Monkey Island

Video game fandom
Name	Monkey Island
Developer(s)	LucasArts (1990–2010) Telltale Games (2009) Terrible Toybox (2022)
Publisher(s)	LucasArts (1990–2010) Devolver Digital (2022)
Release date	The Secret of Monkey Island (1990) [other games...] Return to Monkey Island (2022)
Genre(s)	Adventure
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Monkey Island is a video game franchise. The first game, The Secret of Monkey Island was published in 1990 and there has been an active fandom since then.

Fandom

Small but active since the 1990s.

Example Fanworks

Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples.

Fanart

• I got into Monkey Island recently, ^{Archived version} by pencilcomics, 2024 -- fanart of several characters
• untitled fanart for several "80s" video games, including Monkey Island. Uncredited artist
• An attempt at drawing Guybrush in the psychonauts style, ^{Archived version} by tooncooro, 2025

Fanfic

• The Three Adventurers

Meta

• It’s really funny that MI2 predicted Guybrush as obnoxiously stuck in the past, clinging to iconic moments and places that made him famous until everyone got bored with him completely, only for the franchise to become exactly that after Tales., ^{Archived version} by flurrin, 2025
• the problem with monkey island 3 (the best one) is that it's so insanely hard that it's only fun if you've played it 3 or 4 times, post by intercal with response by the-grey-tribe, 2025

Other

• guybrush threepwood moodboard 2 by computerspeech, 2024
• Huh, i guess the ?minor? meme "Never pay moree than 46 bucks and 9 cents for a computer game" is from Monkey Island
• monkey island + textposts -- a meme/edit format popular on tumblr. posted by arcanetrivia, 2025

Links

• Wikipedia:Monkey Island
• #monkey island on Tumblr
• Monkey Island (Video Games) works on AO3
• The Secret of Monkey Island on All The Tropes