Game Info |
Game Media |
EGA
Amiga
VGA Floppy
VGA CD-ROM/FM Towns
256 colors and CD-ROM Red Book music. Icon inventory akin to Monkey Island 2 added. Stan’s shipyard has music, and previously quiet locations have sound ambiance. Stump joke was removed. There are also some smaller bugs with the Mêlée clock, cannibal dialogue, etc., which were later fixed in ScummVM. Have a look at some other, weirder differences.
The FM Towns version looks the same but has butter-smooth scrolling.
The Special Edition
EGA Demo
Amiga Demo
VGA Floppy vs. VGA CD
There is a surprising amount of differences between the floppy and CD version. Notice how Smirk’s cigar doesn’t emit smoke, for example. There are also brightness differences, which experts have described as: MI1 doesn’t have dynamic lighting but it does change the brightness of sprites on a per scene basis to suit the scene. The CD edition of course missed this, in a long line of re-release fuck ups.
Perhaps the oddest difference: After rebounding from the rubber trees on Monkey Island, Guybrush says Rubber tree.
in the floppy edition. In the CD-ROM version: Rubber tree!
Visual proof here.