Talk:Escape from Monkey Island

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Get Smart?

I haven't played the game in a while, but I remember when surveying the monkey head on Monkey Island, he states that it is the second biggest monkey head he's seen. If this is true, then that should be some sort of reference to Get Smart, right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by MaximillianRiese (talk • contribs) 03:43, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

die

can you die if you stay under water for more than 10 minites when looking for Pegnose Pete's hideout

I think you sail on a raft - so no underwater fun. Poulsen 12:17, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think he says about the underwater case with the chest. Pictureuploader 13:15, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I had completely forgotten that. Poulsen 13:22, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

yer i do meen when looking for chest

Conisdering that it is done in the previous games, I would imagine yes. If you are underwater and do nothing for 10 minutes, you die.Wild ste 19:13, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, you can't die. Guybrush just says "uh-oh..." and resurfaces. CaptainAustralia 4:03, 9 March 2008

I read somewhere that after he resurfaces, keep putting him in the water and wiating until he drowns. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.30.80.9 (talk) 14:59, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Stuck on the Second Island

Can't remember the name of the second island but I have broken out of the bank, been arrested and now need to prove my innocence but don't know how. Tried getting the guy in the artificial limbs shop to smell the hankerchief but he can't cos he has a cold.

Would be gratful for a bit of advice.

Thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.19.57.146 (talk • contribs) .

This page is for discussion of the article; it is not a game help forum. Please go somewhere else. --Chrismith 04:30, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

put sawdust the flower water from the swamp and bait in the EMPTY spritser bottle and spray it at dead eye dave

MI5?

This is probably a stupid question but I haven't heard any mention of a fifth Monkey Island game. Is Lucasarts even working on one? What about all that talk about a "five game contract with Lucasarts" in EMI?

There is much speculation about this, but nothing has been confirmed. Please see this paragraph from the main MI article and its associated links for more information. Kris 07:23, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reference to other games

When I'm at the Giant Monkey Head, there is a Q-Tip that you can spot and Guybrush keeps making the point "Oh Yer". I'm assuming that this is a reference to a previous game so should it be put in (if someone knows what game it is)?Wild ste 16:12, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Useful citations

The New York Times ran an article on EfMI; it seems like a good source of citations: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E3DE133CF934A35751C1A9669C8B63 — Alan De Smet | Talk 04:26, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Loose the Kraken

When sailing to Jambalaya Island (on the PS2 version, which is what I've got), Carla says "Loose the Kraken!" in the middle of a bunch of other familiar-sounding movie quotes... but this came out before PotC was released. Are they both referring to some earlier movie quote? Or is the Pirates quote a throwback? But then, the others say movie quotes... Kuronue | Talk 13:36, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Most sources say that MI takes ideas from POTC (the ride) and POTC (the films) take ideas from MI. So it's entirely possible that it was in the film because of inspiration from MI. It could just be coincidence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.210.108.128 (talk) 14:37, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Removed

I removed the let alone another MI game part here [1] since it didn't make sense. Since Monkey Island was the most successful of their adventure game franchies, it seems if they were going to release a new adventure game the most likely may be Monkey Island. While (unfortunately I guess) I doubt they will, the let alone part still doesn't make sense Nil Einne 16:59, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:16, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merges

In my opinion Elaine Marley#Inconsistency and the latter part of Herman Toothrot should be merged in a new section in Escape from Monkey Island entitled Inconsistency, either in the plot or reception sections. The game is pretty famous for its plot holes. Additionally, this would save valuable info as the articles are in danger of being deleted. LaukkuTheGreit (Talk•Contribs) 16:14, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The problem there is that all the information you point to is entirely original research. It should just be gotten rid of, not dumped here (this article has enough problems already), unless it can be properly referenced with secondary sources commenting on these inconsistencies. -- Sabre (talk) 16:21, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh well, maybe the info is not worth keeping/moving, as it's entirely OR. I've changed my mind and removed the tags. LaukkuTheGreit (Talk•Contribs) 22:19, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reference material

There are numerous reviews for this game over at the online print archive. In addition, I dug up quite a few preview articles:

Hopefully, these will be of some help, when someone goes to improve the article. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 02:20, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

point & click

Escape from monkey island is classified as point & click. Please remove that, because this is not one of them. It's direct controlled. You can't even use the mouse. 84.251.92.156 (talk) 14:13, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Escape from Monkey Island

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Escape from Monkey Island's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "gamespot review":

From Full Throttle (1995 video game): Adam, Jeffrey (May 1, 1996). "Full Throttle Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on March 5, 2017. Retrieved February 23, 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
From The Curse of Monkey Island: Ryan, Michael E. (1997-11-25). "The Curse of Monkey Island Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on 2006-04-12. Retrieved 2014-11-15. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
From The Longest Journey: Dulin, Ron (26 June 2000). "The Longest Journey for PC Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on June 19, 2006. Retrieved 29 March 2008. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
From Grim Fandango: Dulin, Ron (October 30, 1998). "Grim Fandango for PC Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on March 17, 2014. Retrieved April 29, 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 16:59, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]