Fan-made Maniac Mansion 256 Color Remake

xDCDx writes "LucasFan Games have just released an impressive 256 color remake of Maniac Mansion. There is a sequel to Zak McKracken available too. Their website is scarce in details, but the games speak for themselves. It seems the perfect timing for this release, now that LucasArts is obsessed with killing the graphical adventure genre. (If only Ron Gilbert would buy Monkey Island rights and made Monkey Island 3a: The Real Story...)"

Hamster go BOOM!

[Killjoy_NL]

Putting the hamster in the microwave, pure genius.

I can't hear a microwave go ping without thinking about that part of Maniac Mansion :)

Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis canceled?

[Lispy]

Looks like the will have to cancel their 256color version of Indy: The fate of atlantis [tentakelvilla.de].

Now that it has been discovered [slashdot.org]...

Re:Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis canceled?

[Lispy]

Are you sure your name isn't "Dehumourizer"? ;-)

Oh man...

[Anonymous Coward]

That guy with the sig saying he'll award mod points to people who get Monkey Island into their post is gonna run out...

Zak McKracken Sequel

[Anonymous Coward]

You get to play as Zak's brother, Phil, this time around...

Re:This game was awesome on the NES...

[meringuoid]

I remember they took out the whole 'hamster exploding' scene in the NES version...

Most of the kids would say 'How sick!' if you tried to microwave the hamster. But one of the girls would say 'No way - those things are, like, FULL of cholesterol!' Nice touch. A few other censored elements included 'Chewy Caramel Centre' becoming 'Pretty brains' on the medical chart, and the 'Muff Diver' game becoming 'Tuna Diver'...

Re:A Hint

[Eclypser]

Dammit, why didn't I look there. I thought the game was so dumb because you couldn't even get in the house. Live and learn I guess.

Man, I wish I was kidding about never getting in the house.

Re:Two things I never found out:

[Zawash]

The chainsaw could be fueled by the Chainsaw Fuel container found in Zak McKracken, which was useless without the Chainsaw, which only was found in Maniac Mansion.
..So: It's only a cross-game joke. ;)

By the way, I'm selling these fine leather jackets..

Cheers!

Zawash.

Re:Hamster go BOOM!

[meringuoid]

After watching it POOF, try giving the exploded hamster back to its owner Weird Ed...

Please don't do that. Weird Ed is a sensitive boy who loves his hamster very much. Doing something like that to him could scar him mentally for years and leave him a complete wreck.

If you dare show Ed the exploded remains of his microwaved hamster, I insist that you come back in five years or so and see what you've done to him. Shame on you.

N.B: Seriously, though, do not put hamsters in microwaves. This is only safe using 22nd century hardware; kids who put hamsters in microwaves in our century get taken away from their parents and put into care - so DON'T do it!

Re:Egg go SPLORTCH!

[Anonymous Coward]

..I've always wanted to test it myself, but I've heard enough horror stories of egg being found in the most obscure corners of the kitchen for weeks after such incidents.. :-D

As a kid I placed an egg in the microwave under an a very heavy pyrex dish (ya gotta be able to see it ya know), and it slammed that pyrex into the top of the microwave and indeed did coat the interior of the oven with partially cooked egg carnage. What suprised me the most was the force of the explosion.

Then again, I've heard stories on construction sites about plumbers, pipe fitters, and electricians "getting back" at each other by sticking huge roaches in the microwave in the break shack of the opposition, turning it on, and walking out. Ewwww..

Re:A Hint

[nkh]

I peed my pants the first time Nurse Edna chased me in the kitchen.

Re:Egg go SPLORTCH!

[nkh]

My dad tried it one month ago. I told him that I saw the same thing in Zak McKracken and he shouldn't do it.
His answer was: Pfff stupid video games.
I hope that taught him a lesson...

Re:Two things I never found out:

[Tackhead]

> The only three-headed monkey in here is in front of me.

"...you are behind me! If I value my life, I should be somewhere else?"
- after the Sierra/LucasArts merger: "Escape from Babylon 5!"

Re:A Hint

[cuzality]

[Mod parent funny.]

Dude, I get a chill *now* thinking about it...

It's been so long I don't remember why, but you *had* to go in there for something, and it was always freaky! I can remember clicking the move button in the opposite direction over and over like it would make the kid move faster...

Re:A Hint

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's a hint: the front door key is under the doormat. It took me almost an hour to figure that out the first time around (but then I was only 7 years old).

Ha, it's great; I read your comment, downloaded the game, and the very first thing I did was I accidentally right-click on one of the characters when I meant to left click. It caused the other character to start talking to him. She asked him, "So how do we get into the mansion?" And he said, "We can look for a key ... under the doormat."

Bet you wish you'd done that when you were seven. :-D

Re:A Hint

[Robmonster]

Back when I was seven mice only had one button ;)

Re:256?!

[Cnik70]

because 257 would just be silly :)

Re:How many of you completed Maniac Mansion?

[meringuoid]

It actually made it the game more open because you could do stupid things on purpose!

"Sometimes I do stupid stuff, and I don't even know why... it's as if my body was being controlled by some sadistic, immoral puppet-master."

-- Bernard Bernoulli to Weird Ed Edison, Day of the Tentacle

Valuable Life Lesson

[Anonymous Coward]

Nothing has been more useful to me and to my continued success than the secret-brick-prison-door-release trick. It works everywhere!

- OBL

Re:get it off p2p

[jargoone]

Is your copy of VMWare a legally purchased one? If not, did you test that to make sure that it wasn't trojaned to mask the trojans in everything else you download? :-)

No Americans allowed!

[NanoGator]

I can't enter the site. I'm not Spanish, British, or German. :(

Re:get it off p2p

[KDR_11k]

Did you verify the integrity of your tinfoil hat before putting it on? You know, the government could have installed a little brain probe inside that transmits all of your thoughts while using the hat as an antenna...

Re:A Hint

[Feanturi]

Back when I was seven, mice would bite you if you tried to push any of their buttons.