The Making of Maniac Mansion

Edge Magazine Online has a piece up discussing the making of the classic title Maniac Mansion. From the article: "Maniac Mansion, then, is a tale of two achievements: one of the engine that would go on, in true Purple Tentacle style, to take on and momentarily conquer the gaming world, the other being an onscreen escapade that would fire the imaginations of all who embraced it, later inspiring a TV sitcom and proving the perfect application, unsurprisingly, for its tailor-made technology."

DOTT

[1967mustangman]

Dott and Maniac Masion were two of the first PC Games I ever played (we had Amigas for most of my young childhood). I still think that that game holds some of the best video game quotes ever. Damn that Doctor Fred........Hey She knows our family motto This must be that Woodstock place my parents are always talking about..........Bernard float over here so I can punch you. And the part about getting vacuum cleaners written into the constitution!!!!

Lucas arts adventure games are the best

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't think that I have seen any adventure games that come to the same degree of fun and humor that lucas arts (used to make) I was going to buy my first game in years (the new Sam and Max). But they canceled it. Its sad to see such a good thing like adventure games disapear. I probably won't be a customer of the videogame industry any time soon. I just wish that someone would make something that seemed interesting like they used to.

Re:Strangely the Japaneese version...

[Dwedit]

Seriously though, Japan got the far worse end of the deal on the Famicom version of Mainiac Mansion. 104 character passwords! In a tiny Japanese font! With some characters looking extremely similar! And you thought Metroid or Castlevania 2 was bad...