Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle

Description

Purple Tentacle, one of the crazy Dr. Fred's creations, drinks contaminated water from Dr. Fred's Sludge-o-matic. He mutates into an insane genius and grows arms, and now he's plotting to take over the world. In an effort to stop him, Dr. Fred sends three friends, Bernard, Hoagie and Laverne back in time to yesterday, in order for them to turn off the Sludge-o-matic and stop the sludge from spilling into the river, thus preventing the whole incident. Naturally, the cheap doctor uses a fake diamond over a real one in his time machine, which blows up sending Hoagie 200 years into the past and Laverne 200 years into the future.

Now you must bring back Hoagie and Laverne, with the help of the time machine's ability to move objects between time periods, and then stop evil Purple from taking over the world.

Day of the Tentacle is a point-and-click adventure game and a sequel to Maniac Mansion. The player controls Bernard, and later also Hoagie and Laverne, being able to switch between them at any time. By using the commands at the bottom of the screen, the character can pick up items, use them on other things, talk to people and more. Any of the three friends can also send his items across time to another friend.

The game takes place in the same building, but in three different eras, and thus affecting history takes a vital part in some puzzles. For instance, Hoagie can hide a bottle of wine in the XVIIIth century, and Laverne discovers the bottle in the XXIIIth century - but by then, the wine has already turned into vinegar.

Alternate Titles

• "瘋狂時代" -- Chinese spelling (traditional)
• "День Щупальца" -- Russian spelling
• "יומו של הטנטקל" -- Hebrew spelling
• "Maniac Mansion 2" -- Informal title
• "Il Giorno del Tentacolo" -- Italian title
• "DOTT" -- Common abbreviation
• "Der Tag des Tentakels" -- German title
• "Den' Schupaltsa" -- Russian title

Part of the Following Groups

• Game Engine: SCUMM
• Games with hidden/unlockable full games
• Maniac Mansion series
• Time Manipulation games

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User Reviews

Make my day tentacle....	DOS	Zovni (9138)
I feel like I could... I feel like I could... take on the world!	DOS	Unicorn Lynx (68944)
Even funnier than Maniac Mansion	DOS	Black Wolf (37241)
Crazy, funny, overall great game!	DOS	hikari_no_tsubasa (11)
perhaps LucasArts' best, right up there with Monkey Island...	DOS	Gothicgene (83)
A ludicrously funny romp through time!	DOS	Michael Reznick (32)
One of the funniest, coolest and down right strangest games ever!	DOS	Mark Kemp (3)
The funniest computer game ever, and one hell of a game!	DOS	Tomer Gabel (4476)
Timeless masterpiece!	DOS	silent_driver (10)
Witty, unique, fun with great graphics what more do you need?	DOS	Gemmalah (8)

The Press Says

Quandary	DOS	Oct, 1997		100
Adventure Gamers	DOS	Mar 11, 2005		100
VicioJuegos.com	DOS	May 23, 2005	95 out of 100	95
PC Player (Germany)	DOS	Jul, 1993	93 out of 100	93
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	DOS	May, 1994	11 out of 12	92
Mac Gamer	Macintosh	1996	91 out of 100	91
Adventure-Treff	DOS	May 30, 2002	91 out of 100	91
PC Joker	DOS	Aug, 1993	90 out of 100	90
Joystick	Macintosh	Jan, 1996	90 out of 100	90
The Good Old Days	DOS	Jul 20, 2008	5 out of 6	83

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Trivia

In the plot of the game, you are forced to use a microwave 200 years in the future to melt the frozen hamster left in the ice bin from 200 years ago. Laverne hopes that the microwaves aren't like the ones back in her time because they could really pop a hamster good. This is reference to the fact that you could microwave Ed's hamster in Maniac Mansion (causing the hamster to explode). Another reference to this is the fact that Ed's hamster used to be brown with white spots, now it is just brown.