Another notable contributor was author Orson Scott Card, who wrote the insults for the 'Insult Swordfighting' section. The project leader was Ron Gilbert, and the game was designed by Gilbert, Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman. In the Fall of 1992, the CD-ROM version was ported to the FM Towns. 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). 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). 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. 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.

The first installment in the series, The Secret of Monkey Island ( SMI), was the fifth game to use the SCUMM engine.

The games' soundtracks are filled with faux- reggae music Elaine Marley's name is also an obvious reference to Bob Marley. 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. 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.Įach of the games takes place on fictional islands in the Caribbean. 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). The Monkey Island series is known for its humor and 'player-friendly' qualities.

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