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| Born | November 18, 1976 Melrose Park, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Voice actor, journalist and food critic |
| Years active | 1990–present |
Dominic Armato (born November 18, 1976) [1] is an American voice actor, journalist and food critic. He is best known for his work on LucasArts games. His most famous role is the voice of the pirate Guybrush Threepwood in the Monkey Island series. [2]
Armato was a fan of the 1990s adventure games by LucasArts, such as the first two Monkey Island games. He joked with a friend that his ideal role would be to voice the Monkey Island protagonist, the pirate Guybrush Threepwood. Two months later, he was cast as Guybrush for The Curse of Monkey Island (1997). [1] He has reprised the role for each of the sequels, plus the special editions of the first two games, [3] and has also voiced characters in six Star Wars games and two Metal Gear games. [4]
After ending his active voice-acting career in the early 2000s (with brief appearances in games), Armato has worked in the dining industry. Until 2015, Armato wrote a food-oriented blog, Skillet Doux. [5] He was employed by The Arizona Republic as a food critic and journalist from 2015–2020. [6] [7]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Aaahh!!! Real Monsters | Mike Additional Voices | 3 episodes |
| 1997–1998 | Burn-Up Excess | Additional Voices | English version |
| 1999 | Godzilla: The Series | Additional Voices | Episode: "An Early Frost" |
| 1999–2003 | Rocket Power | Sputz Ringley | |
| 2003 | Geneshaft | Hiroto Amagiwa Young Hiroto |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | The Curse of Monkey Island | Guybrush Threepwood | |
| 1999 | Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace | Coruscant Male #2 Naboo Soldier #3 Naboo Soldier #6 Ticket Vendor Alien Citizen | |
| Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance | Imperial TIE Interceptor Pilot Rebel Pilot | ||
| 2000 | Star Wars: Force Commander | Repair Droid #47-B Stormtrooper 2 | |
| Star Wars Episode I: Racer | Ben Quadinaros Clegg Holdfast | ||
| Escape from Monkey Island | Guybrush Threepwood Duck Monkey 4 | ||
| 2001 | Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty | Navy SEAL | English version |
| 2002 | Star Wars Racer Revenge | Ben Quadinaros Clegg Holdfast | |
| Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast | Jedi 1 Prisoner 1 Protocol Droid (C-3PO) | ||
| Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance | Navy SEAL | ||
| 2009 | The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition | Guybrush Threepwood | Remake of 1990 game |
| Tales of Monkey Island | Guybrush Threepwood Pyrite Parrot | ||
| 2010 | Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge: Special Edition | Guybrush Threepwood | Remake of 1991 game |
| 2022 | Return to Monkey Island | Guybrush Threepwood | [8] |
| 2022 | Lucy Dreaming | Woody | From UK studio Tall Story Games [9] |
| 2023 | Sea of Thieves | Guybrush Threepwood | [10] |
Monkey Island is a series of adventure games. The first four games were produced and published by LucasArts, earlier known as Lucasfilm Games. The fifth was developed by Telltale Games with LucasArts, while the sixth was developed by Terrible Toybox with Lucasfilm Games and Devolver Digital.
Loom is a 1990 fantasy-themed graphic adventure game by Lucasfilm Games. The project was led by Brian Moriarty, a former Infocom employee and author of classic text adventures Wishbringer (1985), Trinity (1986), and Beyond Zork (1987). It was the fourth game to use the SCUMM adventure game engine, and the first of those to avoid the verb–object interface introduced in Maniac Mansion.
The Secret of Monkey Island is a 1990 point-and-click graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games. It takes place in a fictional version of the Caribbean during the age of piracy. The player assumes the role of Guybrush Threepwood, a young man who dreams of becoming a pirate, and explores fictional islands while solving puzzles.
The Curse of Monkey Island is an adventure game developed and published by LucasArts in 1997. A sequel to 1991's Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, it is the third game in the Monkey Island series.
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge is an adventure game developed and published by LucasArts in 1991. A sequel to 1990's The Secret of Monkey Island, it is the second game in the Monkey Island series. It was the sixth LucasArts game to use the SCUMM engine, and the first game to use the iMUSE sound system. In it, pirate Guybrush Threepwood searches for the legendary treasure of Big Whoop and again faces off against the pirate LeChuck, who is now an undead corpse.
Deluxe Paint, often referred to as DPaint, is a bitmap graphics editor created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts and published for the then-new Amiga 1000 in November 1985. A series of updated versions followed, some of which were ported to other platforms. An MS-DOS release with support for the 256 color VGA standard became popular for creating pixel graphics in video games in the 1990s.
Guybrush Ulysses Threepwood is a fictional character who serves as the main protagonist of the Monkey Island series of computer adventure games by LucasArts. He is a pirate who adventures throughout the Caribbean in search of fame and treasure alongside his love interest and later wife, Elaine Marley, often thwarting the plans of the undead pirate LeChuck in the process. Though a "mighty pirate" by his own account, he is a rather clumsy and disorganized protagonist throughout the series. It is a running joke throughout the games for characters to garble Guybrush Threepwood's unusual name, either deliberately or accidentally. In all voiced appearances, Guybrush has been portrayed by actor Dominic Armato.
Escape from Monkey Island is an adventure game developed and released by LucasArts in 2000. It is the fourth game in the Monkey Island series, and the sequel to the 1997 videogame The Curse of Monkey Island. It is the first game in the series to use 3D graphics and the second game to use the GrimE engine, which was upgraded from its first use in Grim Fandango.
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Tales of Monkey Island is a 2009 graphic adventure video game developed by Telltale Games under license from LucasArts. It is the fifth game in the Monkey Island series, released nearly a decade after the previous installment, Escape from Monkey Island. Developed for Windows and the Wii console, the game was released in five episodic segments, between July and December 2009. In contrast to Telltale's previous episodic adventure games, whose chapters told discrete stories, each chapter of Tales of Monkey Island is part of an ongoing narrative. The game was digitally distributed through WiiWare and Telltale's own website, and later through Steam and Amazon.com. Ports for OS X, the PlayStation Network, and iOS were released several months after the series ended.
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King's Quest III: To Heir is Human is a VGA-style fangame remake/reimagining/retelling of Sierra Entertainment's King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human by Infamous Adventures. It was released on June 19, 2006. A slightly expanded remake offers new material including; new cutscenes, a few new characters, expanded narration or dialogue, additions and changes to some of the plot, full speech, new or modified locations, and Easter eggs. Most of the original puzzles remain intact or item placement changed. The game received the AGS reward for best documentation in 2006.
The International House of Mojo is a website focused on LucasArts video games. It later expanded to cover studios founded by former LucasArts employees, including Double Fine Productions, Telltale Games, Autumn Moon Entertainment and Crackpot Entertainment. It was founded in 1997 by James Spafford and is among the longest-running "fan sites" on the internet.
Tajemství Oslího ostrova, known in English as The Secret of Donkey Island, is a 1994 Czech point-and-click adventure video game. Distributed by Petr Vochozka through his company Vochozka Trading in June 1994, it was the first nationally distributed PC game in the country and one of the first Czech games commercially available. A parody of the successful Monkey Island series, the story plays out as if it were a direct sequel to The Secret of Monkey Island, ignoring the continuity of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge.
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