History VideoGame / TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland

* TheThreeTrials: The TropeNamer.

Way later in 2009, LucasArts got back in the AdventureGame business ([[SugarWiki/AndTheFandomRejoiced finally redeeming themselves in the eyes of adventure fans]]) by remaking the game, complete with voice acting by the cast of ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland''.

* ChaseScene: Guybrush chases the storekeeper to learn the location of the Sword Master. That puzzle can be skipped with a walkthrough however.

* CopyProtection: The "Dial-a-Pirate" code wheel.

* DistressedDamsel: In the second half the game you are supposed to save Elaine from getting married to [=LeChuck=]. But just as you [[SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace interrupt the ceremony]], you find out she had freed herself a long time ago, due to [=LeChuck=]'s gullibleness, and was just about to complete the final step in her plan for getting rid of him, and now [[NiceJobBreakingItHero you have messed it up]]. Subverted trope, as Elaine turns out to be a BadassDamsel with a OffscreenMomentOfAwesome.

* {{Robinsonade}}: The Monkey Island arc. Guybrush and Herman Toothrot before him. With GoMadFromTheIsolation elements.

* DistressedDamsel: In the second half the game you are supposed to save Elaine from getting married to [=LeChuck=]. But just as you [[SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace interrupt the ceremony]], you find out she had freed herself a long time ago, due to [=LeChuck=]'s gullibleness, and was just about to complete the final step in her plan for getting rid of him, and now [[NiceJobBreakingItHero you have messed it up]]. Subverted trope, as Elaine turns out to be a BadassDamsel

* DistressedDamsel: In the second half the game you are supposed to save Elaine from getting married to [=LeChuck=]. But just as you [[SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace interrupt the ceremony]], you find out she had freed herself a long time ago, due to [=LeChuck=]'s gullibleness, and was just about to complete the final step in her plan for getting rid of him, and now [[NiceJobBreakingItHero you have messed it up]].

* GargleBlaster: Grog, which contains one or more of the following: kerosene, propylene glycerole, artificial sweeteners, sulphuric acid, rum, acetone, red dye #2, scumm, axle grease, battery acid, and/or pepperoni. It's so vile that it dissolves the mugs used to contain them, which leads into a puzzle where you have to carry a mug of grog from one location to another.

* CreatorCameo: The troll that demands a [[ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia troll toll]] is actually [[spoiler:George Lucas in a troll costume]]. (This is made much clearer in the special edition, where you can even see [[spoiler: a red plaid flannel shirt sticking out when the suit is unzipped]].)

* YouFightLikeACow: The extended swordfighting subquest is the TropeNamer.

** A somewhat straight (an EasterEgg since it's a very unlikely death) with the same Sierra style and interface if [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMq762wbQS8&feature=related Guybrush drowns]] after failling to solve the underwater idol puzzle within 10 minutes.

* HaveANiceDeath: Parodied, where Guybrush can fall from a cliff and a Sierra adventure-game death screen appears for a moment before Guybrush reappears thanks to a "rubber tree."

-->--Excerpted from ''The Memoirs of Guybrush Threepwood: The MonkeyIsland Years''

The first game in the MonkeyIsland series, ''The Secret of Monkey Island'', was released in 1990. The game begins as our hero, Guybrush Threepwood, finds himself on Mêlée Island™, with one clear objective on his mind: Becoming a Mighty Pirate™. To become one, he must first pass "The Three Trials", and while doing so he learns of Elaine Marley, the local governor, and her story with the notorious ghost pirate, [=LeChuck=], who now terrorizes the waters around Mêlée Island™ together with his undead crew. After passing the trials, Guybrush finds out Elaine have been kidnapped by [=LeChuck=], and he must now set sail for [=LeChuck=]'s lair which lies on the titular Monkey Island in order to save her.

Way later in 2009, LucasArts got back in the AdventureGame business ([[AndTheFandomRejoiced finally redeeming themselves in the eyes of adventure fans]]) by remaking the game, complete with voice acting by the cast of ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland''.

* AllJustADream: The game's littered with clues that this might be the case, as was Gilbert's original intention. They've mostly been RetConned into either MediumAwareness or AnachronismStew. While this has never been ''explicitly'' {{Jossed}}, Gilbert has claimed that "it was all just a dream" is NOT the elusive Secret, and that the ending of the second game was always meant as a joke and a cliffhanger.

** Other [[ShoutOut shout-outs]] to the Stump Joke can be found in VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland, where you get to see the other side of the stump, as well as GrimFandango and {{Psychonauts}}, where the respective player characters both discover "a tunnel that leads into a system of catacombs".

** Many to other [=LucasArts=] games, including ''{{Loom}}'', the ''IndianaJones'' series, and (in the Special Edition artwork) ''DayOfTheTentacle'' and ''GrimFandango''.

* NonSequiturThud: [[{{Loom}} I am Bobbin,]] [[MythologyGag are you my mother?]]

* TotemPoleTrench: With monkeys, in [[spoiler:the wedding dress, as part of Elaine's cunning plan to defeat [=LeChuck=] that Guybrush inadvertantly spoils]].

The first game in the MonkeyIsland series, ''TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'', was released in 1990. The game begins as our hero, Guybrush Threepwood, finds himself on Mêlée Island™, with one clear objective on his mind: Becoming a Mighty Pirate™. To become one, he must first pass "The Three Trials", and while doing so he learns of Elaine Marley, the local governor, and her story with the notorious ghost pirate, [=LeChuck=], who now terrorizes the waters around Mêlée Island™ together with his undead crew. After passing the trials, Guybrush finds out Elaine have been kidnapped by [=LeChuck=], and he must now set sail for [=LeChuck=]'s lair which lies on the titular Monkey Island in order to save her.

Way later in 2009, LucasArts got back in the AdventureGame business ([[AndTheFandomRejoices finally redeeming themselves in the eyes of adventure fans]]) by remaking the game, complete with voice acting by the cast of ''TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland''.

* DummiedOut: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]: There's a certain stump in the woods of Mêlée Island™ with a tunnel hidden underneath it, leading into what Guybrush describes as a system of catacombs. However, it's impossible to enter it, as the game requests the player to insert several floppy disks that didn't come with the game, and Guybrush simply concludes that the catacombs are inaccessible. Many players didn't realize this was a joke, however, a fact which is referenced in [[MonkeyIsland2 the sequel (and its 2010 Special Edition)]].

** Other [[ShoutOut shout-outs]] to the Stump Joke can be found in TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland, where you get to see the other side of the stump, as well as GrimFandango and {{Psychonauts}}, where the respective player characters both discover "a tunnel that leads into a system of catacombs".

* SpySpeak: "Excuse me, do you have a cousin named Sven?" "No, but I once had a barber named Dominique." "Close enough." Guybrush wasn't making Dominique up, as the pirate barbers in ''TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' mention that he used to be the fourth member of their quartet.

** The game originally featured a closeup of Spiffy, the dog that Guybrush can talk to in the SCUMM Bar. It was cut to save disk space, but ended up on the back of the game box, confusing the heck out of many players. In 2009, the UpdatedRerelease actually created a brand-new closeup of Spiffy for the enhanced-graphics mode.

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