Why Return to Monkey Island's Announcement Is A Big Deal

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For almost a decade now, the Monkey Island franchise has been considered dead, with its original developer LucasArts shutting down in 2012 after Disney acquired LucasFilm for $4.05 billion. Since then, it's seemed that LucasArts' classic titles like Monkey Island would be forever gone, outside of the surprising remasters of Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, and Full Throttle from ex-LucasArts developers at Double Fine Productions.

That all changed this week however when Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert revealed that his development studio Terrible Toybox has been secretly making a new Monkey Island for two years. Return to Monkey Island, the long anticipated next entry in the beloved adventure game series, has finally been revealed as a collaboration between Terrible Toybox, Devolver Digital, and LucasFilm Games. As the Monkey Island series has taken an extended hiatus, it can be hard for those unfamiliar with the series to grasp why Return to Monkey Island's announcement is a big deal.

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The Monkey Island series was launched in 1990 with the very first game in the series, The Secret of Monkey Island; an endlessly charming and witty point-and-click adventure game centered around a starry eyed wannabe pirate named Guybrush Threepwood. The game was developed by LucasArts (then known as LucasFilm Games), and it stemmed from an initiative at the studio from founder George Lucas to avoid developing games based on the studio's iconic filmography. Beyond Star Wars, LucasFilm developed many now beloved Indiana Jones games in this period.

After The Secret of Monkey Island quickly found success, LucasFilm Games immediately got to work on a sequel, Monkey