Hello everybody and welcome to the Cana Rince podcast, Volume 9, Issue 427. And today we're going to be talking about

the curse of Monkey Island. Joining me, Leon Cox, in issue 427, are Charlotte Cuts.

That was my best Murray impression. Good Murray. Giving good Murray. And welcome back,

Ryan Heyman. Let's face it, Leon, you're an evil, foul-smelling, vile, codependent villain,

and that's just not what I'm looking for in a podcast host right now.

Thank you very much. And returning guest, it barely seems like a couple of weeks since he was last with us.

It's Dan Clark. I've got my pirate hat on this time, so it's a different kind of vibe. It's good to know, even if we can't see it. It's a delightful one. Welcome one and all.

The Curse of Monkey Island. We covered the secret of Monkey Island back in 2015 in Kena Rince

podcast issue 192. You can find it in our back catalogue on our website.

I think that one will still be on iTunes and other places, also Spotify.

And it's only been a year and a month since we went to Scab Island and so on and so forth in Monkey Island, too, Lechuk's Revenge.

That was Kane of Rince, issue 3.71.

Dan was with us for that one.

Spoiler warning, this is a 23-year-old comedy game, but nevertheless, we shall issue a spoiler

warning because you might not want to know what happens to Guy Brush and Co.

You might be saving this one up.

Lucas Arts, of course, made Monkey Island

3. This was announced, this third game in the series, at ECTS, the European Computer

Trade Show in September 1996. Of course, Ron Gilbert, the main man behind the first two Monkey

Islands, had departed LucasArts in about

1992, and co-writer Dave Grossman joined him at Humongous Entertainment in 1994.

Tim Schaefer was still at Lucas Arts at this point, but while he does have a sort of lower ranking credit on the game,

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