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
I took a stab at recreating some of the early Edison sprites seen in @danielalbu 's Gary Winnick interview. They're a lot shorter than the versions in the published game, and look a lot less squashed when they're seen with aspect ratio correction (image 3).
You can also see the shorter early sprite for Wendy in a piece of WIP art Ron Gilbert posted on his blog a number of years ago.
Here's the tileset 0 of Maniac Mansion for NES. It is loaded on each room and contains common background elements as well as the font for the game
This is from the French version. I can't believe how horrible are the accented characters. They look just ugly. I guess they were designed by an engineer 🤣
#Halloween is coming soon! 🎃🦇I'm showing you scenes from my #ManiacMansionMania episode The Curse of Maniac Mansion (2006) starring Michael Myers and Dr. Loomis.
After replaying, I got goosebumps from this game... because it's so grotty and trashy! 😅
#ManiacMansionMania Episode 48 - Wendy und das Buch des Todes (2006) by fireorange.
I made the graphics, except three pictures on the wall (and the main characters plus the blue Thing). Listen to the wonderful music composed by @problem.
I still love listening to the music of the #ManiacMansionMania Episode 15: Place Machine (2005), a wonderful and timeless short #game by @problem.
Btw, you can play this game in 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇮🇹.
It’s Manic Mansion time! We had to restart the game as we lost the quarter. Now we are back to have most of the keys and we JUST acquired the combination to get us to the quarter! #commodore#c64#maniacmansion
It’s Maniac Mansion time!
Razor repaired the power to the arcade. However we lost the 25 ct coin and we noticed we ripped the envelope. So we are in a dead end. That means: A FRIGGIN RESTART OF THE GAME!
I am so glad later games didn’t habe this problem. #commodore#c64#retrogaming#maniacmansion
Light blue brings all 'em good vibes! Zak McKracken with Bobbin Threadbare from Loom and Dr Fred from Maniac Mansion - all with groucho glasses - having a good time
It's like they are taking a selfie and Dr Fred included Chuck in it too ❤️
It’s Maniac Mansion day! Michael drained the Pool and Razor used the commotion to retrieve a glowing key and the battery powered radio. #commodore#c64#retrogaming#maniacmansion
Green is done! Green Tentacle from Maniac Mansion listening to some funky tunes, and Wally from Monkey Island trying to decipher how to become cool beans like Chuck the plant