Meanwhile, I liked Curse a lot; and while MI2 was fun, I thought the ending was garbage.

So many people apparently wanted an MI3 by Ron Gilbert, but after the end of MI2 I didn’t care for the idea. He admittedly pulled that ending out of his rear; It wasn’t supposed to have some profound significance. (I’m having trouble finding it, but I remember reading an interview with Ron where he basically says they sort of threw the ending of MI2 together, and it had no deeper meaning other than being funny.)