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Labyrinth joins the Lucas adventures
Before Maniac Mansion, a cinema door already led into Lucasfilm adventures: Jareth’s labyrinth, between words, pictures and puzzles.
A milestone
Guybrush hosts The Crew’s Trials
Questions, images and riddles across Monkey Island, Lucas adventures and other routes. Choose games, difficulty and length; three lifelines, no elimination and a pirate diploma.
654 · The crew’s question deck
The Crew’s Hall of Fame → Only rounds with identical games, difficulty, length and image/riddle options are compared. Correct answers earn one point; aids are disclosed without deductions. Equal scores share a rank; speed does not count. Each completed round can be published once; a name may appear more than once.
The quiz now awards personalized illustrated keepsakes: 17 images across five tiers, with pirate name and issue number, downloadable as PNG or PDF after Hall registration.
Two challenges for the crew: Test your wit and memory: enter the quiz studio or follow clues hidden across the site.
Two new Museum rooms: playing objects and the pirates’ web
A voyage could begin before the screen: opening a box, reading a manual, inserting a disk. Objects preserved in the collection also tell us how players prepared to enter the Caribbean.
The historic homepage leads into the logo transformation: today’s site emerges before only the new emblem remains. →
Small surprises from the games join the video room
The clip featuring Otis and Fester Shinetop now plays directly in the site’s player, without visiting Facebook. All other screening-room routes remain available.
Short videos, openings, full playthroughs, fan films and retrospectives now have clear routes in the screening room, with every contribution and historic link preserved.
The press tells the story of Monkey Island
A new collection of reviews, previews and behind-the-scenes reports with enlarged scans, from The Games Machine and PC Gamer to Japanese coverage.
Previews, reviews and advertisements show how Monkey Island reached magazine readers. · Previews → Reviews → Advertisements
Waiting for Monkey Island 4 · 1999–2000 Diary
From early announcements to screenshots, trailers and the Italian release: Escape as anticipated by this site at the time.
The archipelago, between memories and aerial views
Information about Mêlée, Scabb and Phatt is brought together in their respective Archipelago entries. The first eight illustrated aerial views now accompany the original game images.
An important moment
The Cutting Room opens
Thirteen files explore abandoned ideas, recovered material and alternative versions. Sources, filters, reading stamps, original illustrations and game-by-game spoiler access.
Enter the room →New images join the crew gallery
Ten illustrated homages join the nine preserved historical contributions. The imaginative reconstructions are clearly identified; technique, signature and dedication filters and chronological sorting help explore the collection. Each card also opens the file at its actual resolution.
Walkthroughs find two new ports
The Chest now has two dedicated collections: six Monkey Island games and ten Lucas adventures. Cards link directly to Italian PDFs, original archives and available saved games, with edition details.
Temple of Doom joins the fan games
The collection now includes the BBGames fangame, with a link to the creator’s page and its listed platforms and languages. A nine-verb pixel-art adventure inspired by the film.
The crew’s stories are now open for reading
Four dedicated pages let you read the works without downloading ZIP files. Authors, publication dates and new illustrations accompany the stories. The Monkey 4 proposals retain the context of waiting for the fourth game.
Stories and writing →Playing tools, from computers to phones
Playing Tools brings together software, stores and platforms with screenshots and direct links: Steam, GOG, itch.io, the App Store and Google Play join tools for Amiga and Atari ST adventures. ScummVM has an internal getting-started guide and official links as well as direct access; ScummRev retains its historical download.
A compass for words: Search aboard arrives
Internal search is available throughout the site, with live suggestions, language selection, pages and PDFs. Protected dossiers and walkthroughs do not reveal answers in suggestions.
Try Search aboard →A map to navigate every route
The home page leads to the site’s archipelago: five islands and a ship open grouped links, with popovers on computers and panels on phones. Below the illustration, All Routes provides a filterable page list. Opening indexes in the Saga, Lucas Adventures, Treasure Chest, Community and Museum also lead directly to their sections.
How and where to play Monkey Island
A guide to choosing editions, finding used physical copies and launching each chapter. Every saga page also has a dedicated section covering languages, compatibility and Tales on the anniversary USB.
Open the guide →Classics and New Routes: 108 adventures to discover
The catalogues bring together 80 classics and 25 modern adventures: 92 new profiles join the 16 existing Saga and Lucas pages. Screenshots and game-profile links open the details. Mood, platform and availability filters, chronological sorting, edition information and used physical copies help you choose.
Personal lists can be cleared, printed or saved as PDF, exported as text and prepared for email. Remasters remain associated with the original adventure; Tales and Return appear in New Routes.
The Rome: Pathway to Power entry now includes its alternative title Rome A.D. 92, a distinction between adventure and strategy, and guidance for DOS and Amiga versions. Screenshots and the profile still point to the same adventure, without duplicating the catalogue.
Revised 25 October: the three Telltale Sam & Max seasons now have profiles for Save the World, Beyond Time and Space and The Devil’s Playhouse. Remasters remain with their original seasons; Hit the Road stays in Classics. The catalogues now include 108 games: 80 Classics and 28 New Routes.
Updated 25 October 2026: introductions and descriptions explain the editorial boundary through 2004 / from 2005, with links between the catalogues. Reissues and remasters always follow the original adventure.
The Treasure Chest brings together pictures, music and small treasures
Posters, GIFs, albums, music and sounds, MIDI, themes and arrangements have coordinated routes in the Treasure Chest. Music collections and mobile treasures gain dedicated illustrations while keeping their links. Walkthroughs, saves and playing tools have clear entrances; videos remain in the Community.
The treasure chest · Music and sounds → · Mobile treasures →
The guestbook brings old and new greetings together
Recovered historical messages and new greetings share the guestbook’s chronology. In Community it sits alongside the passport, journal and social crew. Fan drawings, stories, recognition and articles have also received renewed presentations.
Explore the Saga through places, characters and background stories
The Saga brings together journeys and emotions, Caribbean faces, pirate life and background stories. Guybrush, Elaine and LeChuck have dedicated pages with phone-friendly Evolution displays; the biographies add encounters, portraits and descriptions. The archipelago, plot, curiosities and piracy history accompany the visit.
The saga · Character biographies →
Updated 25 October 2026: all six game profiles expand with exploration, direction and character insights, a detail to observe and links to the site’s related materials. Story and ending have separate spoiler warnings and openings; images, credits, walkthroughs and saves remain available.
The Saga menu now displays nine logos on transparent backgrounds, preserving their proportions in consistent spaces. Covers remain on the game pages; the small Monkey Madness logo has been reconstructed from the original reference to improve readability.
Added Fester Shinetop’s biography, with his portrait and a link to the video about the conversations with Otis. His identity is revealed inside a spoiler that starts closed. Fester Shinetop →
Six saga profiles now use the covers supplied by the webmaster. Special Edition Collection has a separate feature in the second Special Edition profile: the box contains both games.