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"Guybrush Threepwood and ... porcelain?"

Having rented/soon to own Escape from Monkey Island, I am pretty (well, totally) new to this series, and there are a couple of jokes I feel should be funny but, well, aren't.

Could someone explain the significance of:

Porcelain
The mysterious houses in Melee that transport you across the road
Why everything is the "Secong biggest..."? What's the first?

Also, is there anything else I should know?

Thanks.

And also made another joke in the floppy disc version of MI1, as well.

When you clicked on the tree stump in the forest, Guybrush would say that it led to "a huge maze of tunnels"... and the game prompted you to insert disc# 34, or something... which didn't exist.

You need to play a game like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Adventure version) to understand the "huge maze of tunnels" thing...

Turbonutter wrote:
> Didn't Monkey 1 come out on the C64?

I dont think so...

Amiga first... then ST and PC (later possibly the Mac?)

It was a few disks worth on the Amiga...

given that an Amiga disk held what... 880k(?) ... and the C64 had 64k memory, there would have been a LOT of disk swapping :)

(How much disk space did the C64 file format leave on those 5 1/4 inch floppies? was it 128k... 256k... ?)

(although there was a lot of disk swapping on the C64's Zak McKraken... )

Didn't Monkey 1 come out on the C64?

In Monkey Island one, when you "look" at the giant monkey head, Guybrush will say "That's the second biggest monkey head I've ever seen."

Just another bit of jokery, and now a running joke.

CJC wrote:
> Guybrush Toothwood is the best computer character I have ever
> played. I first played him about 6 years ago when the very first
> Monkey Island came out.

6 years? ... Try 11 ... Monkey Island was originally released in 1990 :)

Monkey Island sucks

You wanna buy a decent game

The porcelain and teleportation things are running "jokes" with no explaination. No idea about the second biggest thing, I've played them all but I didn' get it.

Come to think of it, Big Whoop is the biggest thing.

The mysterious houses that transport you across the raod were in the first monkey island. They are simply there to make you wonder why they are there. Seeing as every door in the game can do something, they had a street full of doors which did nothing, so they added a stupid cmedy element. Can't remember them from Monkey Island 2 though.

The biggest thing might be Big Whoop the musterious treasure from Monkey Island 2.

As for Porcelain, must be an MI3 joke, definately not a reference from one and two.