Which Monkey Island has the smallest number of monkeys?

[JacquesSparkyTail]

2 hours ago, BaronGrackle said:

Secret: Mêlée, Hook, and Monkey

That turned out to be a much breezier conversation. For the sake of padding it out a little here’s my full rankings.

 

secret - 3

curse - 4

escape 5

revenge - 5 (6 if you include the fortress)

tales - 8? There’s a lot at any rate

 

now maybe i’ll be wrong and people will correct me. That should get us through another 6 pages.

[BaronGrackle]

Revenge is only 1 because they aren't actually islands they are all connected whoooaaaaahhhh...

[Niemandswasser]

1 hour ago, JacquesSparkyTail said:

That turned out to be a much breezier conversation. For the sake of padding it out a little here’s my full rankings.

 

secret - 3

curse - 4

escape 5

revenge - 5 (6 if you include the fortress)

tales - 8? There’s a lot at any rate

 

now maybe i’ll be wrong and people will correct me. That should get us through another 6 pages.

What's the fifth in Revenge? Scabb, Booty, Phatt, Dinky, and...? For the moment are we accepting CMI's take that the carnival was actually on Monkey?

[Staple Remover]

So are there more windows or doors in the Monkey Island games?

[Alexandra IDV]

46 minutes ago, Niemandswasser said:

What's the fifth in Revenge? Scabb, Booty, Phatt, Dinky, and...? For the moment are we accepting CMI's take that the carnival was actually on Monkey?

I guess you exit the elevator on Mêlée for a single screen... if we want to count that (I do)

[Scummbuddy]

I thought the fifth might be wherever Big Whoop Amusement Park is, but we're about to find out that was all a dream and Guybrush never left beneath Dinky Island.

[BaronGrackle]

Scabb Island

Booty Island

Phatt Island

Dinky Island

Mr. Rogers' Island

Mêlée Island
 

That's 6 islands, not counting LeChuck's Fortress or the later games' assertion that Monkey Island was the end.

[Vainamoinen]

13 hours ago, Scummbuddy said:

Which Monkey Island has the smallest number of islands?

 

Huge can of worms. Depending on your definition of "island", Tales could win by a landslide.

 

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-makes-an-island

[ThunderPeel2001]

What about locations (ie. screens)? They used to apparently measure game size by locations.

 

[Huz]

Monkey Island 1 is out. It has an infinite number of roadside locations on Melee Island, it's just they all start to look the same.

[JacquesSparkyTail]

Here’s a question. Which monkey travelled to the most islands? 
 

Did jojo 1 really end up in that wedding dress on melee?

 

You could carry jojo 2 around three islands in revenge but is that canon?

 

Jojo jr travels to melee but there’s a quick pit stop at the ultimate insult amplification tower. Is this a seperate island? It looks like it but its not really clear. 
 

This started out as me trying to think of the dumbest question possible but now i sort of have to know. 

[Jake]

4 hours ago, JacquesSparkyTail said:

This started out as me trying to think of the dumbest question possible but now i sort of have to know. 

Haha oh no, the curse of this thread continues!

[BaronGrackle]

4 hours ago, JacquesSparkyTail said:

You could carry jojo 2 around three islands in revenge but is that canon?

 

Jojo jr travels to melee but there’s a quick pit stop at the ultimate insult amplification tower. Is this a seperate island? It looks like it but its not really clear. 

The winner will be the final monkeys that LeChuck and Elaine dropped off in Tales. They went to all those other islands to drop off other monkeys first.

[Gins]

On 9/13/2022 at 12:24 AM, JacquesSparkyTail said:

That turned out to be a much breezier conversation. For the sake of padding it out a little here’s my full rankings.

 

secret - 3

curse - 4

escape 5

revenge - 5 (6 if you include the fortress)

tales - 8? There’s a lot at any rate

 

now maybe i’ll be wrong and people will correct me. That should get us through another 6 pages.

I count 6 for Escape: Mêlée, Hook, Jambalaya, Knuttin Atoll, Monkey and Lucre

[JacquesSparkyTail]

5 hours ago, Gins said:

I count 6 for Escape: Mêlée, Hook, Jambalaya, Knuttin Atoll, Monkey and Lucre

Hook! Of course. Counted it for secret. Forgot it for escape.

[Thrik]

If we’re counting Hook Isle, then what about…

 

[KestrelPi]

I would say there are only two sensible rules here:

 

1) named islands only - so Hook Isle counts, Knuttin Atoll counts, but not that Booty one.

 

2) Visitable islands only - any location that is separated by water from the other locations, and so is reachable only by boat/bridge or similar, which would include the booty mansion (or would it? It's sort of a land-bridge right?) but still knock out the little islands that have nothing on them and you can't go to.

Edited October 4, 2022 by KestrelPi

[Wally B.]

9 minutes ago, KestrelPi said:

or would it? It's sort of a land-bridge right?

Maybe it gets swallowed by the water with the tides and it's only traversable in certain times of the year, like Mont Saint-Michel, in that case it should count as an island

Edited October 4, 2022 by Wally B.

[Thrik]

I’m not sure tides exist in the Monkey Island universe. Shall we examine arguments for and against?

[Jake]

I think the top right one on Booty Island was named something like the island of parrots? @Marius please help me out

[Marius]

I have a theory!

 

30 minutes ago, Jake said:

I think the top right one on Booty Island was named something like the island of parrots? @Marius please help me out

It's the The Mysterious Island of Cleptomaniac Parrots! Part of good old Crooked Island.

[Jake]

4 minutes ago, Marius said:

It's the The Mysterious Island of Cleptomaniac Parrots! Part of good old Crooked Island.

They were replaced by one kleptomaniac seagull in a treehouse. 

[Gins]

2 hours ago, Thrik said:

I’m not sure tides exist in the Monkey Island universe. Shall we examine arguments for and against?

Do you mean actual tides or are we talking about the concept of tides being known within the Monkey Island universe?

 

Perhaps there is a book on Phatt mentioning them 🤔

[Jake]

The water ripples and there’s a moon, so there are

Could of course be from a wave machine and all the passing mechanical gondolas and bumper cars.

[Vainamoinen]

Wait, this thread still going? You guys are pathetic in the best possible sense.

 

Just so that this is clear, no counting monkeys in Return until GOG gets the game.

 

As to counting islands ... folks ... why doesn't anybody listen to me?

 

On 9/13/2022 at 11:05 AM, Vainamoinen said:

Huge can of worms. Depending on your definition of "island", Tales could win by a landslide.

 

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-makes-an-island

 

"In 2008, Royle writes, a nissologist—one who studies islands—named Christian Depraetere “selected a threshold of 0.1 sq km… and calculated that there are 86,732 islands at or above this size on earth.” When he reduced this threshold to .01 square kilometers, the number jumped up to around 450,000. When he brought it down still more, it rocketed to nearly 7 billion, “although there is some doubt as to the validity of his formula at this scale,” writes Royle."

 

If we use quantifiable measurements to determine what an island is and what is just a speck of dirt in the ocean, there's yet another problem, which is that we don't know how big these islands on the screen really are.

 

Unless of course we measure our islands in Guybrushs.

 

Edited October 4, 2022 by Vainamoinen