Coleman also made video game appearances in The Curse of Monkey Island ( 1997 ) and Postal 2 ( 2003 ).

* Video games: Secret of Mana and its successor Secret of Evermore ( where the menu was used to accelerate the pacing of combat ), Seiken Densetsu 3, America's Army 3, Habitat, Beyond Good & Evil, Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, Neverwinter Nights, Normality, The Sims, Perfect Dark, Planescape: Torment, Sacrifice, Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Second Life, Battlefield 2, Freedom Fighters, Ratchet & Clank, Silver, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Crysis, Mass Effect, Warzone 2100, Halo Wars, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, Max Payne 3, Trauma Center, Brütal Legend, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Dragon Age: Origins, Prototype, Cortex Command, Imperium Romanum

Both magazines compared the game to Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge but also pointed out that it is not a copy and is a quality product.

On 12 August they anchored at Monkey Harbour on Chacachacare Island.

* Ulysses is the middle name of fictional character Dr. Perry Cox on TV show Scrubs and Guybrush Threepwood from the adventure game series Monkey Island series.

* Largo LaGrande, a minor character in the Monkey Island series of adventure games

The system was fully evolved in The Secret of Monkey Island and remained in all later LucasArts adventures, with the exception of Loom.

At the time a sequel to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure was decided, most of the staff of Lucasfilm Games was occupied with other projects such as The Secret of Monkey Island and The Dig.

LucasArts developed a port of the enhanced edition for the Sega CD, but the release was eventually canceled because The Secret of Monkey Island failed to be much of a commercial success on the platform.

Wee ended his review by calling Fate of Atlantis " a brilliant game, even beating Secret of Monkey Island 2.

His sole complaint was about the game's linearity compared to Monkey Island 2 ; but he finished by saying, " It's a minor point, anyway, and it shouldn't put you off buying what is one of the best Amiga adventures ever.

The Secret of Monkey Island is a point-and-click graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games.

The Secret of Monkey Island was the fifth game built with the SCUMM engine, which was heavily modified to include a more user-friendly interface.

Critics praised The Secret of Monkey Island for its humor, audiovisuals, and gameplay.

The game spawned a number of sequels, collectively known as the Monkey Island series.

Gilbert, Schafer and Grossman also led the development of the sequel Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge.

The Secret of Monkey Island is a 2D adventure game played from a third-person perspective.

Like other LucasArts adventure games, The Secret of Monkey Island features a design philosophy that makes the player character's death nearly impossible ( Guybrush does drown if he stays underwater for more than ten minutes ).

These quests take Guybrush throughout the island, where he hears of stories of the Ghost Pirate LeChuck, who apparently died in an expedition to the mysterious Monkey Island, an act that was meant to win the love of the governor Elaine Marley.

However, as he completes the tasks set for him, the island is raided by LeChuck and his undead crew, who abduct Elaine and then retreat to their secret hideout on Monkey Island.

When Guybrush reaches Monkey Island, he discovers a village of cannibals in a dispute with Herman Toothrot, a ragged castaway marooned there.

Development of The Last Crusade was finished in 1989, which allowed Gilbert to begin production of The Secret of Monkey Island, then known internally under the working title Mutiny on Monkey Island.

The game was the third entry in the Monkey Island series, and the first not to involve series creator Ron Gilbert.

Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert, who left LucasArts after the completion of LeChuck's Revenge, went on to found Humongous Entertainment in 1992.

* Kazuhiko Katō, also known as Monkey Punch, creator of Lupin III began as a dōjinshi artist.

The original script for The Secret of Monkey Island called for a character simply named " the Governor "; Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert had envisioned her as a far more ruthless character.

* Monkey Punch ( born 1937 ), manga artist and creator of Lupin III

Casey is also known as the creator of the unofficial holiday, Monkey Day.

She had a loving bond with her creator, the Alchemist, who becomes Skeleton King due to an accident in his lab caused by Mandarin ( the original leader of the Monkey team who later became evil ), ( when he was human, the Alchemist used to call Nova " Dearest Nova.

Inspired by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Aldo Leopold's land ethic, and Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang, a group of activists composed of environmental activist Dave Foreman, ex-Yippie ( Youth International Party ) Mike Roselle, Wyoming Wilderness Society representatives Bart Koehler and Howie Wolke and Bureau of Land Management employee Ron Kezar pledged, " No Compromise in Defense of Mother Earth!

Video game developer Ron Gilbert has often said that the ambience for the Monkey Island video game series was partially inspired by the Disney attraction.

" Bon Chance " Louie ( played by Ron Moody in the pilot, Roddy McDowall in the series ) is the owner of the Monkey Bar and the French magistrate for Bora Gora.

At LucasArts, Grossman wrote and programmed The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge together with Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer.

Ron Gilbert ( born January 1, 1964 ) is an American computer game designer, programmer, and producer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure games, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games.

* In the Disney cartoon Kim Possible, Kim's sidekick, Ron Stoppable, is embued with the abilities of Monkey Kung Fu master by four ancient statues.

Created by Ron Gilbert for LucasArts, LeChuck was introduced in The Secret of Monkey Island and is the chief antagonist of the series.

Created by Ron Gilbert for LucasArts, the character first appears in The Secret of Monkey Island and is one of the core characters in the franchise.

* “ The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon ”, Ron Amundson's copy of his Skeptical Inquirer article of 1985

Milieus encountered in the second series include the worlds of Irish myth and the Orlando Furioso ( again ) in " Professor Harold and the Trustees ," L. Ron Hubbard's setting from The Case of the Friendly Corpse and L. Frank Baum's land of Oz in " Sir Harold and the Gnome King ," the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to the West in " Sir Harold and the Monkey King ," the romantic fantasies of Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote ( with the unique twist of its being Quixote's version of reality rather than Cervantes ') in " Knight and the Enemy ," Virgil's Graeco-Roman epic the Aeneid in " Arms and the Enchanter ," the old Russian Tale of Igor's Campaign in " Enchanter Kiev ," Bhavabhuti's Baital Pachisi ( or " Vikram and the Vampire "), a proto-Arabian Nights collection of Indian tales, in " Sir Harold and the Hindu King ," Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Barsoom in " Sir Harold of Zodanga ," and William Shakespeare's The Tempest in " Harold Shakespeare.

Gilbert aimed to avoid such errors in The Secret of Monkey Island.

* Huntor ( voiced by Ed Gilbert )-An alien lion-like hunter who wants to kill Monkey for use as a hunting trophy.

The development team for the game was largely the same as for The Secret of Monkey Island, and Gilbert was once more joined by Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman.

Gilbert parted ways with LucasArts after Monkey Island 2, while Grossman went on to co-design Day of the Tentacle with Schafer.

According to Gilbert, the Monkey Island series was partially inspired by the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.

Monkey Island is noted for its humorous story, though it was originally conceived as having a more serious tone ; Schafer and Grossman wrote much more humorous placeholder dialog, which persuaded Gilbert to turn it into a comedy.

* Martha Monkey, a mischievous tomboy who replaced naughty schoolboy Gilbert Golly.

Gilbert created many successful adventure games at LucasArts, including the classic The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge.

In 2007, Gilbert created " Threepwood ", an exclusively Monkey Island-themed guild on the World of Warcraft server Quel ' Dorei, and Gilbert began to collaborate with Hothead Games on Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, a game based on the webcomic Penny Arcade.

Although still working at Hothead Games, Gilbert contributed to the design for Telltale Games ' Tales of Monkey Island, taking part in the brainstorming process early in the development of the game.

The episodic fifth entry in the Monkey Island series marked the first time Gilbert worked on a Monkey Island game since 1991's LeChuck's Revenge.