Which is kinda strange because the "pixel" art of those days was never intended to be rendered as blocky pixels, but designed to make use of the CRT's softness.

I bought the special editions of 1 and 2 over the weekend with the sole intent of extracting the original game files and playing them via scummvm. Didn’t even try to play the special editions. And getting them working in scummvm was as much fun as getting to play the original games themselves!

I felt the "updated" graphics were quite good too, although it showed in some places that the budget wasn't as big as for the original game...

Reminded me of the whole 14"/15" options for cant-even-remember which system. Vaguely recall a 17" choice too.

Same. I find the minimal graphics and animation leave more to your imagination.

Similarly, I prefer my non-talkie adventure games. YMMV.

worth mentioning the music is. ot great in the remastered editions

they give you 2 options and neither of them are the incredible adlib version of the original

The Verbs menu taking a third of the screen is the original SCUMM UI. The "verb coin" idea didn't come along until Full Throttle/Curse of Monkey Island years after Secret of Monkey Island and LeChuck's Revenge.

The only tiny "original UI" subtlety in play with Secret of Monkey Island was that the floppy version used a text inventory menu and the CD version added the inventory icons. I can't say I've met anyone that prefers the text inventory over the icons.