For the relatively few IBM PC owners at the time who were fortunate enough to possess hard drives, this presented a one-off challenge. However for the surprisingly large number of Amiga owners who didn't list their official occupation as "octopus", Monkey Island 2 featured one of the craziest disk-swapping marathons available at the time. Sure, you could have bought it on CD, but who had a CD drive back then? They may as well have shipped it by semaphore.

Roll forward to 2010 and even the Special Edition is 1.8GB as a Steam download. To put that into perspective, it's a bit like owning a copy of the original Terminator on VHS, then discovering the newly remastered extended version comes with an entire movie theatre to watch it in.

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