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 attempts to rescue his girlfriend from a mad scientist, whose…
Maniac Mansion is an adventure developed by Lucasfilm Games, released 1 October 1987 on Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST/STE and Commodore C64/128/MAX. The main story takes about 3 hrs to finish.
What Maniac Mansion is
Maniac Mansion is an adventure game developed by Lucasfilm Games and released in 1987. It is available on Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on SCUMM.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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 intro sequence shows that a sentient meteor crashed near the mansion twenty years earlier; it brainwashed the Edisons and directed Dr. Fred to obtain human brains for use in experiments. The game begins as Dave Miller prepares to enter the mansion to rescue his girlfriend, Sandy Pantz, who had been kidnapped by Dr. Fred. With the exception of the green tentacle, the mansion's inhabitants are hostile, and will throw the player characters into the…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy, fantasy, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Maniac Mansion holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1987 averaged 72, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 87, across 138 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1 GHz, 256 MB RAM and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Maniac Mansion launched on 1 October 1987, within three weeks of International Karate + and Time Soldiers. It reviewed better than 1 of the 2.
Released around the same time: International Karate +, Time Soldiers.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Maniac Mansion yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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