* 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

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.

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

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

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 ).

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.

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

The Secret of Monkey Island was the fifth Lucasfilm Games project powered by the SCUMM engine, originally developed for Maniac Mansion.

LucasArts released a remake with updated audiovisuals titled The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition in July 2009 for iPhone, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox 360 exclusively via download.

The voice actors included Dominic Armato as Guybrush Threepwood and Earl Boen as LeChuck ; most had provided voice work in sequels to The Secret of Monkey Island.

After researching the Monkey Island series ' history, they decided to make " something fresh and new while staying true to the original ", which resulted in the idea of The Secret of Monkey Islands remake.

The Secret of Monkey Island received positive reviews from critics.

Amiga Powers Mark Ramshaw wrote, " With The Secret of Monkey Island, the mouse-controlled, graphic-adventure comes of age.

" He noted that the game's plot and visual and aural presentation fit together to create a thick atmosphere, and finished, " Forget all those other milestone adventures ( Zork, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings et al ) — for sheer enjoyment and general all-round perfection, The Secret of Monkey Island creams ' em all in style.

The Secret of Monkey Island has featured regularly in lists of " top " games, such as Computer Gaming World's Hall of Fame and IGN's Video Game Hall of Fame.

In 2009, IGN named The Secret of Monkey Island one of the ten best LucasArts adventure games.

Like the original release, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition received positive reviews from critics.

* The " Draug " are villains that walk ashore onto fictional " Solomon Island ", New England in " The Secret World ".

" The ethnographic evidence for these claims is outlined in Heyerdahl's book Aku Aku: The Secret of Easter Island.

* Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island ISBN 0-14-001454-3

Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island.

Secret ballots were introduced, and a bicameral parliament was elected on 9 March 1857, by which time 109, 917 people lived in the province.

From October 1784 to September 1786 he was employed by Nepean, who was in charge of the Secret Service relating to the Bourbon Powers, France and Spain, to spy on the French naval arsenals at Toulon and other ports.

Kirk had long believed that the local Doon Hill, was the gateway to the " Secret Commonwealth ", or the land of the Fairies.

Gromley said he was told the details of the bomb plot by Louis Merletti, a former director of the Secret Service.

Not until F. W. Winterbotham's book The Ultra Secret was published in 1974 did ex-Bletchley Park staff feel free to reveal something of their wartime work.

Only then was it sent out to the Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 ), the intelligence chiefs in the relevant ministries, and later on to high-level commanders in the field.

The " X " denotes the Roman numeral " ten ", as this was the tenth such station to be opened by the Secret Intelligence Service.

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine in May 1915, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, was visited by two officers of the Admiralty's Secret Service branch at the naval base at Queenstown, Ireland.

In 1980, the gag-based comedy Airplane !, a spoof of the previous decade's disaster film series was released and paved the way for more of the same including Top Secret!

A notable publication is Kris Dhillon's book The Curry Secret, which was first published in 1989 but has been reprinted as recently as 2008.

Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, recalled that when he asked Lu Weidong, a teacher at the party school in Yan ' an, why this is the case, Lu responded that the idea of the party having its own website was " redundant " and that " All the important media is owned by the Party, so we have no need to set up a website.

* Another reason given in the 1987 story " The Secret Revealed " was the public simply does not know that Superman has a secret identity, considering he does not wear a mask, which implies to most that he has nothing to hide.

In a prelude to the Secret Invasion storyline, Professor X was at the meeting of the Illuminati when it came to the discussion about the Skrulls planning an invasion by taking out Earth's heroes and posing as them.

Under the act, Eisenhower was entitled to receive a lifetime pension, state-provided staff and a Secret Service detail.

It starred Patrick McGoohan of Danger Man / Secret Agent and The Prisoner fame in the title role and was directed by James Neilson.

Cover art for paperback edition of The Secret of Saturn's Rings ( 1966 ) Wollheim's first story, " The Man from Ariel ," was published in the January 1934 issue of Wonder Stories when he was nineteen.

The new album was edited down from double album to a single disc and released as Secret Messages in 1983.

Although Secret Messages debuted at number four in the United Kingdom, it fell off the charts, failing to catch fire with a lack of hit singles in the U. K. ( though " Rock ' n ' Roll Is King " was a sizeable hit in UK, the US and Australia ) and a lukewarm media response.

The most successful of the first wave was Maximum Speed, which successfully captured the frenetic world of a mod revival scene that was propelling bands like Secret Affair, Purple Hearts and The Chords into the UK charts.

This " Disneyfied " image of the gnome was built upon by the illustrated children's book classic The Secret Book of Gnomes ( 1976 ), in the original Dutch Leven en werken van de Kabouter.

The Secret Gospel of Mark refers to a version of the Gospel of Mark being circulated in 2nd century Alexandria, which was kept from the Christian community at large.

The Gestapo (; abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei, " Secret State Police ") was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe.