Monkey Island

A classic [point and click]? adventure series from LucasArts. Monkey Island describes the misadventures of a pirate? "wanna-be" named GuyBrush Threepwood as he struggles to become the most notorious pirate in the Caribbean?, while fighting off the evil (and dead) pirate LeChuck and winning the heart of governor Elaine Marley. The Monkey Island series features the great LucasArts humor, as seen in Day of the Tentacle. Look! it's a three headed monkey!

The puzzles often seem much more difficult than they are, generally because it can be hard to warp your view of the world to adjust to a place where sword fights are actually fought with insults, where the local cannibals are trying to adjust to vegetarianism, and where the grog which is being happily drunk in the SCUMM bar dissolves away the mugs that hold it. And this is just from the first installment.

Trivia fans will want to know that SCUMM stood for "Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion". This is the computer language used to write the adventure.