It was written by Peter Harrap and Shaun Hollingworth with music by Rob Hubbard and Ben Daglish.

The player controls Monty as he travels around Europe collecting money in order to buy a Greek island - Montos, where he can safely retire.

Auf Wiedersehen Monty contains many features and peculiarities for the player to discover.

Examples include being suddenly attacked by a bull's head in Spain after collecting a red cape (presumably a reference to bullfighting), a car being dropped in one of two places on entering a screen representing Düsseldorf in West Germany, a chef's hat found in Sweden (a reference to the Swedish Chef of Muppets fame; also, the two rooms representing Sweden are subtitled Bjorn and Borg), and a record in Luxembourg that when collected makes Monty breakdance to the game's title music (this may be a reference to Radio Luxembourg).

Bottles of wine or a glass of beer in West Germany cause Monty to briefly become drunk and his control to become slightly erratic leading to a reversal of controls, repeated jumping or Monty climbing any ladders or drainpipes he encounters.