Finally managed to finish The Secret of Monkey Island. I had it in 1994 or 95 on CDROM. Back then I couldn't leave Mêlée Island™. Even after 30 years, it is still so hard I had to use a walkthrough at several points.
Thank you @grumpygamer and all the team who worked on it.
Uncharted 4 on PC has photo mode, so obviously I had to capture the moment when I came across Monkey Island references, right? Nathan next to painting and statue of notorious pirate Guybrush Threepwood. #gaming #uncharted #monkeyisland
31. At the end of the game, Guybrush wonders if Stan and either his crew or Herman are ok. In other versions you are shown what happened to them, but not in the Sega version.
My best guess is that the slow load times would have killed the pacing.
30. Another case where the conversation options differ between the Sega CD and other versions. But this one is not a simple case of misplaced or cut texts. It's far more insidious.
It turns out there's a bug in how the game handles conversations, causing it to set the wrong bit flags. I should have noticed earlier, when Guybrush never (?) says "Geeze, what an obvious sales pitch" to Cobb.
I don't think ScummVM can fix this.
When I was a little kid - around 4 years old - who couldn't read or speak English (my mother tongue is German), I saw my dad playing Monkey Island for the first time on his old Amiga 500.
I thought Monkey Island was the name of the protagonist. 
Ich steh auf solche feinen Details! Hatte darüber erst kürzlich gelesen und wollte mir das jetzt mal selbst in der deutschen Ausgabe ansehen:
Für die EGA Version von Monkey Island hatten sie ja nur 16 Farben zur Verfügung und mussten da dann wohl etwas mit der Farbpalette jonglieren. In der Szene mit der großen, animierten Leuchtreklame wechselt die Aktivierungsfarbe daher im Inventar plötzlich von Hell-Lila auf Rot. Das war mir bisher nie aufgefallen! 
29. As @atmcashpoint already pointed out, Guybrush no longer says "hell" in the Sega CD version. I guess it's only ok when LeChuck says it.
28. When enter the monkey head, the verb and inventory in the floppy version changes from green to red. Whether deliberate or not, this effect was lost in the CD versions.
27. Another thing the Sega CD inherits from the DOS CD version is the shortened version of the scene where you bribe the cannibals. I have no idea if these lines were cut deliberately or by accident. I think the longer version is funnier.
The CD version does print the "Oooh, that's nice." line, but it gets immediately overwritten by the next one.
(People who have seen the source code say there was an even longer version, but it was commented out.)
26. Some of the other signs in the game were made easier to read in the Sega CD version. Not this one, near the Monkey Head, though.
25. While you can still fall off the cliff, and bounce right back off the rubber trees below, in the Sega CD version there is no Sierra style "game over" message.
I never owned a Sega CD, and I don't know what games were released for it. But I'm just going to assume from now on that it was the one gaming console in existence where nothing got killed in any game. Ever.
@et_andersson There's at least one case of straight-up censorship in the Sega CD version later on:
When Guybrush looks at the mushrooms inside the underground lava caverns, he says "I had a feeling there would be mushrooms in here." rather than "...in Hell there would be mushrooms."
@et_andersson In the EGA version, this scene uses color cycling to animate the sign, and steals the color slot normally used for light purple to make it work.
So on this particular screen, inventory items in the text GUI are highlighted in light red rather than purple when you hover the cursor over them.
While on the subject of Monkey Island trivia, here's an old one: The Mêlée Island clock tower behaves different in the CD version. There, the clock description changes every time you examine it. In the floppy version, it changes only if you leave the room after examining it, and then come back to look at it again.
And it's probably down to a single line of code added for the CD version. (See alt text for further analysis.) Intentional? A bug fix gone awry?
cc: @mixnmojo
Mit Juno im Bett Monkey Island spielen ist inzwischen schon zur Routine geworden 
#whitecat #sweetjuno #monkeyisland #monkeyisland2 #CatsOfMastodon
24. There's that white strand in the smoke from the pot again. Well, that's hardly surprising since it appears to be the same animation as used for the voodoo lady's cauldron. (Also for Smirk's cigar smoke, but there it changes the palette to get a different color.)
23. Another example of the Sega CD version using its own font. In both cases, it looks like the same font as used for conversations.
