The Secret of Monkey Island is a re-imagining of the classic adventure game with all new art, new sound ... comatose), and Monkey Island—even on the iPhone—does little to revive it.

"Monkey Island 1 and 2 weren't pixel art games. They were games using state-of-the-art tech and art," he said. "If I had stayed and done Monkey Island 3 it wouldn't have looked like Monkey Island 2.