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... the critically acclaimed The Secret of Monkey Island (1990), helped Lucasfilm Games build a reputation as one of the leading developers in the genre ... the heyday for the company's adventure fame, with classic titles such as Monkey Island 2 LeChuck's Revenge (1991), Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992 ... LucasArts still managed to release moderately commercially successful titles The Curse of Monkey Island (1997) was the last LucasArts adventure game to retain ...
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“People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
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—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)