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Platforms
MobyRank MobyScore
Commodore 64
...
3.9
Apple II
...
2.7
DOS
71
3.9

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

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User Reviews

The adventure game that makes no sense DOS Black Wolf (37231)
One Great Game, and the first of the SCUMM era of Lucasfilm/Lucasarts games NES Scott G (736)
Perhaps not Lucas Arts' best game, but a cool adventure nevertheless DOS Unicorn B. Lynx Bronze Star Contributing Member (60097)
A classic game, whose sequel I find a lot more appealing. DOS Tomer Gabel Bronze Star Contributing Member (4476)
When This Games A Rockin Don't Come A Knockin NES MasterMegid (858)
*CENSORED*!!! Maniac Mansion!!! DOS Zovni (9141)
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

RPGFan NES Oct 05, 2000 96 out of 100 96
Kingdom of Desire Commodore 64 Jul 01, 2006 8.5 out of 10 85
Nintendo Land NES 2003 80 out of 100 80
Adventure Classic Gaming DOS Oct 08, 1998 4 out of 5 80
The Games Machine (UK) DOS Dec, 1989 76 out of 100 76
Amiga Joker Amiga Feb, 1990 75 out of 100 75
Aventura y Cía DOS Nov 26, 2005 3 Stars3 Stars3 Stars3 Stars3 Stars 60
GameCola.net NES Oct, 2002 5.5 out of 10 55
GameCola.net DOS Apr, 2008 4.8 out of 10 48
The Video Game Critic NES Oct 15, 2007 D+ 33

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Trivia

The name of Razor's punk band is "Razor and the Scummettes", a reference to the SCUMM graphical interface used by LucasArts adventures.

And actually, you can microwave the hamster in any of the computer releases (but not the NES version), but you have to use a sick-minded character (such as Syd or Razor) when doing it. Showing the exploded hamster to Weird Ed will make him kill that character.


This entry was contributed by POMAH (19497), NGC 5194 (17444), jeremy strope (126), Tony Van (2707) and Servo (51486)
 

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