Maniac Mansion
Maniac Mansion is a 1987 graphic adventure video game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games. It follows teenage protagonist Dave Miller as he tries to save his girlfriend from a mad scientist whose mind has been enslaved by a sentient meteor. The player controls Dave and two of his six playable friends via mouse clicks through the scientist's mansion while solving puzzles and dodging dangers. The gameplay is non-linear and the game must be completed in different ways depending on which characters the player chooses. Maniac Mansion was originally released for the Commodore 64 and the Apple II, and was Lucasfilm Games' first self-published product.
Story
The game takes place in the mansion of the fictional Edison family: Dr. Fred, a mad scientist, Nurse Edna, his wife, and their son Weird Ed. Living with the Edisons are two large, disembodied tentacles, one purple and the other green. The introductory sequence shows that twenty years earlier a sentient meteor crashed near the mansion, brainwashing the Edisons and instructing Dr. Fred to obtain human brains for his experiments. The game begins as Dave Miller prepares to enter the mansion to rescue his girlfriend Sandy Pantz, who has been kidnapped by Dr. Fred. With the exception of the green tentacle, the inhabitants of the mansion are hostile and throw the player characters into the dungeon or, in some situations, kill them when they see them. When a character dies, the player must choose a replacement from the unselected characters; and the game ends when all characters have been killed. Maniac Mansion has five possible endings, depending on which characters are selected, which survive and what the characters achieve.
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