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 (37237)
One Great Game, and the first of the SCUMM era of Lucasfilm/Lucasarts games	NES	Scott G (734)
Perhaps not Lucas Arts' best game, but a cool adventure nevertheless	DOS	Unicorn Lynx (84228)
When This Games A Rockin Don't Come A Knockin	NES	MasterMegid (897)
*CENSORED*!!! Maniac Mansion!!!	DOS	Zovni (9209)
A classic game, whose sequel I find a lot more appealing.	DOS	Tomer Gabel (4436)
A Fantastic Game for Those who GET IT!	DOS	X X (3)
Classic, fun, what more do you want?	DOS	C W (6)
Groundwork for some of the best adventure games of the '80s/'90s.	DOS	tFX (25)
Great game...looking at some of these other reviews makes me very upset.	DOS	Jason Harang (56)

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	Commodore 64	Apr, 1986	88 out of 100	88
Power Play	Amiga	Mar, 1990	88 out of 100	88
Adventure Classic Gaming	DOS	Oct 08, 1998	4 out of 5	80
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Feb, 1990	75 out of 100	75
Adventure Gamers	DOS	Oct 13, 2006		70
A Force for Good	DOS	Oct, 2007		50
GameCola.net	DOS	Apr, 2008	4.8 out of 10	48

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Trivia

The game was created via a scripting language created by Ron Gilbert. The langage was called SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion).

Every adventure game LucasArts has created has used a modified version of SCUMM.

SCUMM also powers the Putt-Putt kid game series.

Maniac Mansion is included as a bonus game inside Maniac Mansion 2 (you find it on a computer in the game!)

The game spawned a comedy series on the Family Channel in the early 90's.