Friday, 1 August 2025

Game 160: The Secret of Donkey Island (Tajemství Oslího ostrova) - Introduction (1994)

Written by Michael



Before I finalize the scoring for Gabriel Knight, I’ll take a slight detour to a more light-hearted title.  Don’t fret -- I’ll post the scoring next. For now, we’ll go for a historic title.

Historic?  Before 1992, there hadn’t really been any real games developed and released from a Czech-based producer.  A pair of teens, Jarek Kolář and Petr Vlček, using a computer at a grammar school in Brnol, developed the game we are about to play as a way to prove that Czech citizens really could produce a game up to the standards of the overseas developers.  It was the first point-and-click developed in the country, and one of the first (eventually) made commercially available.