Maniac Mansion IBM PC 1988-89
LucasFilm Games released Maniac Mansion for IBM PC MS-DOS 2.0 in March of 1988. The graphically enhanced version of Maniac Mansion was released in December of 1989 for IBM PC only.
LucasFilm Games released the original Commodore 64 version of Maniac Mansion in 1987. C64 Maniac Mansion was programmed by Aric Wilmunder and Ron Gilbert, designed by Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, scripted and written by Ron Gilbert and Gary Fox, drawn and animated by Gary Winnick and composed by Chris Grigg and David Lawrence. IBM sounds were generated by Dave Warhol and David Hayes.
In Maniac Mansion players assume the role of David Miller, who, along with his friends, explores the mansion of the mad scientist, Dr. Fred, in search of his girlfriend, Sandy Pantz, who has been kidnapped.
PC Maniac Mansion commonly displays in 4-color CGA or 16-color MCGA, Tandy and EGA 320x200. In-game, the display mode is toggleable with shift + various keys. Maniac Mansion also supports "snap scrolling" for systems that cannot handle its screen-scrolling.
Maniac Mansion of 1987 on the Commodore 64 was technically the first SCUMM-engine game as they came to be designed though LucasFilm Games' Labyrinth of 1986 is precursor to the SCUMM-engine and Maniac Mansion's predecessor. For example, the big-headed cartoon sprite designs are of Labyrinth origin.
SCUMM stands for Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion. The SCUMM engine was developed due to the complexity of Maniac Mansion's scene-interactions, which were too tedious to code in 6502 assembly. LucasFilm needed a scripting engine to speed up their adventure-game development cycles, and SCUMM was the answer.
Maniac Mansion was the first graphics adventure game to employ plot-furnishing cutscene cinematization (a Ron Gilbert "innovation").
Maniac Mansion's successor is Zak McKracken of 1988.
Maniac Mansion employs 15 verbs, three characters to switch between and a scrollable, list-based inventory. The original versions of Maniac Mansion are not mouse-controlled, but rather keyboard driven via cursor-keys and hotkeys. The on-screen cursor is driven by the cursor-keys, not mouse.
PC Maniac Mansion was distributed on 1x 5.25" 360kB floppy disk or 1x 3.5" 720kB DS DD diskette. The hard disk drive install size is 400 kbytes (55 files).
The Enhanced version of PC Maniac Mansion was distributed on 1x 3.5" 720kB DS DD diskette. The hard disk drive install size is 740 kbytes (55 files).
Both PC versions of Maniac Mansion are installed to hard disk drive via copy *.*.
- Maniac Mansion Manual: 5 pages
- Maniac Mansion Hint Book: 47 pages
- Maniac Mansion copy protection: Nuke'm Alarms: 7 sections
- Maniac Mansion Poster
Day of the Tentacle IBM PC 1993
LucasArts released Maniac Mansion 2: Day of the Tentacle for IBM PC MS-DOS in June of 1993.
In Day of the Tentacle players can switch between controlling Bernard, Hoagie and Laverne. Bernard is the computer geek, Hoagie is a heavy metal roadie and Laverne is a medical student.
Set five years after Maniac Mansion, the trio must save Green Tentacle and thwart the World Domination plans of the Purple Tentacle super-genius, created by Doctor Fred Edison.
Day of the Tentacle was written and designed by Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer, lead-drawn by Peter Chan, lead-animated and character-designed by Larry Ahern and composed by Clint Bajakian, Peter McConnell and Micheal Z. Land.
Day of the Tentacle displays in 256-color VGA 320x200. DotT features very high-quality animations, character designs and backdrops, but it does not feature smooth screen-scrolling and its active drawspace is only 320x144.
Day of the Tentacle music supports Internal Speaker, Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro, Roland MT-32 and General MIDI. Day of the Tentacle digitized speech supports Sound Blaster and Sound Blaster Pro.
Day of the Tentacle requires 570K of free conventional memory and can address 2 megs of EMS memory.
Day of the Tentacle controls support keyboard, joystick and keyboard and mouse and keyboard.
Day of the Tentacle was distributed on 6x 3.5" 1.44MB HD diskettes or 1x CD-ROM and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via custom installer. The install size of the diskette version is 14 megs and consists of 64 files.
Day of the Tentacle Manual: 8 pages
Day of the Tentacle Hint Book: 40 pages
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