Maniac Mansion description
The first game from LucasArts (then LucasFilm Games). The founder of a genre. Milestone. And the film category "B", of dubious quality television series and a bunch of remakes.
Main menu Main Screen note the different text font and cursor.
So, in the American heartland falls meteorite. It would seem that the event is quite ordinary for the American Outback - but there it was! He falls very convenient - right next to the house inherited by a Mad Scientist (tm) Dr. Fred Edison. And after many many years, the house acquires a bad reputation, and when its inhabitants kidnapped girlfriend of The Main Instigators of the local school, GPA collects... ban - that is, a team of brave souls willing to go with him to rescue her from the dungeons. Or the torture chamber? Susten... in General, from the full Vorovskogo.
Introduction Introduction and the title The beginning Front door
We are free to choose in the beginning of the game, any two partners of the proposed six - each of them has its own characteristics and abilities that in one way or another affect your approach to the passing game. The game result has several possible endings, a small bunch of alternative solutions for some moments, and, most exciting, current world record speed of its passage is about nine-plus minutes for the PC version, and seven with a tail to the NES version (yeah, it's the only quest Lucas, ported to the "Dandy"! With the significant changes that leads to such divergence).
The Crazy Doctor The Normal Kitchen
In itself it is revolutionary - in addition to nonlinearity and purely mouse control, it is also able to boast of the invention of a system of push-button interface is annoying (and permanent at that time) Serovskij "of ugadec" text-you have a set of actions that you can try to apply to any active object on the screen. And to check the activity of the objects is quite simple - click "what's this?" and hover the cursor over the object. Active will be highlighted! In future games on this engine (SCUMM - Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion!) this will happen automatically, so if you are in poor health and/or afraid of pixel hunting, please contact any of the remakes of the game.
The gameplay, scenery, humor, and a separate plot of props - a bunch of parodies and direct incarnations of horror movies and various trash film category "B": suffice it to say that the NES edition of the game was pretty pazzensutra, from the walls, cleaned the bloodstains from the game removed the ability to blow up the hamster in the microwave (try it, the game will be over worth it), and posters with half-naked girls too. And mutant tentacles (plenty of whom devoted the second part of the game Day of the Tentacle), the indulgence with chainsaws, homegrown spaceships and... well, okay, so you have enough spoilers.
And yet there is a mad, mad, mad splash music. And - wait, why are you still reading this text? You were supposed to run away to play!
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Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com