The Secret of Monkey Island is a humorous point & click adventure game, with ingenious puzzles, branching dialogs and a cinematic narrative style. With this game you don't fight with reflexes, but solve puzzles, talk to eccentric characters and combine inventory items.
The story takes place in the fictional Caribbean of the "Golden Age of Piracy", on islands full of quirky characters and memorable settings, such as:
You must control Guybrush Threepwood, a naive but stubborn young man whose dream is to become a great pirate. Guybrush is clumsy, innocent and rather ridiculous, but also witty at key moments. Unlike many adventures of the time, there was no chance of "dying" or getting stuck forever, so keep that in mind when playing the game.
The story of The Secret of Monkey Island is as follows:
Guybrush Threepwood arrives at Mêlée Island with a single dream: to become a pirate. To achieve it, he must overcome three trials, but on the way he meets the governor Elaine Marley and falls in love with her.
The peace of the island is interrupted by the return of LeChuck, a ghost pirate obsessed with Elaine, who kidnaps her and takes her to the mysterious Monkey Island™.
Determined to rescue her, Guybrush gets a ship and travels to the island, where he goes through comical entanglements with cannibals and absurd traps until he stumbles upon LeChuck's hideout.
The climax comes when Guybrush returns to Mêlée Island to prevent the wedding between Elaine and the ghost pirate. With a lot of clumsiness but more luck than talent, he manages to defeat LeChuck and save her.
The adventure ends with Elaine acknowledging Guybrush's bravery, though making it clear that she was never a "helpless damsel," and that the hero perhaps needed her more than the other way around.
Who created The Secret of Monkey Island?
Lucasfilm Games (now LucasArts) developed this adventure game in 1990 for Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS and later it was adapted to many more. They used SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion), used in several Lucasfilm adventure games.