If you talk to adventure gamers about the Golden Age of their particular genre, they become all dewy-eyed and emotional, remembering back to a time when LucasArts was king and produced spectacularly engrossing animated adventures such as The Dig, Full Throttle and the Monkey Island series.

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Now those same aficionados can prepare themselves for maximum excitement as a reworking of The Secret of Monkey Island is shortly going to be released and a brand new adventure, The Tales of Monkey Island, is currently hitting the shelves.

LucasArts employed Telltale Games to produce The Tales of Monkey Island because the developers have a distinguished record at creating episodic adventures and, as with Sam & Max and Wallace & Gromit's Great Adventures, this story is being released in five downloadable monthly instalments for the all-in price of $34.95. The main difference compared with the other Telltale products, though, is that each download is another chapter in an ongoing story rather than a standalone episode.