Monkey Island games. In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time.

While a student in 1983, he co-wrote Graphics BASIC, and he then worked on action games for HESware, which went out of business. He afterwards joined Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts), and was given the opportunity to develop his own games. He invented SCUMM,