First published at 05:32 UTC on April 9th, 2022.
A point & click adventure game by LucasFilm Games (LucasArts), first published in 1987. It was the first game ever to be developed using the S.C.U.M.M. engine. This video contains unboxing of the Amiga version released in 1989, a review, trivia …
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A point & click adventure game by LucasFilm Games (LucasArts), first published in 1987. It was the first game ever to be developed using the S.C.U.M.M. engine. This video contains unboxing of the Amiga version released in 1989, a review, trivia and versions comparison among the Amiga 500, Atari 1040 ST, IBM PC, Commodore 64, Apple 2 and Nintendo NES featuring CRT Capture when on real hardware and video export on emulators.
REM *** CONTENTS ***
00:00 Introduction
00:20 Box cover and Game overview
01:55 Unboxing and Review
06:06 Trivia
09:49 The Commodore version of 1987
10:28 The IBM PC version 1 of 1988
11:18 The Japanese Nintendo NES version of 1988
11:49 The Amiga and Atari ST versions of 1989
12:30 The IBM PC enhanced version of 1989
13:08 The English Nintendo NES version version of 1990
13:50 Side by Side Versions' Comparison
18:01 Epilogue
REM *** User's Memories ***
I'd seen some screenshots of this one on Pixel magazine in the 80s, but never read a review. So, I though it was a horror game because of the name. I'd also seen the box at a computer store from a distance and got the same impression. In around '93-'94 I finally bought it and when I took it home and took a better look at the cover, I noticed that it looked more like a teenager movie. I didn't like the idea initially, not being what I was expecting, but after opening the box and seeing the huge bulletin board poster, I immediately got into the teenager movie mood and forgot all about my horror game expectations.
Maniac Mansion was really something! One of the best graphics adventures I've ever played. I also liked the nuclear bomb alarm joke as, coming from a military family, I was obsessed with nukes during the Cold War. I used to watch lots of documentaries, read books on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and live in constant fear of a nuclear blast since I was around five years old! :-)
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