Mêlée Island in The Secret of Monkey Island. Hook Island is near the top-right corner.

Mêlée Island is a fictional Caribbean island in the Monkey Island series of adventure games from LucasArts. It is the capital island of the Tri-Island Area and the home of governor Elaine Marley. Mêlée, which appears only in the first and fourth games of the series (The Secret of Monkey Island and Escape from Monkey Island), with a brief cameo appearance in the second (Monkey Island II: LeChuck's Revenge), is largely covered by a thick forest of pine trees despite the games' Caribbean setting. Mêlée Island as seen in THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND. Hook Island is the small islet in the upper-right. ... Mêlée Island as seen in THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND. Hook Island is the small islet in the upper-right. ... This article describes the series of adventure games. ... The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. ... The Secret of Monkey Island, CD version. ... This is an article about a game company. ... Official LucasArts logo LucasArts Entertainment Company (sometimes shortened to LEC), is a video game developer and publisher. ... Many islands, large and small, are scattered throughout the Tri-Island Area. ... A governor is also a device that regulates the speed of a machine. ... 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. ... Species About 115. ...

The Secret of Monkey Island

In the series' first game, Mêlée Island is sparsely populated. Apart from one small town, appropriately called Mêlée Town, the island features a used ship lot run by Stan, a small traveling circus, a swordfighting school run by Captain Smirk, and the hidden home of the Sword Master. Just off the northeastern shore of Mêlée is tiny Hook Island. A pirate named Meathook lives here, attempting to express his artistic side. Stan is a recurring character in the Monkey Island series of computer adventure games from LucasArts. ... The term circus originates from Latin and can mean several things: A public equipped space for shows and other spectacles of the Classical period (e. ...

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Escape from Monkey Island

By the fourth game, both the town and the island have changed considerably. The governor's mansion has somehow moved further away from Mêlée Town, and the former site of Stan's Used Ship Lot is now the official island harbor where ships are issued for official use. Meathook has finally built a bridge leading to Hook Island. Many of the familiar stores in town have been closed; even the SCUMM bar is replaced by a touristy, trendy place called the Lua Bar. (This is an in-joke: EMI marked the first game that used the Lua programming language rather than LucasArts' venerable SCUMM engine.) 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. ... 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. ... 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. ...

Trivia

• Mêlée Island, or rather the alley behind the church appears briefly in MI2.
• A portion of The Curse of Monkey Island also allows Guybrush Threepwood to briefly "revisit" Mêlée Island. Guybrush's head emerges from a stump in a forest; this stump was the basis of an infamous joke in The Secret of Monkey Island.
• In SMI, the town clock is stuck at 10 PM. In EMI, however, the clock seems to be stuck at 3 AM.
• Guybrush remarks that Mêlée is home to the original "International House of Mojo" shop run by the helpful Voodoo Lady. Actually, in SMI her business was called "Ye Olde Rubber-Chicken-with-a-pulley-in-the-middle Shoppe". The International House of Mojo didn't appear until Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, where it was located in a swamp on Scabb Island.