Viewing Single Trivia
▲
1
▼
The Japanese FM Towns release of Monkey Island 2 is completely missing the so-called "cliffside puzzle" (which involves stealing a fish from a chef, trading the fish to a fisherman for a rod, and casting your line over a cliff, so a seagull appears and snatches the piece of the treasure map away).
At first, it was speculated this was either a bug (with one person going so far as to officially submit it as a bug for the ScummVM emulator in 2006) or censorship. But looking at the game's source code, the change was seemingly intentional, with additional lines of code being added to tell the program to skip the correct sequence of events.
When asked about this, even former developers and play testers couldn't explain or remember why. Recent consensus is that this was most probably because of a technical issue involving vertical scrolling (where if the screen moved up and down you couldn't have objects or animations on the screen at the same time or the game's script would break - and the cliffside "room" is the only room in the game to feature vertical scrolling).
At first, it was speculated this was either a bug (with one person going so far as to officially submit it as a bug for the ScummVM emulator in 2006) or censorship. But looking at the game's source code, the change was seemingly intentional, with additional lines of code being added to tell the program to skip the correct sequence of events.
When asked about this, even former developers and play testers couldn't explain or remember why. Recent consensus is that this was most probably because of a technical issue involving vertical scrolling (where if the screen moved up and down you couldn't have objects or animations on the screen at the same time or the game's script would break - and the cliffside "room" is the only room in the game to feature vertical scrolling).
Comments (0)
You must be logged in to post comments.
Related Games
Escape from Monkey Island
The Curse of Monkey Island
The Secret of Monkey Island
Tales of Monkey Island
Loom
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
Star Wars: TIE Fighter
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Star Wars: Rebel Assault II - The Hidden Empire
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Star Wars: Battlefront
Thrillville: Off the Rails
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Afterlife
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi
LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Star Wars: Battlefront III
Gladius
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Full Throttle
Fracture
Star Wars: Dark Forces
Disney Infinity 3.0
Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast
Outlaws
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Super Star Wars
Star Wars: Tiny Death Star
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic III
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords
Star Wars: X-Wing
Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III - Rebel Strike
Day of the Tentacle
LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
Star Wars: Outpost
Star Wars: Demolition
Grim Fandango
Star Wars: Obi-Wan
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction