History VideoGame / MonkeyShines

''Monkey Shines'' is a 1997 {{Shareware}} platform game created by Fantasoft LLC for UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh, with a Windows version following in 1998.

* {{Oculothorax}}: Some of the mooks in "Spooked" are just eyeballs.

* SelectiveGravity: Bonzo is the only thing that falls. Power-ups, keys, fruits, and mooks can float or even walk in the air.

* AirborneMooks: Common in "Spaced Out", which has many spacecrafts as mooks, but other levels have them too, even if there's not supposed to fly (televisions, skulls, plants, non-avian animals). "In the Drink" mimics this by having mooks swimming above the platforms. Since the water is purely aesthetic, the same effect takes place.

* ArchEnemy: Bees are implied to be Bonzo's arch-enemies. According to the game's "Read Me" file, "Bonzo has a special dislike for bees, and the bees don't like Bonzo much either.". Ironically, they're actually the most inoffensive enemies in the game, since they only drain energy from Bonzo's life bar instead of killing him immediately like most mooks and obstacles do (though they are the only enemies in the game that can bypass Bonzo's shield).
* AquaticMook: Many sea creatures in "In the Drink".

* BigBoosHaunt: World 1, "Spooked".
* BigFancyHouse: World 3, "About the House".

* InvincibleMinorMinion: ALL of the mooks in the game are invincible. You can only jump over/dodge them.

* JungleJapes: World 5, "In the Swing".

* PlotCoupon: The red keys.
* TheScream: Bonzo screams every time he's killed. When he's electrocuted or burned by lava, it's an {{exaggerated}} scream.

* SpaceZone: World 2, "Spaced Out".

* UnderTheSea: World 4, "In the Drink".

As a shareware product, unregistered players could only play the first world in the game, and only for thirty days. game features five original worlds in total:

''Monkey Shines'' is a 1997 {{Shareware}} platform game created by Fantasoft LLC, which features an ape named Bonzo who always seems to get himself into trouble. He finds himself through several different worlds, where [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything tries to kill him]]. The enemies include monsters, animals, plants, aliens and simple household objects, depending on the world you're in. To complete a world, you have to collect all the red keys within it, unlocking the "exit" door which will be opened somewhere in the world. There are also fruits, which give you points, blue keys, which open bonus levels, and other PowerUps.

As a shareware product, unregistered players could only play the first world in the game, called "Spooked", and could also only play for thirty days. The game was initally released for Macintosh users, but a Windows version was released in 1998.

The game features five original worlds:

Not to be confused with the horror movie of the same name.

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* WhenTreesAttack: The mobile trees in "In the Swing" have the same height at Bonzo, but they still want to kill you.

''Monkey Shines'' is a 1997 {{Shareware}} platform game created by Fantasoft LLC, which features an ape named Bonzo who always seems to get himself into trouble. He finds himself through several different worlds, where [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything tries to kill him]]. The enemies include monsters, animals, plants, aliens and simple household objects, depending on the world you're in. To complete a world, you have to collect all the red keys within a world, unlocking the "exit" door which will be opened somewhere in the world. There are also fruits, which give you points, blue keys, which open bonus levels, and other PowerUps.

* AnimalsNotToScale: Almost the mooks in the game have the same size as Bonzo, a monkey. [[BigCreepyCrawlies Bugs]], birds, turtles, snails, fish and [[RodentsOfUnusualSize rats]] all have roughly the same size as him. This also applies for aliens, plants (be them flowers or trees) furniture, and home appliances of all kinds. However, the caterpillar in "In the Swing" is about twice as long as the average enemy.

* ArchEnemy: Bees are implies to be Bonzo's arch-enemies. According to the game's "Read Me" file, "Bonzo has a special dislike for bees, and the bees don't like Bonzo much either.".

The game doesn't seem to run on any of the usual Mac emulators like Basilisk or [=SheepShaver=], but never fear -- a fan of the game [[https://github.com/ErikaRedmark/monkey-shines-java-port recreated it, music and all,]] as a Java app, and it's open source under the GPLv3.

''Monkey Shines'' is a 1997 {{Shareware}} platform game created by Fantasoft LLC, which features an ape named Bonzo who always seems to get himself into trouble. He finds himself through several different worlds, where [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything tries to kill him]]. The enemies includqie monsters, animals, plants, aliens and simple household objects, depending on the world you're in. To complete a world, you have to collect all the red keys within a world, unlocking the "exit" door which will be opened somewhere in the world. There are also fruits, which give you points, and blue keys, which open a bonus level.

The Macintosh version also featured a level editor (only available for registered users), where players could modify the existing worlds or create worlds of their own. While there was no level editor for Windows, many levels created by Mac users were converted for the Windows application, and they were downloadable on the game's [[https://fantasoft.powweb.com/mshq/ now defunct website]], although you can still find some of them on the internet.

* AnimalsNotToScale: Almost the mooks in the game have the same size as Bonzo, a monkey. [[BigCreepyCrawlies Bugs]], birds, turtles, snails, fish and [[RodentsOfUnusualSize rats]] all have roughly the same size as him. This also applies for aliens, plants (be them flowers or trees) furniture, and home appliances of all kinds. However, the caterpillar in "In the Swing" is about three times longer than the average enemy.

* FollowTheMoney: There is a screen in "Spooked" which has an arrow made of grapes, indicating where you're supposed to fall.

* ToyTime: Downplayed. There isn't a full level made of toys, but some screens in "About the House" have a few toy mooks.
* TheUndead: Most of the enemies in ''Spooked''.

* WaterIsAir: Played straight for Bonzo, despite him not being a water creature. There are also bombs underwater. The actual sea animals, however, seem to behave just like regular ones would.

* '''[[BigBoosHaunt Spooked]]''': A haunted house. Enemeis included skulls, zombie apes, jack-o-lanterns, eyeballs and other "spooky" creatures.

* '''About the House''': Takes place inside a house where you have to avoid appliances, furniture, and other household items.

* {{Shareware}}: The trial version is free, but you can only play the first world and you only have a month to test it.

* FallingDamage: Bonzo loses energy if he falls from a great height, unless you picked up a wing.

* HealThyself: The lightning strikes are rare items in the game that replenish a small amount of your energy.

''Monkey Shines'' is a 1997 {{Shareware}} platform game created by Fantasoft LLC, which features an ape named Bonzo who always seems to get himself into trouble. He finds himself through several different worlds, where [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything tries to kill him]]. The enemies include monsters, animals, plants, aliens and simple household objects, depending on the world you're in. To complete a world, you have to collect all the red keys within a world, unlocking the "exit" door which will be opened somewhere in the world. There are also fruits, which give you points, and blue keys, which open a bonus level.

As a shareware product, unregistered players could only play the first world in the game, called "Spooked", and could also only play for thirty days. The game was initally released for Macintosh users, but a Windown version was released in 1998.

* '''Spooked''': A haunted house. Enemeis included skulls, zombie apes, jack-o-lanterns, eyeballs and other "spooky" creatures.
* '''Spaced Out''': A spatial zone with many flying saucers, aliens and robots.
* '''About the House''': Takes place inside a house where you have to avoid several household objects, like televisions, pillows, clocks and knives.
* '''In the Drink''': An underwater level. The enemies are sea creatures.
* '''In the Swing''': You're in a jungle, where the enemies are animals and plants.

The Macintosh version also featured a level editor (only available for registered users), where players could modify the existing worlds or create worlds of their own. While there was no level editor for Windows, many levels created by Mac users were converted for the Windows application, and they were downloadable on the game's now defunct website, although you can still find some of them on the internet.

* '''In the Drink''': An underwater level. The enemies are obviously sea creatures.
* '''In the Swing''': You're in a jungle, where you have to avoid animals (birds, porcupines, scorpions, spiders, etc) and plants (like tulips, cactuses, roses, and trees).

* AirborneMooks: Common in "Spaced Out", which has many spacecrafts as mooks, but other levels have them too, even if there's not supposed to fly (televisions, skulls, plants, non-avian animals). "In the Drink" mimics this by having mooks swimming above the platforms, but since the wates is only aesthetic, the effect is the game.

* ConvectionSchmonvection: Touch lava and you're fried alive. But if you're in platform just above it, or even ''in'' it as long as you have a shields, nothing happens.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: It doesn't matter if you're in a haunted house, in space, in a house, underwater or in a jungle: everything that moves (and some that don't) will try to kill you.

* ExtremeOmnivore: When Bonzo collects a fruit, a "yum" will appear for a second, implying that the fruint was eaten. However, this also appears when you collect keys, shields, wings, and multipliers.

* InvincibilityPowerUp: The shield. It allows give you immunity to all mooks and hazards (bar bees and heights).

* ManEatingPlant: Monkey-Eating, at least. "Spooked" has a walking venus flytrap, "About the House" has chomping flowers inside flowerpots, and "In the Swing" has chomping tulips.

* MooksButNoBosses: There are hundreds of mooks in each worlds, but no bosses.