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For those of you who are looking for some context, and have an hour to spare, Ahoy made a great documentary on YouTube about ‘The Secret of Monkey Island’ that

For those of you who are looking for some context, and have an hour to spare, Ahoy made a great documentary on YouTube about ‘The Secret of Monkey Island’ that touches on this topic. [0] The source material linked in this thread looks to be more authoritative than the video, and if I remember correctly the video even gets this detail of the story wrong, but sometimes it’s nice to know the story around the story. [0] https://youtu.be/9F9ahZQ7oP0 https://youtu.be/9F9ahZQ7oP0

andi999 6y ago
Does it reveal the secret :-)
- bstar77 6y ago
  We will only know the secret if Gilbert gets the rights to make another Monkey Island game.
  - TimSchumann 6y ago
    One can hope.
    - andi999 6y ago
      Actually I think the secret is probably a total let down. The MI games are (potty) humour kids games (which nobody in my country due to lack of language skills realized, and it felt much more mature and cooler than it was intended)
      - bstar77 6y ago
        I think the secret is likely tied to MI2. The ending of that game is very cryptic and more adult oriented in nature.
        andi999 6y ago
        Well it is all theme park style (not too surprising since it was inspired by the pirates of the caribbean ride). MI1 : map seller, MI2: parents picking up the kids, alleyway like the alleys in MI1
- dividuum 6y ago
  The closest we ever got was in a recent stream with Ron Gilbert himself (from https://gamehistory.org/monkeyisland/ https://gamehistory.org/monkeyisland/). Jump to 4:29:23. If only there wasn't a cutscene :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikaqus5_QIg&t=269m23s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikaqus5_QIg&t=269m23s
  - andi999 6y ago
    This sounds silly but what does it say (am in a restricted environment for the next few hours...)
    - dividuum 6y ago
      The stream is Ron Gilbert being interviewed about various fun trivia for Monkey Island and its development. While they do that, they show four cutscenes (one per map piece for MI2) that didn't end up in the final product due to size limitations. Also during the stream he describes that those scenes originally popped up randomly during game play but they change it to only happen when you exit a room. So they randomly played those cutscenes during the stream and the one I linked ends and the stream switches back to the interview with the interviewer saying: "... so that's pretty interesting that this would be the secret" :-)
    - WorldMaker 6y ago
      The interviewer was making a joke by abruptly cutting to alternate versions of the Monkey Island 2 "interrupting" cut scenes and Ron was playing along with the joke by implying that their conversation continued during the interrupting cutscene by coming back out of the cutscene's with garbled mid-conversation, one of which was essentially "...and now you know the secret" as if it was given away during the cutscene. (It likely was not, as again, Ron and the interviewer eventually made it clear the gag was a gag. Even if it were, it didn't make it to the stream.)
  - TimSchumann 6y ago
    Thanks for this, hadn't seen it yet. These games were such a huge part of my childhood, it's great to learn more about the people behind them and the process of creation.

andi999 6y ago

Does it reveal the secret :-)

bstar77 6y ago
We will only know the secret if Gilbert gets the rights to make another Monkey Island game.
- TimSchumann 6y ago
  One can hope.
  - andi999 6y ago
    Actually I think the secret is probably a total let down. The MI games are (potty) humour kids games (which nobody in my country due to lack of language skills realized, and it felt much more mature and cooler than it was intended)
    - bstar77 6y ago
      I think the secret is likely tied to MI2. The ending of that game is very cryptic and more adult oriented in nature.
      - andi999 6y ago
        Well it is all theme park style (not too surprising since it was inspired by the pirates of the caribbean ride). MI1 : map seller, MI2: parents picking up the kids, alleyway like the alleys in MI1
dividuum 6y ago
The closest we ever got was in a recent stream with Ron Gilbert himself (from https://gamehistory.org/monkeyisland/ https://gamehistory.org/monkeyisland/). Jump to 4:29:23. If only there wasn't a cutscene :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikaqus5_QIg&t=269m23s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikaqus5_QIg&t=269m23s
- andi999 6y ago
  This sounds silly but what does it say (am in a restricted environment for the next few hours...)
  - dividuum 6y ago
    The stream is Ron Gilbert being interviewed about various fun trivia for Monkey Island and its development. While they do that, they show four cutscenes (one per map piece for MI2) that didn't end up in the final product due to size limitations. Also during the stream he describes that those scenes originally popped up randomly during game play but they change it to only happen when you exit a room. So they randomly played those cutscenes during the stream and the one I linked ends and the stream switches back to the interview with the interviewer saying: "... so that's pretty interesting that this would be the secret" :-)
  - WorldMaker 6y ago
    The interviewer was making a joke by abruptly cutting to alternate versions of the Monkey Island 2 "interrupting" cut scenes and Ron was playing along with the joke by implying that their conversation continued during the interrupting cutscene by coming back out of the cutscene's with garbled mid-conversation, one of which was essentially "...and now you know the secret" as if it was given away during the cutscene. (It likely was not, as again, Ron and the interviewer eventually made it clear the gag was a gag. Even if it were, it didn't make it to the stream.)
- TimSchumann 6y ago
  Thanks for this, hadn't seen it yet. These games were such a huge part of my childhood, it's great to learn more about the people behind them and the process of creation.