
Dominic Armato, voice of Guybrush Threepwood, has always loved LucasArts' adventure games, but there's one he still can't get into: 'I get 10 minutes in and I'm like, oh, this is tedious, man'
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Dominic Armato is adventure game royalty, but an early adventure game experience almost killed his enthusiasm for videogames: "The one that really sticks in my head is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," he says. "It was just evil. I was a kid, and I'm trying to play this game that's one of the most difficult text adventure games ever written … It's not a happy memory. It's a miracle that I stuck with videogames at all."
Yet persist with games Armato did, becoming an avid fan of the point 'n' click adventures designed by LucasArts. This led Armato to audition for and be cast as mighty pirate Guybrush Threepwood for 1997's The Curse of Monkey Island. …
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