Dennis Michel: Return to Monkey Island im Test - Die schönste Rückkehr des Jahres. In: GamePro. 19. September 2022 (gamepro.de [abgerufen am 25. September 2022]).
The Secret of Creating Monkey Island – An Interview With Ron Gilbert, excerpt from LucasFilm Adventurer vol. 1, number 1, Fall 1990. In: The Monkey Island SCUMM Bar. 16. Juni 2004, abgerufen am 10. Oktober 2020 (englisch): „[The POTC Ride] keeps you moving through the adventure, but I’ve always wished I could get off and wander around, learn more about the characters, and find a way onto those pirate ships. So with The Secret of Monkey Island(TM) I wanted to create a game that had the same flavor, but where you could step off the boat and enter that whole storybook world.“