And we weren't the only enthusiastic nerds to gush over it - YouTube and Reddit also lit up with fan discussion. So, when news that the original creators, Dave Grossman and Ron Gilbert, had teamed up to make Return to Monkey Island, my brother was the first to text me. Guybrush Threepwood's iconic opening line in 1990's 'The Secret of Monkey Island,' the first game in the series. It also drew me closer to my older brother, who steered me through Curse and convinced me to play the earlier titles, The Secret of Monkey Island and LeChuck's Revenge. Its animation wowed me, from the ludicrous designs to the van Gogh clouds that flitted over fictional Caribbean islands. I was too young to grasp the witty writing, let alone solve the famously deranged puzzles.īut there's something ingenious about 1997's The Curse of Monkey Island, the third game in the series and the first I encountered. I'm not exactly sure what drew me to the Monkey Island series. This year's Return to Monkey Island gave me, and legions of fans like me, another chance to put on a pirate costume and relive his story - even if it wasn't everything we expected. But one swashbuckler haunts me: Guybrush Threepwood, the bumbling hero of the Monkey Island games.

I'm prone to seasickness and haven't been on navigable waters in years. The intrepid Guybrush Threepwood (right), disguised as a zombie, beside his nemesis, LeChuck in 2022's 'Return to Monkey Island.'

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