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I think it is a must to play the monkey island adventures then! If you want to compare this to a movie or show, Pirates of the Caribbean would probably be mentioned, but monkey island was first.

I grew up with this kind of games and the Lucas arts games were the ones I liked the best. Zak McKracken, Day of the Tentacle and lots of other adventures was what I like to play in the 90s.

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Fun fact: Pirates of the Caribbean began life as a film adaptation of Monkey Island at ILM.

Quite a few details survived the script rewrites...remember the jailhouse dog with the keys in its mouth in the first Pirates?

I believe Gilbert has petitioned Disney a few times now for the rights to Monkey Island to create new games, though I don’t think they’ve responded.

I always thought the jailhouse dog was an homage to the part of the Disney ride where a dog is holding a key in its mouth in front of a bunch of prisoners. I've never played any of the Monkey Island games to know if that's significant in them though.

https://pirates.fandom.com/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_(ri...

The Monkey Island game was heavily influenced by the Disney ride and (as sibling comment noted) Tim Powers' book On Stranger Tides. The Venn Diagram of who influenced who is nearly a circle, as the game was influenced by the Disney ride and the book and the movies were influenced by the ride and the games and the book and now the updates to the ride are influenced from the movies and the book. Disney even owns the Monkey Island games now in buying Lucasfilm, so all your pirate fictions are belong to Disney. (Yarr.)

Fun fact: The true inspiration for most of Monkey Island was, in fact, the 1987 novel On Stranger Tides¹ by Tim Powers (no, not the 2011 Jack Sparrow movie).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=On_Stranger_Tides...

> The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise originated with the theme ride, which opened at Disneyland in 1967

IIRC Monkey Island took some inspiration from the rides.

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