The Secret of Monkey Island
"The Secret of Monkey Island" ultimately cost $200,000 to produce, and was developed over nine months.
The Secret of Monkey Island
"The Secret of Monkey Island" has featured regularly in lists of "top" games, such as "Computer Gaming World's" Hall of Fame and IGN's Video Game Hall of Fame. In 1991, "PC Format" placed "The Secret of Monkey Island" on its list of the 50 best computer games of all time, calling it "genuinely funny". In 1996, "Computer Gaming World" ranked it as the 19th best game of all time, writing, "Who could ever forget the insult-driven duel system or the identity of the mysterious Swordmaster?". In 2004, readers of "Retro Gamer" voted it as the 33rd top retro game. IGN named "The Secret of Monkey Island" one of the ten best LucasArts adventure games in 2009, and ranked the Xbox Live Arcade version as the 20th best title of all time for that platform in 2010. In 2017, "The Secret of Monkey Island" ranked 78th in the "Scientifically Proven Best Video Games of All Time," a statistical meta-analysis compiled by Warp Zoned of 44 "top games" lists published between 1995 and 2016.