The mention of Monkey Island will either send warm waves of nostalgia across your face or leave you asking ‘Monkey what?' without any clue as to what we're talking about. It's a classic adventure game from the 90s, from the masters of the point and click genre, LucasArts.

It revolves around the adventures of Guybrush Threepwood as he tries to become a pirate and find the lost treasure of Monkey Island. What ensues is a blend of hilarity, great storytelling and heart-warming characterisation.

This new Special Edition version of the game sees several key improvements to the original that'll make it far more palatable than the original for most modern gamers. Firstly, the graphics have been fully re-drawn.

Where there were once blocky sprites there are now less blocky sprites - although it's a re-working, the Special Edition doesn't stray too far from the original visuals, thankfully. Where there was once a plinkety, blippy MIDI soundtrack there's now a lush re-arranged score and full speech that pump up The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition's download heft to over 300 megabytes. 

The interface has been given an overhaul too. Although it still revolves around dragging a mouse-like cursor around and choosing between nine different interactions for Guybrush, from ‘Talk to' to ‘Push', the actions are now housed in a pop-up menu, leaving more screen real estate for the visuals themselves.

If you're not overly familiar with the ins and outs of 90s adventure gaming, this interface may seem a little fiddly at first, but you'll soon get used to it and there's no real need to rush in Monkey Island at any rate.

Indeed, to rush through a game like The Secret of Monkey Island would be a bit of a shame as the care and, dare we say, love that was involved in its creation shines through to this day. The dialogue is still great, the story charming and the characters engaging in a way that's rare in video games these days. We're not going to give any more of the story away here, because it's a big part of the game's attraction and, let's face it, many of you probably know it by heart anyway.

Even if you are a gamer who played it first time around and can recite half of the lines off the top of your head, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is still worth a download. The new vocals, performed largely by the cast used in the later Monkey Island games, music and visuals help to bring the game to the present in a way that doesn't undermine the original, which you can step back to with a double-fingered swipe on the screen anyway.

A retro gamer's dream, we only hope some more LucasArts adventures will make it onto the App Store.