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The important question at hand here: When and how did you expose your nieces and nephews to Monkey Island and how did you introduce it to them? :D

I would really like to share this experience with kids I know but I find it hard to find the right time and way to show it to them and to get them to play. Did you play it with them? Or just show it to them? On a computer or a phone?

I'm so curious O:)

Awesome project, too!

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I played the game with them, when they were very young. They loved every minute of it - with their uncle performing impromptu dramatization-translations :-)

I am seriously considering playing it again with them this summer :-D

Cool, have fun then!

I think I first played them at the age of 7 or 8.

I bet the dramatization-translations must be the trick :) It's like an animated story book.

Monkey Island 1 and 2 is available on steam, even remastered if I remember correctly, to not damage their modern sensitive eyes that is used to high resolution graphics... Another recommended remaster is Full throttle...also available on steam and Xbox.

Big ups to full throttle, cinematic and fun, beautiful art & animation & voice acting, a game for kids that felt like it was made for grown ups - and vice versa.

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