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    THE CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND

    Jun 18, 2019 4 minutes
    By Malindy Hetfeld

    NEED TO KNOW

    RELEASED November 1, 1997

    PUBLISHER LucasArts

    DEVELOPER Inhouse

    LINK bit.ly/2PfNdYj

    “Characters that are essentially useless props still have detailed, fun stories to tell.”

    The first PC game I ever played was Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge, which was included in a magazine. Because I was a kid, I lost it or scratched it as well the set of floppy disks I ended up playing the first Monkey Island on, forcing me to eventually buy a bundle of both games. That bundle, called Monkey Island Bounty Pack came with a demo of The Curse of Monkey Island. The year was 1997, and I had just found the game that would likely accompany me forever

    Childhoods are filled with weird compulsions.

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