I love The Curse of Monkey Island. It’s easily one of my all-time favourite games. However, there’s always been a reference in it that I’ve been missing out on until this year. When walking into Blondebeard’s Chicken Shoppe on Plunder Island, there is someone sitting at a table labelled as a “quiet patron.” This skeletal patron is wearing a button, and upon further investigation the button says “Ask me about Grim Fandango,” a reference to the “Ask me about LOOM” sales pitch conversation from the original Secret of Monkey Island. He also bears more than a passing resemblance to Grim Fandango’s protagonist, one Manuel Calavera. He also happens to have a knife embedded in his back. Until this year, I hadn’t had the opportunity to play Grim Fandango for myself, as the game has been commercially unavailable in stores for over a decade. Finally, in...