The Secret of Monkey Island, CD version. The original had textual verb buttons and inventory.

Monkey Island is the collective name given to a series of graphical point-and-click adventure games published by LucasArts (formerly LucasFilm Games). The games follow the misadventures of the hapless Guybrush Threepwood as he struggles to become the most notorious pirate in the Caribbean, defeat the plans of the evil undead pirate LeChuck and win the heart of governor Elaine Marley. Each game's plot usually involves the mysterious Monkey Island and its impenetrable secrets. A screenshot from the CD-ROM release of The Secret of Monkey Island This is a screenshot of a copyrighted computer game or video game. ... A screenshot from the CD-ROM release of The Secret of Monkey Island This is a screenshot of a copyrighted computer game or video game. ... In a general sense, a series is a related set of things that occur one after the other or are otherwise connected one after the other. ... Point and click describes the simple action of a computer user moving a cursor to a certain location on a screen (point) and then clicking a mouse button, usually the left one (click), or other pointing device. ... An adventure game is a type of computer game usually dominated by exploration, puzzle-solving, and interaction with game characters, with the focus on enjoying a narrative rather than testing reflexes. ... Official LucasArts logo LucasArts Entertainment Company (sometimes shortened to LEC), is a video game developer and publisher. ... Official LucasArts logo LucasArts Entertainment Company (sometimes shortened to LEC), is a video game developer and publisher. ... Close up portrait from The Secret of Monkey Island, CD version. ... A pirate is one who robs or plunders at sea without a commission from a recognised sovereign nation. ... The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. ... Undead is a collective name for all types of corporeal and non-corporeal entities who were once alive in the normal sense, died, and then continued to exist in the world of the living, usually as a ghost or animated corpse. ... LeChuck in Curse of Monkey Island, in his zombie-pirate form The pirate LeChuck is the main villain appearing in the Monkey Island series of adventure games produced by LucasArts. ... Elaine Marley in Curse of Monkey Island Elaine Marley is one of the primary characters in the Monkey Island series of adventure games developed by LucasArts. ... Monkey Island as it appeared in the original game. ...

Overview

The Monkey Island series is known for its humor and "player-friendly" qualities. The player cannot permanently place the game in an unwinnable state or cause Guybrush to die ¹ (these traits are shared by other humor-oriented LucasArts adventure games such as Sam and Max Hit the Road and Day of the Tentacle, but not by "serious" games such as the Indiana Jones adventures). This approach was somewhat revolutionary at the time of the first game's release; prominent adventure-game rivals were Sierra On-Line and Infocom, both of whose games were infamous for sudden and frequent character deaths or "lock-out" situations. Unwinnable is a state in many text adventures where it is impossible for the player to reach the end goal, and where the only other options are restarting the game, wandering indefinitely, or meeting death. ... Sam and Max Hit the Road screenshot Sam and Max Hit the Road is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1993, published by LucasArts. ... Maniac Mansion 2: Day of the Tentacle (DoTT) is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1993, and published by LucasArts. ... Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones Indiana Jones is a fictional bullwhip-toting archaeologist with an overdeveloped fear of snakes, played by Harrison Ford in a series of films by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg; a younger version of the character was also played by River Phoenix in the third film... Sierra Entertainment was a computer game developer and publisher active from 1980 to 2004. ... Infocom was an American software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...

Each of the games takes place on fictional islands in the Caribbean. The time period in which they take place is deliberately vague: although the islands teem with pirates (dressed in outfits that seem to come from movies and comic books rather than history), there are many deliberate anachronisms and references to modern-day popular culture. The games' soundtracks are filled with faux-reggae music; Elaine Marley's name is also an obvious reference to Bob Marley. The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... An anachronism (from Greek ana, back, and chronos, time) is something that is out of its natural time or that appears to be so. ... Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society. ... Outrun (1986) is an arcade game with a famous soundtrack. ... Reggae is a style of music developed in Jamaica and is closely linked to the Rastafari movement, though not universally popular among Rastafarians. ... Bob Marley Robert Nesta Marley (February 6, 1945 Nine Miles, Saint Ann, Jamaica – May 11, 1981 Miami, Florida) better known as Bob Marley, was a Jamaican singer, guitarist, and songwriter. ...

The games

The Secret of Monkey Island

The first installment in the series, The Secret of Monkey Island (SMI), was the fifth game to use the SCUMM engine. At first, the game follows Guybrush's attempts to prove himself a pirate; later, he attempts to rescue his new-found love, Elaine Marley, from the clutches of the ghost pirate LeChuck. SCUMM stands for Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion and is a scripting language developed at LucasArts (known at the time as Lucasfilm Games) to ease development of the graphical adventure game Maniac Mansion. ...

The game was originally released on floppy disk in 1990 for Atari ST, Macintosh and IBM PC systems (using EGA graphics); it was also the first adventure game to use character scaling. Several months later, the PC version was re-released with VGA graphics; the Amiga version, released shortly after this, used the PC EGA version's 16-color character graphics along with the PC VGA version's room backgrounds (reduced to 16 unique colors per room). In June 1992, a CD-ROM version of the game was released (including a Sega CD version), featuring vastly improved music as well as graphical verb and inventory icons (as seen in Monkey Island 2). In the Fall of 1992, the CD-ROM version was ported to the FM Towns. The project leader was Ron Gilbert, and the game was designed by Gilbert, Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman. Another notable contributor was author Orson Scott Card, who wrote the insults for the "Insult Swordfighting" section. 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Atari 520 ST The Atari ST was a home/personal computer system released by Atari in 1985. ... Mac OS X v10. ... IBM PC (IBM 5150) with keyboard and green screen monochrome monitor (IBM 5151), running MS-DOS 5. ... The Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) is the IBM PC computer display standard specification located between CGA and VGA in terms of graphics performance (that is, colour and space resolution). ... ... Video Graphics Array (VGA) is a computer display standard first marketed in 1987 by IBM. VGA belongs to a family of earlier IBM video standards and largely remains backward compatible with them. ... In computing, Amiga is a range of home/personal computers primarily using the Motorola 68000 processor family, whose development started in 1982, initially as a game machine. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ... The Sega Mega (Japanese: メガCD) is an add-on device for the Sega Mega Drive released in Europe, Australia and Japan. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ... The FM TOWNS (also spelled FM-TOWNS, FM Towns and FM-Towns) system is a Japanese PC variant, built by Fujitsu from February 1989 to Summer 1997. ... Ron Gilbert is a computer game designer and programmer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure games, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games. ... Tim Schafer is most noted for his career as a computer game programmer. ... Dave Grossman is a noted game programmer and game designer. ... Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is a prolific and best-selling author of numerous genres. ... An insult is a statement or action which affronts or demeans someone. ... Swordsmanship refers to the skills of a swordsman, a person versed in fencing with a sword. ...

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

The second game, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (MI2), was the sixth to use the SCUMM engine. It involves Guybrush's dual attempts to find the mystical treasure of Big Whoop and win back Elaine's love. MI2 is considered by many fans and critics to be among the best of LucasArts' adventure games. Despite its popularity, its ambiguous and surrealistic ending drew much criticism.

The game was released on floppy disks for the PC (with VGA graphics), Macintosh and Amiga (with standard 32-color graphics) in 1991, and was later included on a CD-ROM compilation of Monkey Island games. In 1994, the game was released on the FM Towns, the last title LucasArts ever published on that system. The project leader and designer was Ron Gilbert. 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The FM TOWNS (also spelled FM-TOWNS, FM Towns and FM-Towns) system is a Japanese PC variant, built by Fujitsu from February 1989 to Summer 1997. ...

The Curse of Monkey Island

Classics release

The third game in the series, The Curse of Monkey Island (CMI), was the twelfth and last to use the SCUMM engine, which was extensively upgraded for its last outing. Guybrush manages to turn Elaine into a gold statue with a cursed diamond ring, and must retrieve the statue (which was stolen almost immediately) and turn her back. Curse of Monkey Island Classics cover, scanned by wS for wikipedia This work is copyrighted. ... Curse of Monkey Island Classics cover, scanned by wS for wikipedia This work is copyrighted. ... General Name, Symbol, Number Gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11 (IB), 6, d Density, Hardness 19300 kg/m3, 2. ... Wiktionary has a definition of: Curse A curse is a prayer asking that a god or similar spirit bring misfortune to someone; an imprecation or execration, the opposite of a blessing or charm. ... The mineral diamond is a crystalline form, or allotrope, of carbon (other allotropes of carbon include graphite and fullerene). ...

While the earlier Monkey Island games received nearly uniform praise, CMI provoked very mixed reactions. Ron Gilbert parted ways with the series after MI2, and some fans consider the resulting third installment to be inferior in storyline and design. While some complained that the game's upgraded, cartoony SVGA graphics were awkward and revealed the limits of the SCUMM engine, others felt they were a considerable improvement on earlier LucasArts adventures. Similarly, some fans found the voicework (CMI was the first game in the series to feature voices for its characters) did not match their expectations; others felt it added to the game's atmosphere. A cartoon is any of several forms of art, with varied meanings that evolved from one to another. ... Super Video Graphics Array, almost always abbreviated to Super VGA or just SVGA is a broad term that covers a wide range of computer display standards. ...

The game was released on CD-ROM in 1997. It was later included on a CD-ROM compilation of Monkey Island games. The project leaders and designers were Jonathan Ackley and Larry Ahern. Voice actor Dominic Armato provided the voice of Guybrush Threepwood. 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dominic Armato (born November 18, 1976) is a voice actor who works mainly on LucasArts games. ...

It is a little-known fact that CMI was originally meant to be a movie. This was only brought to light when a concept artist for the project sent his work to The Scumm Bar (http://www.scummbar.com/), a Monkey Island fansite. Had the movie not been cancelled in the very early stages of development, it apparently would have been very similar to the game. A fansite or fan site is a website created and maintained by the fans or devotees of a particular cultural phenomenon. ...

Awards

• Adventure Game of the Year, Computer Gaming World and PC Gamer magazines
• Special Achievement in Art Direction, Computer Gaming World magazine

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Escape from Monkey Island

The fourth game, Escape from Monkey Island (EMI), begins with Guybrush and Elaine returning from their honeymoon to find that Elaine has been declared officially dead. Her position as governor has been revoked and her mansion is scheduled to be demolished.

EMI used a slightly improved version of the GrimE engine introduced by Grim Fandango. There is an in-game joke about the replacement of SCUMM by the Lua scripting language: Guybrush returns from a journey to find the famous "Scumm Bar" replaced by a tourist-oriented "Lua Bar". The iMUSE music system continued to be used, albeit with MP3 compression. Look up Grime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Grime is musical offshoot of the early 21st century UK Garage scene that developed in Londons East End between 2002-2004. ... Grim Fandango is a graphical adventure computer game released by LucasArts in 1998. ... SCUMM stands for Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion and is a scripting language developed at LucasArts (known at the time as Lucasfilm Games) to ease development of the graphical adventure game Maniac Mansion. ... The Lua (pronouced LOO-ah, or in IPA) programming language is a lightweight imperative and procedural language, designed as a scripting language with extensible semantics as a primary goal. ... A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ... iMUSE (stands for Interactive MUsic Streaming Engine) is a game engine specifically designed to synchronize music with visual action in a videogame. ... MP3 is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format. ...

Some fans refused to purchase EMI due to their belief that the new, keyboard-controlled 3D GrimE engine would serve as a poor substitute for the cherished, mouse-driven SCUMM engine of former Monkey Island games. Many fans who did play the game reported disappointment in the many inconsistencies introduced in the series' continuity; the revised version of Herman Toothrot's past is one prominent example. QWERTY computer keyboard A computer keyboard is a peripheral modelled after the typewriter keyboard. ... The rewrite of this article is being devised at Talk:3D computer graphics/Temp. ... Operating a mechanical 1: Pulling the mouse turns the ball. ... In fiction, continuity is consistency of the characteristics of persons, objects, places and events seen by the reader or viewer. ... Herman Toothrot is a fictional character of the Monkey Island series developed by LucasArts. ...

EMI's introductory music is identical to that of the third game, unlike the earlier sequels which featured newly-composed remixes of the well-known Monkey Island theme.

The game was released on CD-ROM in 2000 and on PlayStation 2 in 2001. Apart from obvious control differences, the PS2 version only varies by a slightly higher polygon count and use of less pre-rendered material. The project leaders and designers were Sean Clark and Michael Stemmle. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The PlayStation 2 (PS2) (Japanese: プレイステーション2) is Sonys second video game console, after the PlayStation. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not give much verifiable information about the subject explaining why the subject is significant or notable. ...

Common features

The games in the series share several minigames, puzzles, in-jokes and references. In each game there is a minigame based on learning and repetition of a sequence in order to become more proficient: insult sword-fighting in the first game, a number-based "password" in the second, rhyming insult sword-fighting in the third, and insult arm wrestling and "Monkey Kombat" in the fourth. The first and fourth games also both feature a puzzle which involves following another character through several locations, a trick also used in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Some other minigames include a spitting competition, naval cannon battles and platform diving. In Fantastic Dizzy, the player has to complete a sliding puzzle to get an extra life. ... An in joke is a joke whose humour is clear only to those people who are in a group that has some prior knowledge (not known by the whole population) that makes the joke humorous. ... Arm wrestling is an athletic contest in which two people place either their right elbows or their left elbows on a table, grip their hands, and try to force back the other persons hand to the table surface. ... Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (also erroneously called Indiana Jones 4) is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1992, published by LucasArts. ... Spitting is the act of forcibly ejecting saliva or other substances from the mouth. ...

Running gags include lines such as "Look behind you, a three-headed monkey!", the introduction "I'm Guybrush Threepwood, a mighty <profession>", and "Hi, I'm selling these fine leather jackets" (a reference to the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade adventure game). The running gag is a popular hallmark of comedy television shows and movies. ... Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1989, published by Lucasfilm Games (now LucasArts). ...

Note that none of the games actually reveal the "Secret of Monkey Island". LeChuck himself, when asked in the second and third games, refuses to answer the question; Guybrush can eventually prod LeChuck to confess that he doesn't know what the secret is. There are many theories popular among players, and at least one case can be made from each game in the series.

A fairly credible theory is that the bizarre revelation at the end of MI2 is the true secret of Monkey Island. The fact that it was debunked in CMI is merely a retcon by the new development team after the departure of Ron Gilbert. But flashes of supernatural power from little Chucky's eyes, and the 'meanwhile' of Elaine still waiting for Guybrush in the final scene of MI2 seem to indicate that this theory may not be entirely accurate. Retroactive continuity – commonly contracted to the portmanteau word retcon – refers to new information later added to historical material or deliberately changing previously established facts in a work of serial fiction. ...

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Many "supporting" characters have recurring roles in the games, including:

• Stan, a disreputable salesman
• The Voodoo Lady, who advises Guybrush in supernatural matters
• Herman Toothrot, an old hermit who has a surprising secret
• Wally B. Feed, a myopic, height-challenged cartographer
• Carla, the swordmistress of Mêlée Island
• Otis, the flower-fancying pirate and friend of Carla, who invariably gets locked up.
• Murray, a talking skull with delusions of grandeur
• a tribe of former cannibals who have converted to vegetarianism

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Interesting facts

The Monkey Island series is full of spoofs, in-jokes, humorous references, and easter eggs: so many, in fact, that entire web sites are dedicated to them. Some of the most notable ones are: An in joke is a joke whose humour is clear only to those people who are in a group that has some prior knowledge (not known by the whole population) that makes the joke humorous. ... From the custom of the Easter egg hunt observed in western nations and many parts of Europe, Easter eggs are hidden messages or features which may appear in movies and books, on CDs and DVDs, or in computer programs. ...

• The name "Guybrush" stems from the fact that the character's graphics, made using Deluxe Paint, were saved using the filename guy.brush.
• In the last two games, Guybrush has a deathly fear of porcelain. This may be a reference to a fight in the first game in which he gets hit in the head with a vase.
• The name "Threepwood" comes from the works of P. G. Wodehouse, whose characters included Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth and Galahad Threepwood.
• The bar in The Secret of Monkey Island (the SCUMM Bar) contains a character from LOOM, wearing a pirate hat and a button reading "Ask me about LOOM". (If asked, he indeed describes the game with much enthusiasm.) The game also includes a seagull from LOOM. MI2 and Day of the Tentacle contain the same seagull; both are mentioned in the credits. A scene in CMI features a skeleton strongly resembling Manny Calavera from Grim Fandango; he sports a button that says "Ask me about Grim Fandango".
• In SMI, Guybrush can accidentally fall off a path atop a tall mountain. A dialog box appears offering the choices "Reload, Restart, or Quit" (appearing suspiciously similar to those in Sierra's adventure games of the time); seconds later, however, Guybrush bounces back into view and lands safely on the path. He offers the concise explanation: "Rubber tree". The game continues as normal. In EMI Guybrush can approach a cliff side by the Governor's Mansion and will have the option of jumping of the cliff; he will walk to the edge shout: "Goodbye cruel computer game!", then step back and say: "Nah, maybe later".
• Pressing the key combination Alt + W in MI2 "wins" the game instantly. This feature possibly gets MI2 the award for the fastest completion available in a videogame. (Note that this "winning" is intentionally jokey, and is not the same as completing the game; the Alt+W keypress simply displays the text "You Win!" and ends the game. If the player completes the game the 'normal' way, this text is never displayed.)
• An easter egg allows Guybrush to die in course of the "Three Trials" chapter of the first game. Guybrush claims to be able to hold his breath for ten minutes. At a certain point in the game, he becomes trapped underwater. If the player waits for ten minutes, Guybrush suffocates, and the game is over. It is one, if not the only, way to die.
• In another faux-death easter egg, Guybrush can supposedly die in MI2 by being lowered into a pit of acid. This results in a logical impossibility since (at the time) he is relating the story to Elaine, obviously very alive. Elaine points out this paradox and Guybrush backtracks, bringing the player back to the beginning of the acid pit scene.
• Each game in the series features oblique cameo appearances by Steve Purcell's characters Sam and Max (who were featured in their own LucasArts adventure game, Sam and Max Hit the Road). The pair appear as voodoo idols in the first game, as costumes in a costume shop on Booty Island in the second, and as toys in LeChuck's demonic carnival in the third.
• One infamous joke in SMI, which many players assumed was a technical error, involved a stump in a forest. When examining the stump, Guybrush proclaims that a hole in it leads to a maze of caverns. If Guybrush tries to climb down into the stump, the game prompts the player to successively insert "disk #23", "disk #47" and "disk #98". (The game was actually distributed on 4 floppy disks.) The endgame credits also have an entry for "art and animation for disk #23". Many people didn't get the joke, and LucasArts tech support received quite a large number of calls for help with the missing disk. The joke was removed from the CD version of the game. The joke was mentioned in MI2: Guybrush can call the LucasArts hint line from a phone and ask, "Who thought up that dumb stump joke?" In CMI, Guybrush briefly sticks his head into an opening, which leads to the very same tree stump rendered in EGA-style graphics.
• Only SMI, MI2, and EMI were released for the Apple Macintosh (all four games are available for Microsoft Windows). This leaves a gap in the series for Mac users (the freeware ScummVM interpreter supports CMI on the Macintosh, although the required data files for the game are not freely distributable).

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See also

• LucasArts Adventure Games
• SCUMM
• ScummVM
• GrimE
• Ron Gilbert

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Notes

Note 1: In The Secret of Monkey Island, Guybrush could actually die in one extreme circumstance. This required a near-complete lack of action on the player's part, however; the situation was eminently escapable.

External links

• The Curse of Monkey Island (http://www.lucasarts.com/products/monkey/default.htm) - Official site at LucasArts
• Escape from Monkey Island (http://www.lucasarts.com/products/monkey4/index_net.html) - Official site at LucasArts
• ScummVM (http://www.scummvm.org/) - A multi-platform open-source SCUMM interpreter allowing the first three MI games to be played on all modern platforms
• The Monkey Island SCUMM Bar (http://www.scummbar.com/) - A popular fan-site
• Monkey Island MIDI music collection (http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/5729/Music.html)
• The World of Monkey Island (http://www.worldofmi.com/) - Another very popular fan-site
• Quick and Easy (http://quick.mixnmojo.com/) or how to run LucasArts adventure games in windows XP, 2000 and NT with no problem at all