Mr. Eight-Three-One | Moop and Dreadly: The Treasure on Bing-Bong Island Walkthrough @MrEightThreeOne | Uploaded 8 years ago | Updated 21 hours ago
Welp, here we are. A walkthrough of one of the few games made by Hulabee Entertainment, Humongous Entertainment's red-headed stepchild. For those who don't know, this company spawned out of the same co-founders -- Ron Gilbert and Shelley Day -- after an attempt to buy Humongous back from Infogrames fell through the floor. Unfortunately the company didn't last very long, as Shelley Day's arrest put a pretty tragic end to the company while it was stillborn.
So, what is this game, you ask? It's a point-and-click adventure for kids, just as we've been familiar with. The plot is pretty basic -- a kid captain and his anthropromorphic animal-ish friend search for a tresure, but it ends up being a three-way battle between them, the princess, and some nasty pirates.
Unlike the Humongous games though, this isn't a short adventure game that makes its name in replayability; in fact, it's one long adventure game split up into six chapters. It retains a lot of the charm I think the Humongous games had, including lively animation, clever writing (I found myself laughing a lot more than I was expecting), and simplistic puzzles that most kids could easily figure out, though still having the occasional one that stumped me when I was little. And yes, I did play this game when I was little; when it first came out, as a matter of fact. My neighbors had it, but I never personally owned it myself.
As for what I think of the game, it's alright-ish, though something feels a bit missing from it. I think one thing I wasn't fond of is how they made all the chapters self-contained, meaning you're essentially forced to solve six different linear puzzle chains. This made the game feel more or less like six disjointed little ones instead of one long coherent one, and it made the puzzles a little too easy to solve as a result. I get that's what the LucasArts games were like, but their chapters were a whole lot longer so they had an excuse. However, it does have it where it counts -- the game's environment and overall feel is something of a cross between Monkey Island and Pajama Sam. It's got a piratey theme to it with plenty of anachronisms and silly jokes, while having the whole feel of having a kid hero who is overly optimistic about everything. Also, this is one of the only times outside of Spy Fox that we got a proper villian, which is also really cool. Overall, a pretty decent game and it's a shame it never became a series.
Enjoy the walkthrough!
Welp, here we are. A walkthrough of one of the few games made by Hulabee Entertainment, Humongous Entertainment's red-headed stepchild. For those who don't know, this company spawned out of the same co-founders -- Ron Gilbert and Shelley Day -- after an attempt to buy Humongous back from Infogrames fell through the floor. Unfortunately the company didn't last very long, as Shelley Day's arrest put a pretty tragic end to the company while it was stillborn.
So, what is this game, you ask? It's a point-and-click adventure for kids, just as we've been familiar with. The plot is pretty basic -- a kid captain and his anthropromorphic animal-ish friend search for a tresure, but it ends up being a three-way battle between them, the princess, and some nasty pirates.
Unlike the Humongous games though, this isn't a short adventure game that makes its name in replayability; in fact, it's one long adventure game split up into six chapters. It retains a lot of the charm I think the Humongous games had, including lively animation, clever writing (I found myself laughing a lot more than I was expecting), and simplistic puzzles that most kids could easily figure out, though still having the occasional one that stumped me when I was little. And yes, I did play this game when I was little; when it first came out, as a matter of fact. My neighbors had it, but I never personally owned it myself.
As for what I think of the game, it's alright-ish, though something feels a bit missing from it. I think one thing I wasn't fond of is how they made all the chapters self-contained, meaning you're essentially forced to solve six different linear puzzle chains. This made the game feel more or less like six disjointed little ones instead of one long coherent one, and it made the puzzles a little too easy to solve as a result. I get that's what the LucasArts games were like, but their chapters were a whole lot longer so they had an excuse. However, it does have it where it counts -- the game's environment and overall feel is something of a cross between Monkey Island and Pajama Sam. It's got a piratey theme to it with plenty of anachronisms and silly jokes, while having the whole feel of having a kid hero who is overly optimistic about everything. Also, this is one of the only times outside of Spy Fox that we got a proper villian, which is also really cool. Overall, a pretty decent game and it's a shame it never became a series.
Enjoy the walkthrough!
