The Secret of Monkey Island - Legacy

Legacy

The Secret of Monkey Island spawned four sequels. The first, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, was released in 1991 and focuses on LeChuck's return. Six years later, LucasArts released The Curse of Monkey Island, which features a new visual design. In 2000, the company released Escape from Monkey Island, which uses the GrimE engine of Grim Fandango to produce 3D graphics. The next title, Tales of Monkey Island released in 2009, is a series of five episodic chapters.

Elements of the game have appeared elsewhere in popular culture. In 2005, student Chris Heady wrote, directed, and produced a live stage version of The Secret of Monkey Island at Hammond High School in Columbia, Maryland. LucasArts licensed the play for a year, but stipulated that the script be used for nonprofit purposes and could not be distributed outside cast and crew. The adaptation resulted in Guinness World Records awarding the game a record for the "first graphic adventure to become a stage play". Also, the original version was selected as one of five for the exhibition The Art of Video Games in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2011.

A fictional drink recipe in the game for grog was mistakenly reported as real in 2009 by Argentinian news channel C5N, which urged teenagers not to consume the dangerous Grog XD drink. In Tales of Monkey Island, Guybrush refers to this news story while pushing the Grog XD button on a Grog machine.