I saw my big bro playing Secret of Monkey Island. I must've been like 9 or 10. Shortly afterwards, I played through it using a walkthrough (they used to print these in gaming mags). I'm not sure what exactly appealed to me...the beatiful graphics? I probably understood nothing of the humor, or even very little of the language back then. For some reason though, I was hooked. Must be, as Jake had mentioned in a different thread, the way it reminded me of cartoons (which are another way I started learning English early on)
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By no rocket’s blue shade am no shells dead down there,
Gave no proof all day long that the flag was unwhere!
No say does am spar-strangled shroud hang limply!
Under land of no free! Am us home coward-leeee!
~Excerpt from the Bizarro Anthem
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