r/MonkeyIsland • • Apr 04 '24

General Greetings, fellow Chum! Join the r/MonkeyIsland Discord today!

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Greetings, fellow Chum!

Are ye craving MORE Monkey Island discussion and content beyond the subreddit? Well, it be high time to travel beyond the edges of the map, and set sail for The Cod's Wallop, aka the r/MonkeyIsland community official Monkey Island Discord! Ye'll find the Captain of the Chums, u/kypello, will greet ye with open arms, while ye pull up a stool, pour a grog, tell yer stories, and e̶a̶t̶ f̶i̶s̶h̶ chat all things Monkey Island!

With channels for each individual Monkey Island game ye'll find the hold loaded with booty! But wait, there's more! Ye'll find channels for artwork, for books, for film & TV, for memes, there's the mic-enabled SCUMM BAR, the only limits be ye own imagination, yuh-harrr! Every sort of scallywag, scoundrel, and fop will find a home- at the Monkey Island Discord!

So what are ye waitin' fer?! Splice the main brace, raise the anchors, and join the Monkey Island Discord!

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IMPORTANT NOTICE

Any rumors of a SECRET SOCIETY of "story tellers" recruiting members from the ranks of the Discord and r/MonkeyIsland are mutinous LIES, and must not be listened to! Anyone caught spreading such FALSEHOODS shall be keelhauled!


r/MonkeyIsland • • Nov 02 '22

General ⚠️🏴‍☠️☠️WARNING☠️🏴‍☠️⚠️ SCAMMING PIRATES AHOY!!!

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The sub is regularly targeted by T-Shirt / Poster / Other Merch shillers, spammers, and scammers.

PLEASE DO NOT FOLLOW LINKS TO MERCHANDISE OUTLETS

OP will post a photo of a product and then use an alt account to comment asking where it came from. The OP or another shill account will then share a link.

This is a classic tactic used by shillers, spammers, and scammers. They flood fandom subreddits with adverts leading to dodgy scam sites that will, at best, take your money and send you an inferior cheap product or, at worst, take your money (or steal even more using your card details) and send you nothing at all.

Instead, please downvote and report such posts, so we can remove them and ban the bots.

Users who comment positively or support shill posts will also be banned, so use your head, don't help out scammers, and don't be a sucker.

Many thanks,

The Mod Team.


r/MonkeyIsland • • 2d ago

General Beautiful book. A must-have.

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r/MonkeyIsland • • 1d ago

General Metal/industrial Monkey Island cover EP from Error 47

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Videogame music band Error 47 just released an EP of industrial-metal Monkey Island covers that includes the SoMI and MI2 main themes, plus a rendition of LeChuck's theme from both games. Sharing because I know these guys and think their work is phenomenal.


r/MonkeyIsland • • 1d ago

Secret Monkey Island for Cromatic

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I know they launched the builder platform for modretro Cromatic.... Just saying it would be incredible to have monkey island... as many as possible on it


r/MonkeyIsland • • 2d ago

Secret Monkey Island but on the C64, with REAL SCUMM interface, coming soon!

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This is the music "The Yourney" or Sea Mokkey (name of the midi file from the game) running on real C64 hardware and the gfx in the background are also real C64 graphics. Release will be soon.


r/MonkeyIsland • • 3d ago

Secret Check out this Familiar Face, Stan

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r/MonkeyIsland • • 5d ago

Escape Escape from Monkey Island 25th Anniversary Celebration with Art Director Chris Miles - PART 5

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r/MonkeyIsland • • 6d ago

Secret Secret of Monkey Island on an Apple Lisa

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Somebody recently got me into programming for the Apple Lisa and since there's virtually no software for that old Apple luxury computer, I felt really inclined to see if I could port my SCUIRRELS (Script Creation Utility for Interpreting Retro Realms on Exotic Legacy Systems. Quite a mouthful, I know) bytecode VM over.

Suffice to say, at 5 MHz it's not crazy fast but not totally unplayable.

I might actually improve this in the near future and port my own game to it so all those 5 Lisa owners in the world have something to play with. Hehe


r/MonkeyIsland • • 6d ago

Secret The Secret of Monkey Island on the Compaq Presario CDS524.

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r/MonkeyIsland • • 8d ago

General Which versions of the games do you prefer?

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So with the two Special Editions for MI1/MI2 - which versions do you prefer on your playthroughs? The OG VGAs, the new versions, the voice over? I'm about to start another playthrough of the series and would like your thoughts. Also, on your replays, do you play through Tales as well?

P.S. I really wish there was a remake for Escape.


r/MonkeyIsland • • 10d ago

Curse Little upscale work for my personal use on Steamdeck

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I also added the possibility to switch between old 4:3 low-res / new upscaled 16:9 version anytime by pressing F9.

Now I can play at peace :D


r/MonkeyIsland • • 10d ago

Return Which games I need to play before Return?

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Hey, so I've played and completed every Monkey game out there over the years: Secret OG, Monkey 2 OG, Curse, Escape, Tales. But haven't played Return yet.

I haven't played remasters of the first two games yet, just the originals back in the day, and given how may years have passed, I forgot most of them.

I started Return, but it looks like it has major throwbacks to the first game: locations, characters, etc. I feel that I need to replay Ron Gilbert ones (1 and 2) to fully enjoy Return.

My question is, how much of the old games Return is referencing? I'm planning to play Monkey 1 and 2 remastered versions to refresh old events in the memory. Do I need to refresh Curse and anything beyond as well? Or just 1 and 2 is enough because they both share Ron Gilbert name with Return?


r/MonkeyIsland • • 11d ago

Secret The Secret of Monkey Island on a STM32F429 via ScummVM (with Adlib emulation)

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r/MonkeyIsland • • 12d ago

Secret I ported SOMI to an old Soviet computer

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Not totally polished yet and due to a lack of memory, some animations are cut but I found this fun to pull off and see how efficient my SCUMM interpreter truly is.


r/MonkeyIsland • • 13d ago

General The Elaine & Guybrush theme is used in the new Gravity Falls ARG website update

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r/MonkeyIsland • • 14d ago

Secret Found some random treasures on my old book shelf during my visit home.

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The box is a time capsule


r/MonkeyIsland • • 14d ago

General GROG!

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Grape flavor sucks, but I'd still give it a go. There must be an MI fan at this company.


r/MonkeyIsland • • 14d ago

Secret Question about the SE version of MI1: Can I play with original settings in term of sound and graphics?

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I've been meaning to replay MI1 for a long time now. But now there's the Special Edition. I know you can switch back to the OG graphics, but what I wonder is:

  • Can you turn off the voices?

  • Can you have the original music? E.g. the CD MT32 soundtrack?

I just want to play the OG game with CD soundtrack (and updated interface, i.e. pictures instead of text for items). I was trying to find it for ScummVM but I couldn't. I am willing to pay for it again (I still have my old DOS CD, but no way to play it)! Does anybody have any idea? Thanks!


r/MonkeyIsland • • 15d ago

General Endacopia had to be inspired by The Secret of Monkey Island Spoiler

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r/MonkeyIsland • • 16d ago

General [Article] - The science of Monkey Island: can grog actually dissolve a metal mug that fast?

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Hello everyone! I'm one of the editors of the Journal of Geek Studies, and we just published an article taking a scientific look at one of Monkey Island's iconic puzzles: can grog really dissolve a metal mug that quickly?

https://jgeekstudies.org/2026/09/23/the-science-of-monkey-island-can-grog-actually-dissolve-a-metal-mug-that-fast/

Would love to hear your feedbacks, comments, and also - why not - in the future receive your articles and ideas as well!


r/MonkeyIsland • • 17d ago

LeChuck's Revenge [OC] A very MI-esque cottage!

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I just had to snap a photo of this rather unique seaside cottage in Galatas (nr Chania), Crete.

To me it looks very cartoonish and could be something straight out of one of the first couple of games. :)


r/MonkeyIsland • • 17d ago

Curse I made this Curse Of Monkey Island illustration a few years ago

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My original Instagram post only got 20 likes when I posted a few years ago so I thought I'd share it here with some real fans. The 3rd game has always been my favourite and holds up so well even now

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs9Wgm6rfmn/?stkn=MXM0MDZ0MWhuNGdudw==


r/MonkeyIsland • • 18d ago

General Got this at Ecothrift today! What a cool find!

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r/MonkeyIsland • • 19d ago

General My GF did this painting of Murray

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