Every Monkey Island game makes a decision, from moment one of gameplay, that it will do anything and everything to make you laugh and that doing so is its primary purpose for existence. I still laugh reading this list, and used to always especially laugh as a kid at Red Dye No 2, and the fact that it included SCUMM, which was Ron Gilbert's interface engine. Finally, you ask them what grog contains and they read off the list you see above on the pictured t-shirt. They are completely obsessed with their favorite drink, grog. You go to a bar early in The Secret of Monkey Island and are talking to some pirate leaders.

Monkey Island affected change in all seven of these areas. Seventh, character dialogue and interactions were highly limited. Sixth, there was often sparse music, and certainly not a rich and relatively persistent score. Fifth, most adventure games were fairly earnest and serious, not characterized by much humor. Fourth, the games were often scored, only allowing you to beat the game with perfect marks if you found all objectives and secrets. Third, you could sometimes get stuck in the game based on a decision, also having to restart or go to a save file. Second, there were often moments in the game where you could make a mistake and you would die, forcing you to restart or restore a save file. You can imagine the frustrations of such a system, as you might type forest instead of tree, or grass instead of ground, and not achieve an intended result. First, to play, you had to manually enter verbal commands into a parser, such as 'look at tree'.

Take a look at King's Quest IV above, a leading adventure game of the time. A notable part of Monkey Island's core DNA, as mentioned above, is it was designed to contrast significantly with other mainstream adventure games.

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