About Monkey Island

''The Secret of Monkey Island" is what started it all off, released in 1990 it revolutionised the Adventure game on the home computer as we knew it. It follows a young wannabe pirate named Guybrush Threepwood in his quest to become a Pirate. (but you knew that already, didn’t you?)
 What set this game apart from anything else that came before it was the excellent humour! Although looking dated by today’s standards... the humour and story still hold up, in fact, SOMI is still considered by many as the best of the series.
Ok, about the story... You start off on Melee Island, a small, unhappy (and slightly weird) island deep in the Caribbean. There is a shortage of pirates because of a Ghost Pirate roaming about the sea, causing terror and other general Ghost pirate stuff. This would be the evil Ghost Pirate LeChuck who is also in love with the lovely Elaine Marley, Governor of Melee Island.
 Anyway, to cut a long story short... boy meets girl, Ghost steals girl, boy sails after girl, Ghost gets zapped, Boy gets girl and lives happily ever after, almost. Ok, ok, not quite the story... but if you want to know about the story in depth I really recommend playing the game

Monkey Island 2: LeChucks Revenge" finally appeared two years after "The Secret of Monkey Island" in 1992. Much to everyone’s surprise it was even better than the first! Funnier, bigger and better looking. All the best traits of SOMI were there but enhanced, even the music!
This chapter of the story sees our hero Guybrush Threepwood boring people to death with his tale of zapping the Ghost Pirate LeChuck, even though no one seems very interested (not that they would believe him anyway!) he continues. Guybrush reveals that he is here on Scabb Island (did I forget to mention Scabb Island? oops.. sorry) looking for the legendary treasure of Big Whoop! One other small detail worth mentioning is that LeChuck doesn’t feel like staying dead (hey, it didn’t stop him the first time!) and so has been re-animated into a lovely rotting Zombie!
 Guybrush Thrushweed's quest for Big Whoop eventually takes him to a total of four Caribbean islands (and one Zombie Pirates Fortress) before he finds Big Whoop! Lets just say that this is one of the biggest adventure games I’ve ever seen. Do you want to know what Big Whoop is? Do you REALLY want to know? Well tough.. go play the game ;-) Actually, you don’t really find out what Big Whoop is until The Curse of Monkey Island.
The Curse of Monkey Island" is the third Monkey Island game... and it is FANTASTIC! I know there where a lot of concerns from fans about CMI, will it be as funny, will the new style graphics be good for Monkey Island, will the voices be right? The list goes on.
The voice of Guybrush (by Dominic Armato) is perfect... I’ve read in an interview that he said he IS Guybrush, well he was right! The humour remains faithful to the first two games. From the moment the first chicken floated by Guybrush in the intro... to the end sequence (Well, it was laughably short!) I was in hysterics! It's the little things that make it so great, like the clock on Plunder Island... it tells the right time and chimes the LeChuck tune. This is one of the Arcade Sections. Featuring the voices of Gary Coleman (Arnold of Different Strokes)! Dave Madden (Ruben Kincaid of The Partridge Family)! Alan Young (Wilbur Post of Mr. Ed and 'Scrooge McDuck' from 'Duck Tales')! CMI also features some great moments that I would class as 'classic' right up there with the 'Ghost Dance' and 'Sword Fighting' from MI1 and the 'Skeleton Dance' in MI2. The Pirate Ship Song is absolutely brilliant, as too is, erm... hmmmm, well I`m sure I’ll think of another by the end of this page. The Pirate Ship Song There was only really two disappointments in the whole of CMI. The first was Stan, He didn’t move his arms right (yeah, yeah.. so I’m picky!) and I didn’t feel his voice was fast enough. The other disappointment was the ending, which was a little too short and un-interesting. But still, it doesn’t affect the actual game that is a worthy addition to the Memoirs of Guybrush Threepwood.
Oh, and one last thing... THE MUSIC IS AMAZING!! The music is of such high quality that I find it tough to choose a favourite tune. If only there was a CD Soundtrack ;-)