Trivia
In the German gaming magazine PC Player (issue 01/2001) Escape from Monkey Island was named as "Best Adventure in 2000".
MI:4 was developed with the GRIM engine. The GRIM engine was coded for Grim Fandango. Unlike previous Monkey Island games, MI:4 used 3d rendered characters instead of utilizing the traditional 2d drawn animation.
Contributed by
Santa 
(847) on Sep 04, 2005.
Monkey 4 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.
On Lucre Island, inside the swamp, you can see a crashed X-Wing there.
Contributed by
Xoleras (66964) on Jun 03, 2004.
On Melee Island (TM), if you ask I. Cheese about his family, he'll eventually tell you about his aunt who was so ugly people turned to stone when looking at her. He also tells her name: Gorgon Zola Cheese. "Gorgonzola" is a kind of cheese, while "Gorgon" is a name of a monster in Greek mythology: whoever looks at it turns into stone.
On Lucre Island (TM), the parfume stand is entitled "Scents and Sensibilities". This is a reference to Jane Austin's book "Sense and Sensibility".
When you are in Lucre Island jail, if you look at the iron maiden, Guybrush would say, "Iron Maiden! Excellent!"
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. Thinking they mean the rock band, Bill and Ted reply "Iron Maiden. Excellent!" then play the air guitar.
There is a character named Marco Pollo in the game. Beside being a parody on the famous traveler Marco Polo, the name also has another meaning: "pollo" is Spanish for "chicken".
A huge amount of characters from previous Monkey Island games make their appearances here: Carla, Otis, Murray the Skull, Stan, Meathook, just to name a few. There are many more, but to name some of them would be kind of a spoiler.
"Escape from Monkey Island" features a mini-game (obligatory to finish the game) called "Monkey Combat". No need to say it is a parody on Mortal Kombat series.
The "bad guy" of the game is an Australian named Ozzie Mandrill. A mandrill is a kind of a monkey.. :)
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. Calaverus'. This is obviously referring to Manny Calavera in Grim Fandango.
The walkthrough that came with the PC version was written entirely in bright blue ink, screenshots and all. This was probably to deter "helpomaniacs", people who look up what to do next, and then regret they did.
The PC version came with a "quick-path" walkthrough that explained how to beat the entire game. However, not much detail was put into it, and no secrets were revealed (both persons to try and persuade the player to buy the full strategy guide).
The SCUMM Bar and LUA Bars appearing in the game are named after two programming languages. 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.
Contributed by
Jiguryo (36) on Oct 18, 2001.
There is a list of funny easter eggs for MI4 at http://www.worldofmi.com/features/funny/mi4in/mi4in.shtml
The game is designed by Sean Clark and Michael Stemmle who previously worked together as co-designers of Sam & Max Hit the Road.
