CMI DS Rumours

Update: Just a hoax, move on.

Someone called 'Flamming' on the Gamespot forums has raised hopes of Nintendo DS ports of the first three Monkey Island games. Citing Nintendo Gamecube Magazine UK as his source, he also provides 'screenshots' of an experimental port of CMI.

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Though we'd very much like this rumour to be true, the reality is that this is almost certainly a hoax. Eagle-eyed readers will already have noticed that the inventory chest in this screenshot differs from that in the pc version. This could very easily have been edited and doesnt offer much in the way of proof.

Tom Sarris is quoted as the Lucasarts spokesman, however as any LEC-watcher knows, Sarris left the company some time ago, before the Nintendo DS was even announced. Moreover, the quotes attributed to Sarris use terrible grammar - there's no way that language like that woud end up in a magazine.

Finally and most dammingly, when journalists from Computer and Video Games talked to the NGC editor Tom East, and asked him if he was planning to run an article about Monkey Island DS he replied "Not that I'm aware of".

In summation, its all a dirty hoax. Probably.

Comment from tapio

who gives a rats ass bout that.. mesa want mi5..

Posted Feb 15, 2005

Comment from supermax6660606

well it's obviously a fake... but we can still get mi1 and mi2 on the gp32.. I'd like to get one but it's quite expensive and we have to order it on the net...

Posted Feb 15, 2005

Comment from Hellomoto

First off, those images aren't scanned. You can tell theyre just straight screen shots. So the images aren't from a magasine.

Secondly, they aren't from an official site. Why not if they're real and 'a friend' has just linked you to(The guy who posted it on Game Spot said so).

Its obviously fake. And not a very good fake.

Posted Feb 15, 2005

Comment from MrManager

The fact that he constantly spelled it "Lucas Arts" even in the gamestore and the e-mail from LucasArts doesn't strengthen his case.

Posted Feb 15, 2005

Comment from Mr Flibble

Why would Nintendo even port Monkey Island to the DS? It just seems... stupid.
Apart from the fact the DS was meant for innovative games that used it's two screens, not PC ports, WHY would Nintendo (going out of business) support an almost ten year old game?

Posted Feb 15, 2005

Comment from Le Chimp

Quote: Nintendo (going out of business)

:| That is so not true. Nintendo is far from going out of business... Don't even get me started.

Anyhoo, I would love for that too happen... But those screenshots are most likely fake.

Posted Feb 15, 2005

Comment from Hellomoto

Someone will port SCUMMVM eventually anyways. Heh.

Posted Feb 16, 2005