The most primitive of people have made navigational maps for ages, even though those can't be compared to the detailed navigational maps of recent centuries. Mercator's map projection turned out to be so useful that it is still used in navigational maps today.īut map-making started much earlier. The orientation of these lines on Mercator's map made it much easier for sailors to plot a straight course without constantly recalculating their position. In 1569, he made a map on which longitude and latitude are represented by straight lines. Mercator (a pseudonym for Flemish scholar Gerhard Kremer) is one of the fathers of modern map-making.
As in the first game, treasure maps feature prominently, and with the addition of Wally the map maker, maps are getting the recognition they deserve. Maps play a very important role in LeChuck's Revenge. It seems that haunted pirate treasures are the stuff of folklore, and of video games. While it is true that many pirates were filthy rich with all the plundering they did, those guys in Northeast America didn't actually find all that much. Now, before you go out with your shovel to see if there aren't any treasure chests buried in your backyard, one word of advice. and his son Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of Mormonism. Among these divining treasure hunters were Joseph Smith, Sr. People believed that there were many treasures to be found in that area, all guarded by pirate ghosts of course, and they sought them out using supernatural methods.
Now, the existence of a real-life Big Whoop is unlikely at best, but what about hunting legendary pirate treasure in general? There is definitely a fascination with treasure in real life as well, and that's not just a recent development.įor instance, in the period between 17, there was a surge in treasure-seekers in Northeast America. The entire story of the game is built around Guybrush going on a treasure hunt, to seek out the legendary pirate treasure of Big Whoop. He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
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