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 four graphical point-and-click adventure games produced and published by LucasArts, originally known as LucasFilm Games through the development of the first two games in the series. 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. ... This is a list of video game franchises organised alphabetically by name. ... 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. ... This is an article about the video game genre. ... LucasArts is an American video game developer and publisher. ... Close up portrait of Guybrush from The Secret of Monkey Island. ... This article is about nautical piracy. ... West Indian redirects here. ... Undead is the collective name for all types of supernatural entities that are deceased yet behave as if alive. ... LeChuck, scourge of the Caribbean and all pirates The pirate LeChuck is the main villain appearing in the Monkey Island series of computer 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. ...

Ron Gilbert, the creator of the series, only worked on the first two games before leaving LucasArts. The rights to Monkey Island remained with LucasArts, and the third and fourth games were created without Gilbert's input. Ron Gilbert is an American computer game designer, programmer, and producer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure games, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games. ...

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 without great effort on the game player's part. This "player friendly" approach was unusual at the time of the first game's release in 1990; prominent adventure-game rivals were Sierra On-Line and Infocom, both of whom were known for games with sudden and frequent character deaths or "lock-outs". LucasArts itself used such closed plot paths for its drama games like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure (1989) but preferred the open format for other humor-oriented adventure games such as Sam & Max Hit the Road (1993) and Day of the Tentacle (1993). Zork made unwinnable in 6 turns. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Zork universe Zork games Zork Anthology Zork trilogy Zork I   Zork II   Zork III Beyond Zork   Zork Zero Enchanter trilogy Enchanter   Sorcerer   Spellbreaker Other games Wishbringer   Return to Zork Zork: Nemesis   Zork Grand Inquisitor Zork: The Undiscovered Underground Topics in Zork Encyclopedia Frobozzica Characters   Kings   Creatures Timeline   Magic   Calendar Zorkmid... Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1989, published by Lucasfilm Games (now LucasArts). ... Sam & Max Hit the Road is a graphical adventure game, originally developed and released by LucasArts in 1993 for DOS and Macintosh computers. ... Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle (DoTT) is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1993, and published by LucasArts. ...

The series has a somewhat fluid notion of continuity. Since the creative team changed dramatically between most installments of the game, there is little consistency not only between the graphical appearance of the games, but their basic plot points and backstories. (A few examples of this include the events leading up to LeChuck's death and the circumstances surrounding Herman Toothrot's original arrival on Monkey Island.) As such, it is rather difficult to describe the series as a whole since specific details vary from game to game and there is little consensus on which version constitutes canon. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Much of the soundtracks of the games is composed by Michael Land. The score largely consists of dub and reggae-inspired music. In keeping with the reggae influence, Elaine Marley's name may be a reference to Bob Marley. Outrun (1986) is an arcade game with an integral soundtrack. ... Michael Land (b. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Robert Nesta Marley, OM (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist. ...

Setting

Many islands, large and small, are scattered throughout the Tri-Island Area.

Each of the games takes place on fictional islands in the Caribbean. The time period in which they take place is around the Golden Age of Piracy but deliberately vague (although in the third game, the date of a coin reads 1687). The islands teem with pirates dressed in outfits that seem to come from movies and comic books rather than history, and there are many deliberate anachronisms and references to modern-day popular culture. Download high resolution version (1280x1024, 431 KB)A map of the Tri-Island Area by fanartist Paco, since no official map of the entire Area exists; www. ... Download high resolution version (1280x1024, 431 KB)A map of the Tri-Island Area by fanartist Paco, since no official map of the entire Area exists; www. ... West Indian redirects here. ... A painting depicting the era. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Look up Anachronism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Popular culture, or pop culture, (literally: the culture of the people) consists of widespread cultural elements in any given society. ...

The main setting of the Monkey Island games is the "Tri-Island Area", a fictional archipelago in the Caribbean. Since the first game in the series, SMI, each game except MI2 has visited the titular island of Monkey Island while introducing its own set of islands to explore. MI2 features four new islands, CMI introduces three, and EMI, which revisits some of the older islands, features three new islands as well. The Mergui Archipelago An archipelago is a landform which consists of a chain or cluster of islands. ... West Indian redirects here. ... Monkey Island as it appeared in the original game. ...

The main islands of the Tri-Island Area are Mêlée Island, Booty Island, and Plunder Island, which are all ruled by Governor Elaine Marley in place of her long lost grandfather, Horatio Torquemada Marley. Elaine moves from island to island at her convenience, though she considers her governor's mansion on Mêlée Island, the capital island of the area, as home. Mêlée Island in The Secret of Monkey Island. ... Booty Island is one of the islands featured in the adventure game Monkey Island 2: LeChucks Revenge. ... Plunder Island seen from the south. ... 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. ... Horatio Torquemada Marley is a fictional character mentioned and appearing in the Monkey Island series. ...

Other islands in the region are considered under the umbrella of Tri-Island Area as well, even though Elaine does not rule them. These include the pirate islands Scabb Island and Phatt Island, the urbanized Lucre Island and Jambalaya Island, the minor islands of Hook Island, Dinky Island, Skull Island and Knuttin Atoll, and the volcanic islands of Blood Island and Monkey Island itself. Additional islands seen in maps of the area but never visited include Spittle and Pinchpenny. This article is about nautical piracy. ... This article is about volcanoes in geology. ...

Characters

See also: Minor characters in Monkey Island

Many "supporting" characters have recurring roles in the games, including: The minor fictional characters in Monkey Island are fictional characters who appear in the Monkey Island series of adventure games by LucasArts. ...

• Stan, a disreputable salesman.
• The Voodoo Lady, who advises Guybrush in supernatural matters.
• Herman Toothrot, an old hermit who has a surprising past.
• 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 cannibals who eventually convert to vegetarianism.
• Meathook, an artist who used to be a pirate and has two hooks in place of his hands.

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Inspiration

Although Ron Gilbert has been widely quoted that the game was inspired by Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean ride, in his blog he stated that his true inspiration was Tim Powers' book On Stranger Tides^[1]. Ron Gilbert is an American computer game designer, programmer, and producer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure games, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games. ... Disneyland (since 1998 officially Disneyland Park, to distinguish it from the Disneyland Resort complex of which it is a part), is a theme park in Anaheim, California, USA (28 miles from Downtown Los Angeles). ... Poster for the original Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland Pirates of the Caribbean is a franchise that began as an attraction at Disney theme parks and has evolved to include a series of highly successful films and spinoffs. ... Tim Powers at the Israeli ICon 2005 SF&F Convention Timothy Thomas Powers (born February 29, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. ... On Stranger Tides (Ace Books, 1987, ISBN 0441626831) is a fantasy novel written by Tim Powers. ...

The games

The Secret of Monkey Island

Main article: The Secret of Monkey Island

The series debuted in 1990 with The Secret of Monkey Island on the Atari ST, Macintosh and IBM PC platforms, and it was later ported to Amiga, Sega CD and FM Towns. The Secret of Monkey Island (SMI) is a well known adventure game that spawned a series of famous and classic comedy adventure games, known as the Monkey Island series as well as making a name for LucasArts as a producer of adventure games, thus the largest competitor with Sierra Online... Image File history File links Mi1cover. ... The Atari 520ST Atari 1040STF with SC1224 color monitor The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was commercially popular from 1985 to the early 1990s. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... IBM PC (IBM 5150) with keyboard and green screen monochrome monitor (IBM 5151), running MS-DOS 5. ... The original Amiga 1000 (1985) with various peripherals The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation as an advanced home entertainment and productivity machine. ... The Sega Mega-CD (Japanese: メガCD) is an add-on device for the Sega Mega Drive released in Europe, Australia, and Japan. ... 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 game starts off with the main character Guybrush Threepwood stating "I want to be a pirate!", and he is soon off to prove himself to the old pirate captains. During the perilous pirate trials, he meets the beautiful governor Elaine Marley, with whom he falls in love, unaware that the ghost pirate LeChuck also has designs on her. When Elaine is kidnapped, Guybrush procures crew and ship to track LeChuck down, defeat him and rescue his love.

Islands visited:

• Mêlée and Hook Island: Mêlée's main settlement is surrounded by thick jungle and holds the infamous SCUMM Bar, a seedy dive where pirates drown their fear of LeChuck. Hook Island is a small rock off the north coast of Mêlée, the two islands connected by a track cable.
• Monkey Island: The cannibal-infested island that LeChuck uses as a base of operations.

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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

Main article: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

The second game, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge from 1991, was available for fewer platforms; it was only released for the Amiga, MS DOS, Macintosh, and later for FM Towns. Image File history File links Mi2cover. ... MS-DOS (for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system commercialized by Microsoft. ... 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. ...

As Guybrush, with a treasure chest in hand, and Elaine hang on to ropes in a void, he tells her the story of the game. He has decided to find the greatest of all treasures, that of Big Whoop. Unwittingly, he helps revive LeChuck, who is now in zombie form. Guybrush is eventually captured by his archnemesis. but escapes with help from Wally and finds the treasure only to find himself dangling from a rope, the situation from the beginning of the game. As Guybrush concludes his story, his rope breaks and he finds himself facing LeChuck, who he finally defeats using voodoo. The ending is very surrealistic and is open to a number of interpretations. Treasure is a concentration of riches, often that which is considered lost or forgotten until being rediscovered. ... The following is a list of famous items and things related to LucasArts series of Monkey Island adventure games. ...

Islands visited:

• Scabb Island, The starting island of the game. There is no treasure there, so Guybrush decides to look elsewhere.
• Phatt Island: An island, visited in order to piece together a map to Big Whoop.
• Booty Island: A part of Elaine's governorship, visited in order to find another piece of the map to Big Whoop.
• Dinky Island: The island where Guybrush finds the treasure chest.
• Monkey Island: Though this is not made apparent until near the end of the third game.

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The Curse of Monkey Island

Main article: The Curse of Monkey Island

The Curse of Monkey Island, the third in the series, was exclusively available for Windows users in 1997. The Curse of Monkey Island (CMI) is the third game in the Monkey Island series of computer adventure games by LucasArts, following the successful games The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChucks Revenge. ... Curse of Monkey Island Classics cover, scanned by wS for wikipedia This work is copyrighted. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ...

Guybrush unwittingly turns Elaine into a gold statue with a cursed ring and she is soon stolen by pirates. He tracks her down before searching for a ring that can lift the curse. LeChuck appears in a fiery demon form, and is on the heels of Guybrush until a standoff in LeChuck's amusement park ride, the Rollercoaster of Doom.

Islands visited:

• Plunder Island^[2]: An island home to a pirate retirement community under Elaine's gubernatorial powers. Guybrush must find a way off Plunder, in order to lift the curse.
• Blood Island: A run-down resort island and the resting place of a big, uncursed diamond ring.
• Skull Island: Located off the coast of Blood Island, it is the destination of a hideout for pirate smugglers who have made the uncursed diamond their own.
• Monkey Island: Guybrush and Elaine are both captured and taken to LeChuck's island, now utilized as an amusement park.

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Escape from Monkey Island

Main article: Escape from Monkey Island

The last game to date, Escape from Monkey Island, was released in 2000 for Windows, PlayStation 2 and Macintosh. Escape from Monkey Island (EMI) is the fourth, and currently final, game in the Monkey Island series of computer adventure games, released in 2000 by LucasArts, following the successful games The Secret of Monkey Island (SMI), Monkey Island 2: LeChucks Revenge (MI2), and The Curse of Monkey Island (CMI). ... Image File history File links Escape_from_monkey_island_mac_cover. ... The PlayStation 2 , abbreviated PS2) is Sonys second video game console, the successor to the PlayStation and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3. ...

When Guybrush Threepwood and Elaine Marley return from their honeymoon, they find that Elaine has been declared officially dead, her mansion is under destruction order, and her position as governor is up for election. Guybrush investigates and unearths a conspiracy by LeChuck and evil real estate developer Ozzie Mandrill to use a voodoo talisman, "The Ultimate Insult," to make all pirates docile in order to turn the Caribbean into a center of tourism. Ozzie Mandrill is a fictional villain in the 2000 adventure game Escape from Monkey Island by LucasArts. ...

Islands visited:

• Mêlée and Hook Island: EMI revisits the first two islands of the game, though certain things have changed.
• Lucre Island: Guybrush travels to Lucre to talk with the Marley family lawyers, but he is framed for bankrobbery by Pegnose Pete.
• Jambalaya Island and Knuttin Atoll: Jambalaya is the place to find the "Ultimate Insult", but the island has already been taken over by consumer franchises and the pirates are sent to Knuttin Atoll for re-socializing.
• Monkey Island: Guybrush is taken hostage by LeChuck, and he must figure out how to escape from Monkey Island.

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Common themes

The games in the series share several minigames, puzzles, in-jokes, and references. 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. ...

Minigames

Each game contains a minigame based on learning and repetition of a sequence in order to become more proficient: insult swordfighting 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. Insult swordfighting is a feature of many of the Monkey Island graphic adventure games. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (sometimes also referred to as Indiana Jones 4) is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1992 and published by LucasArts. ... Spitting is the act of forcibly ejecting saliva or other substances from the mouth. ...

Pop-culture references

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 their detection and listing. 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 first easter egg For the decorated eggs given out to celebrate the Easter holiday, see Easter egg. ...

Running gags include lines such as "Look behind you, a three-headed monkey!", the introduction "I'm Guybrush Threepwood, a mighty pirate", "How appropriate, you fight like a cow", "Hi, I'm selling these fine leather jackets" (a reference to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure), and "That's the second biggest [object] I've ever seen" (and in EMI "That's the second bigg... No, that's the biggest conch shell I've ever seen!"), and the astounding fact that Guybrush can hold his breath for 10 minutes. The running gag is a popular hallmark of comic and serious forms of entertainment. ... Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1989, published by Lucasfilm Games (now LucasArts). ...

Many parallels have been drawn between the series and the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. This would be very appropriate since Ron Gilbert has openly admitted that sections of Monkey Island 2 borrowed extensively from the original Disneyland ride, such as the famous "dog holding the keys to the jail-cell". However, he has also said that he thought the latest movie (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest) may have 'borrowed' from the Monkey Island series too, due to many similarities (e.g. the cannibals, the coffin Jack Sparrow uses as a boat, akin to that used by Guybrush to find the Voodoo Lady, as well as Tia Dalma's hut built on the bog, very reminiscent of the Voodoo Lady's hut in the second game). Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a movie of adventure and romance set in the Caribbean during the seventeenth century. ... Poster for the original Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland Pirates of the Caribbean is a franchise that began as an attraction at Disney theme parks and has evolved to include a series of highly successful films and spinoffs. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Each game in the series features cameo appearances by Steve Purcell's characters Sam & Max (who were featured in their own LucasArts adventure game, Sam & 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, as toys in LeChuck's demonic carnival and as light-formations at the theatre (in Mega-Monkey mode) in the third and as one of the possible aliases for Pegnose Pete in the World of Prosthesis puzzle in the fourth scene from EMI. In "spongebob B.C." when patchy sits on a rock in the front steps some of the music can be heard Steve Purcell is best known as the creator of comic book characters Sam and Max, of the Freelance Police - a dog and rabbit crime-fighting duo. ... Sam and Max are a pair of fictional comic book characters who occupy a parody of American popular culture. ... Sam & Max Hit the Road is a graphical adventure game, originally developed and released by LucasArts in 1993 for DOS and Macintosh computers. ... Booty Island is one of the islands featured in the adventure game Monkey Island 2: LeChucks Revenge. ... Lucre Island is the first new island featured in Escape from Monkey Island and apparently the largest urban-centre in the Tri-Island Area. ...

The secret

None of the games explicitly reveal the "Secret of Monkey Island" (although creator Ron Gilbert has stated that the secret was not revealed in any of the games, and that the true secret would be revealed if he got to work on the fifth entry in the series). LeChuck himself, when asked in the second and third games, refuses to answer the question; Guybrush can eventually prod LeChuck to confess that he does not 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. One of these theories states that the bizarre revelation at the end of MI2 is the true secret of Monkey Island (again, Ron Gilbert has confirmed that the secret is yet to be discovered, in an interview with GameSpot). The fact that it was debunked in CMI, the theory states, is merely a retcon by the new development team after Ron Gilbert's departure. Elements in the closing scenes of MI2 seem to support this theory, as do certain comments of pirates in the insult swordfighting section of the first game, asking Guybrush to "play along". Members of the CMI team (many of whom were also part of the MI2 team) claimed at one point that they knew what the original secret was: that the storyline of the games was simply the fantasy of a child. Gilbert, however, has contradicted this in various interviews, saying that he never told anyone what the true secret of Monkey Island is [1]. A large article about the subject can be found here. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Gilbert stated in a 2004 interview that when the game was originally conceived it was considered "too big", so they split it into three parts. He added that he "knows what the third [part] is" and "how the story's supposed to end," indicating that he had a definite concept of the secret and a conclusive third game.^[3]

The team behind Escape from Monkey Island attempted to resolve the issue by showing that the Giant Monkey Head was actually the control room of a Giant Monkey Robot. The cut-scene in which the revelation was made is called The Real Secret of Monkey Island. This however seemed to confuse the issue.

Future of the series

A fifth Monkey Island game has been rumored (and is the source of jokes in the fourth game), although no official word has been released from LucasArts. One significant hint at this is in the fourth game, when both the Voodoo Lady character and Guybrush make claims about involvement in "an unbreakable five game contract." The company's cancellation of the planned sequels Full Throttle: Hell on Wheels and Sam & Max 2: Freelance Police may indicate a strong reluctance to produce new graphic adventures. Full Throttle is a graphical adventure game, originally developed in-house and released in May 1995 by LucasArts. ... A screenshot from the E3 trailer of Sam & Max Freelance Police. ...

In a recent Gamespot interview, Gilbert claims the true secret of Monkey Island has yet to be revealed, and that he wishes to make a fifth Monkey Island game to conclude the series.[2]

During television network G4's coverage of the 2006 E3 Convention, a LucasArts executive was asked about the return of popular franchises such as Monkey Island. The executive responded that the company was currently focusing on new franchises, and that LucasArts may return to the "classic franchises" in the next decade.[3] G4 is an American cable and satellite television channel originally geared toward male viewers aged 12–34 and devoted to the world of video games and the video game lifestyle. ... E³ logo The Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly known as E³, was an annual trade show for the computer and video games industry presented by the Entertainment Software Association. ...

Footnotes

1. ^ Ron Gilbert (September 20, 2004). On Stranger Tides. GrumpyGamer. Retrieved on April 17, 2006.
2. ^ Plunder Island was erroneously referred to as Puerto Pollo in EMI; Puerto Pollo is the main settlement on Plunder Island.
3. ^ Idle Thumbs, Ron Gilbert Speaks: Part 2

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See also

• LucasArts adventure games
• SCUMM
• ScummVM
• GrimE
• Ron Gilbert

Before concentrating almost exclusively on Star Wars titles, LucasArts was known for their point-and-click adventure games, nearly all of which received high scoring reviews at the time of their release. ... 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. ... ScummVM is a multi-platform stack-based virtual machine which was originally made to allow one to play LucasArts adventure games that use the SCUMM system on platforms other than those for which they were originally released. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Ron Gilbert is an American computer game designer, programmer, and producer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure games, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games. ...

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• ScummVM - A multi-platform open-source SCUMM interpreter allowing the first three MI games to be played on all modern platforms
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• Grumpy Gamer - The personal blog of Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert
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