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Monkey Island 2: Into the Weeds of What Could Have Been The Missing Library Books
Start digging through the demo’s resource files, and you’ll find a bunch of library books that were left out from the final game. To wit, alongside Guybrush's comments:
BAOOOGA: A Difinative Guide to Cartoon Noises
Wait... I've heard this before...
Clean Sheets
Poetry By Pirates
This is some of the worst poetry I've ever read.
Crash! True Life Stories of Game Testers
By The Pit Crew
Dancing Skeltons and Other Hallucinations
Usually, dreaming of dancing skeletons is linked to premonitions of future events...
Hmmm...
Desire's Distasteful Denoument
By Elaine Marley
Dumb!
Dianetics by L. Ron Gilbert
Who does this guy think he is, anyway?
Diseases You Can Get From Your Parrot
Gross.
Falstein's Treasury of Treasure
Not quite what I'm looking for.
Friend or Foe?
Governor Phatt's Face Workout
Fitness While Feasting
Gross.
Grammy Award Winners of the Renaissance Period
Grave Robbing: The Greatest Sin of Them All
I had no idea...
How to Serve Man
By Lemonhead
Yum!
How to Test Games on One Egg Per Day
I think it only works during the summer.
Infatuation's Infinite Insolence
By Elaine Marley
Ick!
Inky Island: Unclaimed Bonanza or Myth?
This is fascinating!
It says here there were four pirates:
Rapp Scallion (the cook)...
... Young Lindy (the cabin boy)...
... Mister Rogers (the first mate)...
... and Captain-- Good Heavens!
Captain Marley!
(Wonder if there's any relation?)
They buried their treasure along with plenty of--
-- uh, oh--
--booby traps on a place believed to be called Inky Island.
They made a map which they divided into four pieces, each man taking one.
All four pirates have since disappeared!
The aforementioned book was renamed Big Whoop: Unclaimed Bonanza Or Myth? in the final game. It also included information about the four pirates.
Long Lost Treasures
Not quite what I'm looking for.
Loose Cannon: The Life of T. Bratcher
Wow...
Who is this guy, anyway?
Love's Lingering Lastitude
By Elaine Marley
Truly disgusting.
Methodology and Practice
Not So Much As A Dubloon
Pirate Captains and Their Ships
Captain Hazelwood: The Valdez
Captain Fitzhuge: The Mad Monkey
Pirates Who Love to Much
Play Winning Checkers
Y'know, I like checkers. It's just plain fun, y'know? Good ol' family fun.
Read This Book, Everyone Else Already Has
Now I feel like one of the crowd.
Romances Wreched Residue
By Elaine Marley
Ridiculous!
Subtraction: Addition's Tricky Partener
I can't really grasp this concept.
Tattoos of the Great Pirates
VOLUME ONE: THE ARM
Impressive...
... but...
... painful.
Tattoos: Cure for Baldness or Ego-stoker?
And a nifty tattoo it is.
Tattoos: Why Chicks Dig Them
Hmm... Maybe I should get one.
Tattoos-Related Skin Infections
Hmm... Maybe I shouldn't get one.
The Sinister and Extremely Exil Shodowbeast
Hmm... Good bedtime reading...
You Can Pirate Too
Most of the library titles were written by Dave Grossman and Jo “Captain Tripps” Ashburn. Check out the Special Edition commentary track for more.