The rights to Monkey Island remained with LucasArts, and the third and fourth games were created without direct involvement from the original writing staff.
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15 Facts About Monkey Island
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Monkey Island series is known for its humor and "player-friendly" qualities.
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Main setting of the Monkey Island games is the "Tri-Island Area", a fictional archipelago in the Caribbean.
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The Curse of Monkey Island introduces three, and Escape from Monkey Island, which revisits some of the older islands, features three new islands as well.
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Tales of Monkey Island takes place in a new area of the Caribbean called the "Gulf of Melange".
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The Curse of Monkey Island was released after what could be said to be the biggest technological change in the gaming industry.
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The Curse of Monkey Island is the only game in the series to feature this style of animation; subsequent games used 3D polygon animation.
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Tales of Monkey Island is the fifth installment within the series, co-developed by Telltale Games and LucasArts, with a simultaneous release both on WiiWare and PC.
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Tales of Monkey Island was released on PlayStation Network as a bundle for US$20.
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Several elements from the Monkey Island series appear in Sea of Thieves as part of its June 2021 "A Pirate's Life" update.
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When Pirates was released, many fans of the Monkey Island series made comparisons of parts of the film to the games, and when news of the cancelled film first arose in 2011, the potential connection of Elliott and Rossio to the Monkey Island script started.
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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.
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Secret of Monkey Island poked fun at rival company Sierra's game-over screens.
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Later, in The Curse of Monkey Island, Guybrush looks through a crack in the ceiling of an underground crypt to find himself peeking out of the same stump.
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Ron Gilbert has openly admitted that sections of Monkey Island 2 borrowed extensively from the original Pirates of the Caribbean Disneyland ride, such as the famous "dog holding the keys to the jail-cell".
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