S2E14 | Video Game: Maniac Mansion
Episode description
Only the cleverest SCUMM could solve these puzzles! Grab two of your iconic friends - Bernard, Jeff, Michael, Razor, Syd, or Wendy - and boldly enter the kooky Edison Mansion to save your ensnared girlfriend, Sandy Pantz! We’re headed back to 1987 to explore the cult classic video game from LucasFilm Games, Maniac Mansion. This game is full of iconic music, foundation-building game systems, and enough creative twists, turns, and cyphers to make you wonder, “did a dastardly meteor and two unlikely tentacles write this thing?!” Let's step inside and see the world of point-and-click adventures this game and many of its offspring have given us. Support the show by tossing us some lunch money at ko-fi.com/80shighpodcast. Write an 80's inspired note when you do, and we'll share it on the show!
-- Can I Borrow Your Notes? --
- Maniac Mansion: The classic graphic adventure game (Classic Gaming)
- The Untold Story of Maniac Mansion: For Nintendo, the baddest bad word is kill (Wired)
- Why Adventure Games Suck And What We Can Do About It (Grumpy Gamer)
- Universal Hint System
- Thimbleweed Park
-- Teacher's Pets --
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- Theme song by Greg Reed at gregreedmusic.com
- Cover art by Alex Goddard at alexgoddarddesign.com