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I cursed my luck again as I slid down the monkey's throat. Have my dreams of guzzling grog and plundering galleons been reduced to this? "Three small trials and you're a pirate like us," they said. Fair enough. If only I could stomach the foul brew these scurvy seadogs swilled, the rest would be easy. How could I have known I'd meet a powerful and beautiful woman with a jealous suitor too stupid to realize he'd been dead for years? And how can I crawl through this great stone monkey to find a man who walks three inches above the ground and sets fire to his beard every morning? Do business …
- Released
- 1990
- Genres
- Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure
- Platforms
- Atari ST/STE, Mac, DOS, FM Towns, Amiga, Sega CD
- Game modes
- Single player
- Engine
- SCUMM
- Franchise
- Monkey Island
- Developer
- Lucasfilm Games
- Publisher
- Lucasfilm Games, JVC Musical Industries
Key facts
- Developers
- Lucasfilm Games , A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. Games (special edition)
- Publishers
- NA : Lucasfilm Games EU : U.S. Gold The Software Toolworks (CD)
- Director
- Ron Gilbert
- Producer
- Greg Hammond
- Designers
- Ron Gilbert Dave Grossman Tim Schafer
- Programmers
- Aric Wilmunder, CD-ROM conversion , Wallace Poulter, Brad P. Taylor
- Artists
- Steve Purcell , Mark Ferrari, Mike Ebert, Martin Cameron
- Writers
- Ron Gilbert Dave Grossman Tim Schafer
- Composers
- Michael Land Patrick Mundy
- Series
- Monkey Island
- Engine
- SCUMM
- Platforms
- Amiga Atari ST FM Towns Classic Mac OS MS-DOS Sega CD iOS Windows OS X PlayStation 3 Xbox 360
- Release
- 16 color version , October 1990 ( 1990-10 ) , 256 color version , December 1990 ( 1990-12 ) , CD-ROM version , 1992 , Special edition , July 15, 2009
- Genre
- Graphic adventure
- Mode
- Single-player
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- publication date
- 1990-10-00
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The Secret of Monkey Island is a 1990 point-and-click graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games. It takes place in a fictional version of the Caribbean during the age of piracy. The player assumes the role of Guybrush Threepwood, a young man who dreams of becoming a pirate, and explores fictional islands while solving puzzles.
The game was conceived in 1988 by Lucasfilm employee Ron Gilbert, who designed it with Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman. Gilbert's frustrations with contemporary adventure titles led him to make the player character's death almost impossible, which meant that gameplay focused on exploration. The atmosphere was based on that of the Pirates of the Caribbean theme park ride. The Secret of Monkey Island was the fifth game built with the SCUMM engine, which was heavily modified to include a more user-friendly interface.