Monkey Island : The Lost Years

If you have never played a Monkey Island game, then you haven't lived. I suggest you search out all four classics right away. For those of you that know the joy that is The Secret of Monkey Island you will probably be interested to know that some fans are working on a very exciting looking project know as Monkey Island : The Lost Years. I'll let the creators blurb explain more -

"MI -TLY is a non-commercial Monkey Island - inspired game, using all original art and music. This game is not intended to be "the next Monkey Island". Instead, we break off from the official series and go our own way. Untill Lucasarts sees the light and starts working on the official sequel(s), we hope this game will keep some of the MANY MI-fans out there interested in the series."

Looks pretty promising to me, head over to the site and check out it's progress.

There is also a second Monkey Island fan game know as The darkness of Monkey Island, but as all the information seems to be in (EDIT) Italian I don't know much about it. Looks great though.

On a side note there is a great looking Indiana Jones fan made game in the works. Head over to the site out check out the playable demo.

I think all of them are being made with Chris Jones' amazing Adventure game Studio.

It's great to see the classic adventure games being kept alive by these very talented fans. There was also a fan made complete graphical overhaul of the classic Maniac Mansion released a while ago. Great work folks!