I’ve always had a passion for video games, Even when I was a little kid growing up my parents would hound me saying “Why don’t you go outside!” or “Why don’t you do something more productive with your time” , However that changed when I ended up making a career in the video game industry and was all like “You see it was all “study”.

With the start of my Latin American adventure only a couple of weeks away it got me thinking, how have video games prepared me for travel?

So I present the my totally serious list of how video games have prepared me for travel.

Game:Monkey Island 3

I’ve always been a huge adventure game fan and “Monkey Island 3” has to be one of my favorite games of all time. People who have played this game might remember the above section of the game where BlondBeard mistakes Guybrush for the infamous devil chicken resulting in his  saying the following in Spanish “MADRE DE DIOS, ES EL POLLO DIABLO!!!” which translates to “Mother of God, It’s the devil chicken”. But you ask how is this helpful?when could you possibly use that phrase to your advantage.

Well Ill give you a couple of  totally plausible scenarios

• Someone attempts to rob me, I point off behind the robber and utter this phrase. The robber curious about the prospect of a devil chicken lurking behind him turns to look, which is when I make my stealthy escape. Either that or he chuckles at my joke, we become friends and he buys me a beer.
• I am walking down the street when I come across a possessed looking evil chicken, Normally I wouldn’t know how to remark on this in Spanish but good old monkey island phrase comes to the rescue again.A passer by hear’s this witty remark and thinks that I’m awesome and we end up sailing the Caribbean in his private yacht for months on end eating the finest of exotic fruits.