I just got a gorgeously preserved boxed Monkey Island 2. While not cheap, it was far, far less than most games from the Lucasfilms studio and I consider myself extremely lucky. Finding U.S. printed versions are usually my first goal (NTSC, etc.) and this hit all the right buttons. 11 disks! Man oh man, thank you Lord Zeus for HDD installs.
When I open these I always feel a bit like an archeologist. Sometimes what you find inside is not always what you'd expect.
Take this box as an example - it came with an original receipt folded neatly inside the box! The sale was done in 1992 in what appears to have been a gift (purchased by a dude in Florida to a lady in Georgia).
Anyhoo, that's not all. Inside the box is a yellowed stack of stapled notes for the game, 95% typed (!) with hand-written notes along side some in the margins. Apparently she had created a system - alphabetical, too, by the way, of paths she tried to follow in the game (many of which she wrote "useless" next to). Fascinating, even if I don't fully follow it what she was telling herself.
Some other interesting coincidences: they said that Monkey Island was inspired heavily by the ride at Disneyland "Pirates of the Caribbean".
Well, take a look at the character Davy Jones, who appeared first in the second installment of the movie franchise. Tell me you don't see a similarity between him, and the box I am holding in my hand.