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I probably would have loved this game series. I couldn't play very long because I found the constant ™ after words intrusive and definitely an impediment to immersion.

I can't be the only one.

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It's a joke that probably made a lot more sense in the 90s. Back then people would use ™ everywhere, in logos, whenever certain brands were mentioned, etc.

In my opinion it fits the general humor of the game perfectly, but I can definitely see how it would could be annoying.

Wow, that was a joke? Did everyone but me just 'get' that, or was it a meme at the time (discussed regularly in forums) and I just wasn't in on it?

But still annoying.

I was nineteen when the game came out and I got that joke. It's an important part of selling the broader joke that the world of Monkey Island is probably more of a pirate-themed amusement park, owned by a faceless corporation, than it is an actual world.

Interesting, thanks.

Just to weight in here, I completely got that also. I probably would have played somewhere in the mid-90s, when I was ~11-13.

As far as I knew, forums didn't even exist at the time (Of course, there probably were forums, and of course mailing lists and usenet were around before that, but I didn't know about them). It really just fit the humour style of the game, not taking itself too seriously. To be honest, it was far from the funniest joke in the game.

It was definitely a joke and it was in line with the humor of the game. The game broke the fourth wall all the time. One of the characters told you to buy the game Loom. The troll on the bridge was George Lucas with a troll mask on. They had a ton of anachronistic elements like soda vending machines in the age of piracy. At the end of the game Guybrush reveals that he learned to never pay more than 20 bucks for a video game.

You f̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ talk like a dairy Farmer! ™

You are the Only One™.

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