On Lucre Island, inside the swamp, you can see a crashed X-Wing there.This is a reference to Jane Austin's book Sense and Sensibility. On Lucre Island (TM), the parfume stand is entitled 'Scents and Sensibilities'.Thinking they mean the rock band, Bill and Ted reply 'Iron Maiden. This is refering to the movie Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, where they get arrested in ancient England, and the king says to send them to the iron maiden. When you are in Lucre Island jail, if you look at the iron maiden, Guybrush would say, 'Iron Maiden! Excellent!'.No need to say it is a parody on the Mortal Kombat series. Escape from Monkey Island features a mini-game (obligatory to finish the game) called 'Monkey Combat'.This is obviously referring to Manny Calavera in Grim Fandango. In the Place of Prostheses, with the machine if you enter the right code then you can get one which has the name as 'Manuel J.SCUMM is the language developed by LucasArts for creating Maniac Mansion (and then many other games), and LUA is a language developed in a Brazilian university. The SCUMM Bar and LUA Bars appearing in the game are named after two programming languages.'Gorgonzola' is a kind of cheese, while 'Gorgon' is a name of a monster in Greek mythology: whoever looks at it turns into stone. He also tells her name: Gorgon Zola Cheese. Cheese about his family, he'll eventually tell you about his aunt who was so ugly people turned to stone when looking at her. Beside being a parody on the famous traveler Marco Polo, the name also has another meaning: 'pollo' is Spanish for 'chicken'. There is a character named Marco Pollo in the game.The 'bad guy' of the game is an Australian named Ozzie Mandrill.This was probably to deter 'helpomaniacs', people who look up what to do next, and then regret they did. The walkthrough that came with the PC version was written entirely in bright blue ink, screenshots and all. However, not much detail was put into it, and no secrets were revealed (both to try and persuade the player to buy the full strategy guide). The PC version came with a 'quick-path' walkthrough that explained how to beat the entire game. Escape from Monkey Island emulates the controls of Alone in the Dark right down to double-tapping the up arrow to run according to its manual and readme, this was in Grim Fandango as well, but was removed at the last minute.

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