In case you’ve never played them, the Monkey Island games are “Point And Click” adventure games. That is, you have your character (a wannabe pirate named Guybrush Threepwood) on the screen, and use your mouse cursor to highlight objects or characters on the screen to interact with. The interface in the first two games is what is known as the “Classic” interface. You have the main game screen in the top two thirds of the screen, while in the bottom third are your inventory and various commands - such as “Walk to”, Talk to”, “Push”, “Use”, “Give”, etc. You click on one of these and then an object or character, or place on the screen. When you talk to a character, you get a list of possible lines to say – some parts of conversations will happen automatically (as will some of the action – known as “cut scenes”, these progress the plot, often by showing you what is happening somewhere else in the game-world, without user intervention).