes, the graphics are "better" but you just can't beat on old classic or an original. I used to have a PC from 1993, but in 2001 when I was 12 my dad threw it away, I was devastated and got really angry and upset. The annoying thing was, it still worked, he even threw away all the floppy disk games that went with it! I have been searching for a new computer for over 20 years now, I just can't seem to find that old PC anywhere. Old games are so much fun to play and I don't have any up to date consoles either, the newest console I have is a PS2 and I'm saving for a PS1 for nostalgias sake!
Steam Workshop on PC have all the Monkey Island games, and you dont need an old computer! Today - most older games can be played on a new computer - you just gotta tweak some setting sometimes, but many games have been remade/fixed to work with newer computers - like the Monkey Island series :)
@@Ocarina_87 I know, thanks. I just really enjoyed my old PC! I hade the original games to go with it. My dad keeps throwing my things away and it's really annoying. Sometime I would wake up and things had vanished into thin air. I've lost so much thanks to him, including games I can no longer find in the shops. I know you can download them but I prefer having the actual game in material, thanks though! ( :
What venue was this at? It looks a bit too small to be the NAC, and too big to be the Bronson Center. Way too small to be in the Corel Centre... Arts Court maybe? Though I think the stage in there is fairly small as well. Scratching my head trying to figure it out!
This is weird, if that's all the players on stage then they're using a backing track, because some instruments are missing. You can hear when the flute and strings come in, but the steel drum, marimba, rhythm guitar.... they're all missing. So no very "Video Games Live" as you'd expect, unless those other instruments are not on camera (which would be weird, considering we can see the maestro).
The game has a pirate theme and pirates around that time were commonly operating in/around the Carribbean. Jamaica is in the Carribbean, therefore the connection between calypso/reggae music and pirates have been present for a while
