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Amplifyed Adventurer Offline Formally known as "Sam S." Posts: 300 Down the hall on the 3rd right Gender:	Monkey shines 25.02.2007 at 23:57:47 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/
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Anthony YaBB Administrator Offline Nova Scotia, Canada Posts: 1367 Canada Gender:	Re: Monkey shines Reply #1 - 26.02.2007 at 20:00:28 No no no.... not that game! I had that on my old computer! I don't know what to say about it... it was totally okward!
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Reply #2 - 27.02.2007 at 00:56:43

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. Cool

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!

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Amplifyed Adventurer Offline Formally known as "Sam S." Posts: 300 Down the hall on the 3rd right Gender:	Re: Monkey shines Reply #3 - 27.02.2007 at 05:52:18 That's true, I just LOVED that game when I was little. I was close to being as obsessed as I am in MM.
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sherryl199 Explorer Offline Posts: 227 Wilmington, NC USA Gender:	Re: Monkey shines Reply #4 - 27.02.2007 at 09:16:58 How about Lode Runner? My obsession in an earlier life.
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Psychotronic Explorer Offline Posts: 174 Alaska Gender:	Re: Monkey shines Reply #5 - 27.02.2007 at 10:08:01 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.
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sherryl199 Explorer Offline Posts: 227 Wilmington, NC USA Gender:	Re: Monkey shines Reply #6 - 02.03.2007 at 04:44:32 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.
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VernJensen YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 1064 Los Angeles, CA Gender:	Re: Monkey Shines Reply #7 - 02.03.2007 at 09:10:20 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.
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Reply #8 - 02.03.2007 at 09:20:19

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'.

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Psychotronic Explorer Offline Posts: 174 Alaska Gender:	Re: Monkey shines Reply #9 - 02.03.2007 at 11:01:57 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.
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