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I was thinking maybe I should finish monkey island 2 before buying this one. I got it on my iPhone a long time ago.

Well, tough luck. Disney bought Lucas Art and removed it from the App Store - no redownloads for anyone!

https://www.pocketgamer.com/secret-of-monkey-island-special-...

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It's probably easiest to just say "yo ho" and find a pirate copy to use with ScummVM at this point, I did that with MI1/2 around the time the rereleases came out and it was super easy to find a good copy of both.

GoG, and I think Steam, have official releases that have updated graphics with a toggle built-in to switch between old graphics and new anytime you want.

Monkey Island 1 & 2 on iOS broke several iOS releases ago anyway and never were patched again unfortunately.

Such a drag that Apple doesn't care at all about app compatibility and happily breaks iOS games every year, offloading a maintenance burden on developers, who have to keep updating their games/apps for every new iOS release just to keep them working at all.

The 32-bit apocalypse didn't help and I think it might have been what specifically killed the Monkey Island games on iOS.

Then Apple went to macOS and broke the 32-bit game libraries on Steam and the Mac App store...

MacOS would need a Tb of disk space to store all the emulators and libraries if every CPU architecture would have to be supported indefinitely. And Macs would be more expensive than they already are.

It's on Steam and better enjoyed on a normal sized screen. It's hand-painted and digitized art painted in the early 90s.

The remakes were fantasic on iPad.

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