The Secret of Monkey Island
"The Secret of Monkey Island" ultimately cost $200,000 to produce, and was developed over nine months.
Elaine Marley
In "The Curse of Monkey Island", Elaine realises that Guybrush is her true love, and marries him. However, Ron Gilbert did not intend for the relationship between the characters to develop in this way, stating that Elaine "never really liked Guybrush and thought of him as more of a little brother". Gilbert was not involved in the production of "The Curse of Monkey Island"; while thinking that the new development team "did a pretty good job of capturing what "Monkey Island" was about", the relationship between Elaine and Guybrush "was the thing that bugged [Gilbert] the most about "The Curse of Monkey Island"".