Maniac Mansion

Description

The Edison mansion has always been a creepy old house on the edge of town. There have been rumors of strange experiments going on and of odd creatures living amongst the Edison family. There is even a story that a meteorite once crashed near the home nearly 20 years ago. More immediately, a girl named Sandy has gone missing from the local highschool and her boyfriend Dave swears that he saw Dr. Fred abducting her. Dave knows that he cannot do it alone and will need help from two other students if he has any hope of infiltrating the mansion and rescuing Sandy.

Players start by choosing 2 students to accompany Dave to the Edison mansion, and can then switch between these three characters at will. Most actions are carried out by selecting verbs on the screen and applying them to an object (such as "OPEN Door"). Each character maintains a separate personality and may have a different way to solve a problem from his classmates. Thus many of the puzzles can be overcome in different ways depending on the character being used. If any one of the kids are captured by the Edisons, they are thrown into the dungeon and must be rescued themselves by any character who still has their freedom.

Alternate Titles

• "MM" -- Common Abbreviation

Part of the Following Groups

• Game Engine: SCUMM
• Games made into TV series
• Maniac Mansion series

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User Reviews

The adventure game that makes no sense	DOS	Black Wolf (37274)
One Great Game, and the first of the SCUMM era of Lucasfilm/Lucasarts games	NES	Scott G (735)
Perhaps not Lucas Arts' best game, but a cool adventure nevertheless	DOS	Unicorn B. Lynx (53162)
A classic game, whose sequel I find a lot more appealing.	DOS	Tomer Gabel (4480)
When This Games A Rockin Don't Come A Knockin	NES	MasterMegid (801)
*CENSORED*!!! Maniac Mansion!!!	DOS	Zovni (9114)
A Fantastic Game for Those who GET IT!	DOS	X X (3)
Classic, fun, what more do you want?	DOS	C W (6)
Good	DOS	Neon Hammerite (37)
Groundwork for some of the best adventure games of the '80s/'90s.	DOS	tFX (25)

The Press Says

VideoGame	NES	Jun, 1991		100
HonestGamers	NES	Jan 30, 2008	10 out of 10	100
NES Center	NES	2001	9 out of 10	90
Power Play	DOS	Mar, 1990	88 out of 100	88
Kingdom of Desire	Commodore 64	Jul 01, 2006	8.5 out of 10	85
Nintendo Land	NES	2003	80 out of 100	80
Just Games Retro	NES	Jul 18, 2003	77 out of 100	77
Adventure Gamers	DOS	Oct 13, 2006		70
Aventura y Cía	DOS	Nov 26, 2005		60
GameCola.net	DOS	Apr, 2008	4.8 out of 10	48

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Trivia

In the NES version ONLY. Many things had to be censored/changed to comply with Nintendo's policies.

The "bad words" we removed, for example: "The meteor is going to be pissed" was changed to "The meteor is going to be mad."

The "KILL THRILL" arcade game was changed to "TUNA"

"For a good time EDNA 3444" was changed to "Call Edna 3444"

For a complete list of changes and more info visit Douglas Crockford's website titled "The Expurgation of Maniac Mansion for the Nintendo Entertainment System" at http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/maniac.html