1988 was a very cool year, with stylish music and fashion, and cool computers like the Amiga that could commandeer all the powers of multimedia. Scumm games were the state of the art back then and felt like real interactive cartoons, unlike any game of the time, and the novelty effect would help you cope with the tiring Lucasart "humour" and the nonsensical puzzles of which even the game's coverart makes fun of.
In order to really demonstrate the engine capabilities, the game uses a lot of different locations, way too many.
What really makes this a thumb down is the fact that it's very easy to get softlocked and unable to progress for one reason or another, and only realize you're stuck hours after you've made the mistake. So you're limited to either strictly follow a walkthrough, or waste an unreasonable amount of time trying to solve this unfunny game.
The story is not even interesting enough to watch a longplay on youtube.