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Once that game was in the bag, Gilbert immediately began production on Monkey Island. However, the company’s main designers (including Gilbert) were all currently assigned to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He pitched the idea to LucasFilm, and they loved it. One of these ideas was to base a game in the world of pirates, with the feel he would be going for based on the Pirates of the Caribbean theme park ride and a novel by Tim Powers called On Stranger Tides (the latter of which combined piracy with voodoo). He’d just completed Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders and was brainstorming some new ideas for future adventure games.

The concept behind The Secret of Monkey Island was conceived by Ron Gilbert back in 1988. If this cover doesn't say adventure, I don't know what does. Before I attempt to make a pirate out of Guybrush though, it’s worth spending some time looking at the game’s origins, and who was involved in its creation. I really don’t think I’ve played the game since my Amiga days, which finished nearly 20 years ago, so I doubt I’ll be breezing through it on memory alone the way I did with the King’s Quest Remake. Anyway, the point is that we’ve reached a very significant moment in the genre’s history, and it’s one I’ve been looking forward to since the blog began. The Adventure Gamers website produced a top 100 adventure games of all time a few years ago, and The Secret of Monkey Island came in at 14th, which is far and away the highest of all the games on the playlist so far (Hero’s Quest didn’t even make the top 100 though, so I’m not sure it’s a list worth paying much attention to). Computer Gaming World ranked it the 19th best game ever.

Obviously this list-fetish has brought many Best Games of All Time lists past my eyes, and there wouldn’t be many that haven’t included The Secret of Monkey Island somewhere on them. Top 50 movies of 2013? 1001 Comics to Read Before You Die? 67 Best Arnie One-Liners? You name it, I can get some form of enjoyment out of it. It hardly even matters what the topic is. As you could probably guess, I like a good list.

Let play the secret of monkey island special edition