This is one of my favorite games of all time I just remembered. The strange thing was, I realized it was by vern! It's his first creation and a lot like MM. Check it out and see what you think! (you need classic to download)http://www.fantasoft.com/mshq/

No no no.... not that game!  :o I had that on my old computer! I don't know what to say about it... it was totally okward!

It wasn't by me. Rather, I was a level designer for it... I did the "Spooked" and "In the Swing" worlds. The odd thing is, from talking with the artist for Monkey Shines recently, I learned that that game was *far* more successful than Midnight Mansion has been so far. Which strikes me as odd, because I think Midnight Mansion is a much better game, but then again I'm biased.  8-)

I think Monkey Shines sold mostly to young kids. So maybe Midnight Mansion is just too hard for some kids, and therefore didn't sell as well to them? I don't know. Weird.

P.S. Compare Monkey Shine's level editor to Midnight Mansions's. The Monkey Shines one is SO hard to use by comparison! And it used to have lots of crashing bugs when I was making levels on it years ago... one time it crashed my computer so hard, that it destroyed the entire world I had designed up until that point, and I had to start all over!

That's true, I just LOVED that game when I was little. I was close to being as obsessed as I am in MM.

How about Lode Runner? My obsession in an earlier life.

Yes! Lode Runner! That was one of the first games I ever really loved. I made a whole series of levels with the level editor in that game, too. There was a story to it and everything. Brilliant game.

Sigh. Just wrote a post on the Lode Runner thread - there was also a puzzle game that involved the number 3 being lost in the computer. You had to solve a bunch of pretty good puzzles to rescue it. One of the earlier interactive games.

I believe you're referring to "Three in Three" -- one of the early color Mac games. (If it even was color... I forget.) I played the very beginning of it once, but never got too far, but I've heard good things about it.

Yes, Three in Three - black and white and a lot of fun. The computer owner in that game looks so much like the man at the computer in MM&M.  3 in3 had some really interesting puzzles. At the time it seemed a breakthrough in Mac games. I think we 'survived' gamewise with Three in Three, then Lode Runner (original) and Kaboom. Lode Runner was a primitive MM - levels, skill and 'the hero'.

Whoops. I did the Lode Runner thread first, too. Anyway, 3 in Three was great. There was another one called The Fool's Errand that was pretty neat, too. But my first computer game addiction had to be Wizardry.

After Psychotronic put in the first Lode Runner post I made a new topic about it to try to move the LR conversation out of the Monkey shines topic.  I didn't find a way to move single posts between topics.  The reason I did this was that some people get irritated when one goes off-topic in their threads (I'm not saying this applies to Sam Skelton).  It seems not to be an success.

Is there a Mac OS X version of "Monkey Shines" at all ??

I remember it being OS 8 or something around that time..... if there's a new one, I'd like to play it !!

No, it never got updated. The guy updating the web site even put in a link to Midnight Mansion, since Monkey Shines player who can't play anymore might want to check out MM instead.

It's all on classic, but they have a newer one called gorrila warfare

VernJensen wrote on 07.03.2007 at 01:26:07:

No, it never got updated.

That's too bad....   :(

Nice game that is, and it will remain that way for awhile.  :)