With the Limited Run edition of #maniacmansion I finally have a copy of the poster that came either the original release. It is chuck full of hints and funny tidbits. #lucasarts#retrogaming
The #NES version of Maniac Mansion had an awesome soundtrack, probably one of the best soundtracks on the console IMHO. And this is a solid cover of "Dave's Theme". :thinkergunsunglasses:
There are many Maniac Mansion versions, including Meteor Mess 3D (2022) by @vampyregames. It's the Maniac Mansion remake in 3D with a voice cast.
Even Jeff has his own walkthrough! 😎
"Save early, save often" is not only Al Lowe's motto, but also the motto of Ronville's police station in #ManiacMansionMania Episode 54: CSI Ronville (2006) by Mister L.
I'm teaching my kids the values of the traditional point-and-click adventures, and we're currently about to finish #MonkeyIsland 2. Other classics like #ZakMcKracken and #ManiacMansion are on the to-to list, but I'm also looking for something new - and that's when I - somewhat late, admittedly, given that it was release some six years ago - discovered that the legendary @grumpygamer made #ThimbleweedPark which looks absolutely bloody amazing. And it's on sale on both Steam and GOG! This is going to be awesome! :-)
Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, Zak McKracken, Maniac Mansion, Sam & Max and more wallpaper shenanigans available right here https://ko-fi.com/sayomgwtf/shop
They are entirely free to download! Just let me know which one is your favorite 🥰
Another late Christmas present, that I almost missed: #ScummVM is available through the #iOS App Store. Of the devices I own the iPad always seemed to be the best platform for casually playing old point and click adventure games. That is now possible. And what do I say. #ManiacMansion is fantastic on a tablet. What a great start for 2024. https://www.scummvm.org/news/20231230/
Since AGS 2.62 games doesn't run on newer Windows systems properly, I recommend to run my first game #ManiacMansionMania Episode 40 - Trapped in the Cellar with the latest @scummvm 2.8.0. version.
Did you know you can play my game in 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 ?
Thanks to some art posted by @arcadehemingway on Twitter, I was able to complete my reconstruction of Gary Winnick's early sprites for the Edisons in Maniac Mansion (based on his original sprite sheets) to include Dead Cousin Ted!
Color concept art for the Edisons (then the Schwartzes) in Maniac Mansion, from @danielalbu's interview with Gary Winnick. Note the absence of blue skin!
I suspect the later enhanced EGA versions gave the Edisons blue skin to suggest a pallor from not going outside for 20 years, within the restrictions of the EGA palette - something done much more effectively in VGA in Day of the Tentacle. #maniacmansion#dayofthetentacle#dott#lucasarts#adventuregames
@danielalbu Notice that Nurse Edna's red hair and Weird Ed's hunchback in DOTT originated here in concept art for Maniac Mansion, but couldn't be implemented in a Commodore 64 game due to limits on sprite design.
Namely, C64 sprites could only be 24 pixels wide, and they could only have three colors plus transparency - of which two colors had to be the same across all sprites, and only one could change per sprite! #maniacmansion#lucasarts#dayofthetentacle#dott#adventuregames