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About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank at Hothead Games, I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh myself on the puzzles and dialog.

I know this will come as a shock to many of you, but I don't spend my evenings playing through Monkey Island. It's probably been 15 years since I sat down and really played it.

Much like the experience of watching the Maniac Mansion Speed Run, it bought back a lot of memories and little tid-bits of facts, so I started keeping notes and in celebration of all things Monkey Island, I thought I'd share them.

Before we begin, a couple of points:

1) Some of this I've written about before, so I apologize if I'm wasting your time. 2) I was playing the VGA version that was released after the original EGA version. The original original version used 16 colors and the inventory was text only.
4) These are only "some-what" in order. 3) You may disagree with me on some of these, and that's