Maniac Mansion

Description

The Edison mansion has always been a creepy old house on the edge of town. There have been rumors of strange experiments going on and of odd creatures living amongst the Edison family. There is even a story that a meteorite once crashed near the home nearly 20 years ago. More immediately, a girl named Sandy has gone missing from the local highschool and her boyfriend Dave swears that he saw Dr. Fred abducting her. Dave knows that he cannot do it alone and will need help from two other students if he has any hope of infiltrating the mansion and rescuing Sandy.Players start by choosing 2 students to accompany Dave to the Edison mansion, and can then switch between these three characters at will. Most actions are carried out by selecting verbs on the screen and applying them to an object (such as "OPEN Door"). Each character maintains a separate personality and may have a different way to solve a problem from his classmates. Thus many of the puzzles can be overcome in different ways depending on the character being used. If any one of the kids are captured by the Edisons, they are thrown into the dungeon and must be rescued themselves by any character who still has their freedom.

Genre

Adventure, Puzzle-Solving, 3rd-Person Perspective

Size

392 kb

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Secrets

Universal Inner Door Code

At any time before Dr. Fred plays the fixed Meteor Mess game (meaning you have repaired the wires in the attic), you can enter 0000 as the inner door combination and the door will open. Presumably, the door combination is not stored in memory until the Dr. Fred Meteor Mess cut scene plays.

(Note: the Dr. Fred attempting to play Meteor Mess cut scene will not set the inner door code)

Glitches

Avoid Nurse Edna At The Beginning

When you first go into the kitchen at the beginning, Nurse Edna is waiting there for you, and you have to outrun her or she'll get you. If you go the pause menu (where you can save, reset, etc.) and unpause, or switch to another kid and then back, she'll be gone.

Freeze Nurse Edna or Purple Tentacle

When you enter Nurse Edna's room, quickly switch to a different character before she gets you. Wait for at least 20 seconds and switch back to the character in Edna's room. She'll just sit there until the next time you enter her room. This can be repeated as often as you like.

A similar technique is used to bypass the Purple Tentacle without the help of the Meteor Police, Weird Ed, Green Tentacle, or Recording Contract. Open both doors to the outer lab. If you're in the outer lab and then a cutscene (can be any one of them) occurs, the Purple Tentacle won't run after you and you get walk past him. To easily trigger a cutscene, either ring the doorbell (can only be done if Ed didn't get his package yet), switch to the kid outside the lab and run in there before Ed notices the doorbell's been rung. Or, if you have Jeff and/or Bernard have them fix the phone, call Edna, and before she answers it, switch to the kid outside the lab and go in quickly.

Release date:

1988

Developer:

Lucasfilm Games

Publisher:

Jaleco Ltd.

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