Product Description

Follow the hapless hero Guybrush Threepwood through his first three adventures on Monkey Island: The Secret of Monkey Island, LeChuck's Revenge: Monkey Island 2, and Curse of Monkey Island.

Regarded as not just the best graphic adventures of all time but also the funniest this high value pack includes the original two games in the series and the newer Curse of Monkey Island.

In this Guybrush Threepwood once again takes up dull blade and rapier wit against the nefarious demon pirate LeChuck. Guybrush must save his one true love, Elaine Marley, from turning into the evil pirate's zombie bride. However, hoping to marry Elaine himself, Guybrush unknowingly slips a cursed ring onto her finger, transforming her into a gold statue. He must then find a way to change Elaine back to her beautiful self and stop LeChuck from carrying out his sinister plans. Aye, 'tis a rollicking adventure that is sure to challenge the mind and shiver a few timbers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9834 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Lucas Arts
• Platform: Windows 95

Customer Reviews

Go retro, and enjoy some truly classic computer gaming!
The 'point-and-click' adventure game seems, sadly, all but dead now, but once they were the biggest thing in the gaming world. In the heyday of the genre, LucasArts was without a doubt the leader of the pack, and Monkey Island 1 & 2 were their crowning achievements. These are games that pretty much made everyone who played them get caught up in their piratey world, fall in love with the characters, and become haunted by the insanely catchy theme music.

Other reviews have outlined the basic premises, but suffice to say, you should play these games in order. The few references to past events that occur won't be lost on you, and it's quite satisfying to play it out as a saga.

'The Secret Of Monkey Island' is just essential gaming, its enchanting, addictive, often hilarious, and very satisfying.

But 'Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge' is probably the finest of the series - like 'The Godfather Part II' impossibly managing to expand on the greatness of the original and make it better in every way. Brimming with humour and a truly gripping storyline involving voodoo and treasure maps, it also has the best score for a computer game ever (as well as the awesome main theme and villain theme, you get oodles more great tunes as you explore the game, which is a pure joy).

'The Curse Of Monkey Island' was much-maligned upon release, many bemoaned creator Ron Gilbert's absence from the project, and a slightly awkward explanation for the second game's controversial ending. But unlike 'The Godfather Part III', to continue the gangster movie parallels (sorry if this is lost on you), this is more essential adventuring. A great orchestral score and full voice acting gives the game a new lease of life, the splendid new cartoony style fits perfectly, and whilst the plot is slightly less compelling and original than the previous games, it certainly has its moments, and its fair share of glorious characters.

In summary, you can't afford NOT to give these games a chance. They're much-revered classics, definitely some of the best of their genre, and who doesn't love pirates? Nobody, that's who.

How appropriate. You fight like a cow.
The 'Monkey Island' serious is the single most influential adventure game series in the known Universe. It began life as an idea inside Ron Gilberts head as he rode upon Disney's Pirates of the Carribean ride, and it still lives today.

You meet a naive, wannabe swashbuckler with the rather strange name of Guybrush Threepwood, and you journey with him, from island to island, hurling witty insults towards other pirates as you swordfight, gathering crew members with talking tatoos, and rescuing the love of your life from scurvy ghost pirates.

With some entertaining stories, hilarious dialogue, highly flawed characters, excellent puzzles, and the greatest music ever, these three games should be owned by anyone who has a curious brain and a need to be satisfied.

Classics!!!
Monkey Island was my favourite game when I was a kid and this set is a must buy:

The Secret of Monkey Island: we meet wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood who must undergo three trials to become a pirate but then the evil pirate Lechuck kidnaps Governor Marley who Guybrush falls in love with, great hilarity ensues with fab one liners in-jokes, insult sword fighting and puzzles that aren’t to easy or difficult.
The game will take you about 20 hours the first time round but if you know exactly what your doing or use a solution it can be done in under three hours! The game uses the famous SCUMM engine where you put together various verbs to create sentences that will make Guybrush carry that sentence out eg: give pieces of eight to Man.
Overall great game 5/5

Monkey Island 2: Lechucks Revenge: is harder, and even more hilarious than the first. This time Guybrush is looking for the treasure of Big Whoop but accidentally resurrects the Ghost Pirate Lechuck in the process in the form of a zombie this time.
It uses the same interface as the original, just longer and more challenging.
This one gets 5/5 as well.

The graphics and sound are dated in the first two but its all right for 1990/1 and this version of “Secret” has a CD soundtrack – great music.

The curse of Monkey island: This one sees Guybrush proposing to Governor Marley but unfortunately gives her a cursed ring and she turns to gold – as if that wasn’t bad enough she gets stolen, and Lechuck has once again been resurrected, this time as a Demon. The SCUMM interface has been jacked in favour of full screen animation with an interface where you hold down the cursor on “hotspots” and choose “pick up” “talk” “use” etc.
This isn’t quite as good as the first two, it’s still funny but missing something, maybe I just prefer the classics – 4/5.

Overall a masterpiece in gaming – if by some chance you haven’t played these games yet – do it know!