Maniac Mansion (NES) Playthrough
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2022
- A playthrough of Jaleco's 1990 point-and-click adventure for the NES, Maniac Mansion.
Here are a few time stamps for your convenience:
1:27 Playthrough #1 w/Dave, Razor, and Jeff
1:04:27 (normal ending, everyone survives)
24:09 Alternate ending (nuclear explosion)
1:09:40 Alternate ending (plant)
1:22:01 Alternate ending (everyone dies)
1:31:03 Playthrough #2 w/Dave, Michael, and Syd (Michael's path. Dave dies)
2:07:17 Playthrough #3 w/Dave, Bernard, and Wendy (Bernard's ending)
2:51:12 Alternate ending (Wendy's ending w/Sandy and police)
The Edison family was enslaved by a sentient evil purple meteor that crash landed in their yard twenty years ago. They now spend their days performing experiments on human brains at its behest, so when local girl Sandy becomes their latest test subject and victim, her boyfriend Dave assembles a group of friends to help him storm the mansion and get her back.
Maniac Mansion started out as a 1987 computer game from Lucasfilm Games. It combined the object-oriented puzzle solving of King's Quest with the cursor-driven interface of the MacVenture games, but it shifted the focus to the story and its characters by introducing a slew of innovations that revitalized the stagnating adventure genre. And perhaps most importantly, it was cool.
Maniac Mansion starts by asking you to choose who will accompany Dave on his adventure. The friends have unique skills that they can use to solve puzzles, and they'll have to combine skillsets if their going to survive long enough to maneuver their way past mad scientist Dr. Fred, his sex-fiend wife Nurse Edna, their socially awkward son Weird Ed, and the family's moist, squelchy pets, Green Tentacle and Purple Tentacle.
Since the makeup of your party will decide your path through the game, there are several ways to solve Maniac Mansion. The choices include:
-Bernard is a nerd with technical expertise (and who would eventually become a starring character in the sequel). He has a knack for fixing radios and phones.
-Syd and Razor are rockers that play a mean piano.
-Michael is a photographer for his college's paper and knows how to develop film.
-Wendy is a talented writer who aspires to one day become a novelist.
-Jeff is burnout surfer who also knows how to fix radios.
The puzzles are creative but logical, the cast is as funny as it is eccentric, and in spite Nintendo's best efforts at censorship, the game's tone and humor are refreshingly edgy and adult for an NES title.
In fact, the entire game translates incredibly well to the NES. The control scheme has been nicely adapted, the redrawn graphics are appealing and move about smoothly, the soundtrack is thoroughly excellent, and the game runs much faster thanks to the massively reduced loading times.
The game was a huge success for Lucasfilm Games and for its creators, Ron Gilbert and Dave Winnick, and in my mind, the NES port trumps any other point-and-click adventure on the console. Shadowgate, King's Quest V, Linus Spacehead, and Nightshade were all good, but none of them can match this masterpiece in the 8-bit console space.
If you liked Maniac Mansion, you should also check out its excellent sequel, Day of the Tentacle: • Day of the Tentacle (P...
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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One of the best games of all time
Was gonna say: Classic, one of the best - then read this comment.
I detect no lies here
Comment of the month! This game still holds up
Absolute best!!! I was super hooked
So agree
I got this game as a birthday gift when I was a kid. At first I thought it was a strange game but it ended up being one of my favorite NES games.
I now see that I was no where near beating this game as a kid. This game was terrifying to me.
Me too idk why but i was scared of this game
This game was my intro to point-and-click adventures. Mad Magazine was my intro to goofy weirdness, so this game fit right in. :)
EDIT: The soundtrack is still kickass.
Can't put into words how much I love this game. Had the immense pleasure of meeting The Fatman himself, George Sanger about 20 or so years ago, and got to let him know how much I loved the soundtrack. All around one of the best games ever made.
That's awesome! I never met him but he had a brief conversation with me in the comments of one of his covers here on UA-cam just days ago. I knew of him but had no idea that he actually co-wrote the soundtrack, it felt great to let him know how much of a presence it had in my life.
@@MiketheratguyMultimedia He's a super nice guy, too. He pulled out a chair into the middle of an aisle and just started playing guitar.
NC out here killin it again! This game was IMPOSSIBLE as a kid!! Well done!
Tyvm! Yeah, as a kid I never would have gotten through it without all the tips from Nintendo Power.
THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE GAMES OF ALL TIME. I still own an orignal copy for my old-ass NES.
We all put the hamster in the microwave
Maniac Mansion is a fantastic point-and-click adventure on the NES, and what other game allows you to microwave a hamster?
Such an amazing game. When I was in high school we had a really friendly cafeteria lady named Shirley at our school. She would call us all “Dearie” - “What would you like to eat Dearie?” so in my head I would think to myself “Does she play Maniac Mansion?” (1:34:01). Awesome
"Rock Star Ate My Hamster." It's a funky name for a computer game. I wonder if that started from here.
Another classic I didn't get to play back when it was new, and trying to play the sequel at my aunt's house on PC always crashed. IIRC, one of the characters says, "Don't be a tuna head!" in this. They don't make 'em like they used to!
It's funny because in the PAL version, they removed the ability to microwave Ed's hamster. Meaning Nintendo of America was completely unaware of the fact that the devs somehow snuck _that_ in alongside every change that was made in order to meet their standards.
I would bet ANYTHING that there are now at least eighteen hundred indie games "inspired by" games like this that do, indeed, in a dead tired reference to this game that everyone played, allow you to microwave a hamster.
This was the RE of the NES days. Scared the shit out of me
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Same here, I'd freak out every time I saw one of the Edisons chasing me
I still have this on my shelf, complete like new, my copy from 1994, one of my all time favorite games. The nostalgia with this one is strong.
This game is one of the big ones. It had a major influence on my burgeoning taste at the time and really captured my imagination. I rented this one a lot and played and replayed the hell out of it when I first discovered emulation. And to contradict a ton of the comments here, NONE of us Nintendo kids knew a thing about how this was censored from an original version. We liked it for what it was because we didn't know any better and it was all we had. Reading some of these comments, you can really tell the difference between kids who have benefited from the 20/20 Wikipedia-vision and adults who were actually there. Information doesn't equal experience and nobody is impressed by trivia.
This game is a pure classic and legendary. So much replayabily with the amounr of characters you can play as. Dave's and razor's theme also kicks ass!
Yesssss my favorite growing up!!!!
lol....We meet again, corndog dude
The theme where the tentacle shows up sounds so similar to The Simpsons.
One of my favorite games of all time!
I sent the tentacle mating call recording to Mark Eteer and watched his glasses get shattered.
10/10 would break window again :)
God I loved this game (and music) as a 5-8 year old. Still have my old cartridge and will have to break this out again soon. Deja Vu was a big fave too.
Deja Vu was the shit.
I loved to ring the bell and run
I love this game, and i still play it. love the music.
My brothers and I would play this a lot as kids. We often got games from lots at this auctions my parents went to every week, and sometimes they'd have boxes with mixed stuff in it, and occasionally they had Nintendo games in them. So every once in a while we'd luck out. It's how I got acquainted with gems like Nightshade, Mega Man 2 and 3, Maniac mansion, Superman, and River City Ransom.
2:43:37 - That moment right there, when you open the door using the combination of 0000 has to be one of the proudest moments in gaming for me, and I wasn't even playing. You see, I was a still very young, and I really wasn't capable of playing this effectively. I could only mimic things I saw my brothers do and not get far doing even that. Shit, I had to be like 6 or 7. But my eldest brother would play, and as long as HE had to think about it, and I could just concentrate on watching, I understood the story and why we had to do certain things only after he did them in the game. He was in his teens and was way more age appropriate for the thinking level required.
Often, I could tell that he was bothered by me always following him around or watching him play, but I just wished that I could play that well and I was just happy watching.
Anyway, one day when he got to that dungeon, for whatever reason, he didn't know the code. He didn't know how to get it, we didnt have the guide because it was from a box we got at an auction. And often I would say suggestions that he'd just ignore because truly they probably were just nonsense. But I was just trying to put 2 and 2 together. And I don't know what was going through my kid mind, but I told him "try all zeros", and the door clicked and opened. And I'll never forget as long as I live, my brother turned his head towards me really fast and he had this really serious, and almost confused look, and he had like this slight gleam and subtle smirk on his face. I felt so proud, like I personally saved the day and I helped him solve everything LMAO Even thinking about it now, I get teary eyed as I laugh because it just such a random thing that happened and I still carry with me til this day - How just a random little stroke of luck made me feel so important and included in this long story that I would sit through, even when I didnt feel welcome 😁😁 Its sounds dumb, but I also laugh when I think about the fact that things were way different after that 😆😆 He would actually take my dumb little suggestions seriously.
Eventually I got older and we played streets of rage 2 together. We eventually "crossed the line" 😆😆 that means I beat him in street fighter. And then life happened. We haven't talked in 2 years since out other brother passed. But when I think of Maniac Mansion, I always remember how I slipped in at the last for the hail Mary save ✊🏼
Great video! So glad you didn't skip the cut scenes - at least / especially the cut scene at around 9m45s. The music, dialogue, timing ... 'composition' of that cut scene, are just excellent.
Such an excellent job, especially with the capabilities of the hardware and software available. I've always loved that cut scene!
Thank you for posting this. I was trying to remember this awesome nes game I played back in the day!
I used to play this version back in the day and loved Razor's theme. Later I played an anniversary fan made game that was more based on the PC port and was disappointed none of the kids had their own theme.
This is high on my list of favorite games of all time. I played it on my friend's Apple IIe when I was about 10 or 11 and was thrilled when I learned that it was coming to the NES. It was my major Christmas gift of 1990. Great memories.
Now we need a longplay of _Night of the Tentacle._
This? ua-cam.com/video/-fOMmblXgjw/v-deo.html
Great game thanks for the upload! 😊
Despite the censorship this version of the game has, I really like it. It's a lot faster than the original C64 version and the music is pretty good too.
I remember being so impressed that she answered the door in real-time
Another classic adventure game by Lucasfilm/LucasArts! This was a must-own on your PC in the 90s as one of the most influential and iconic point-and-clicks ever made. To this day, it's still very enjoyable, the puzzles, humor and multiple endings (depending on which characters you choose) sustain its longevity in adventure gaming.
Still impressive how much "game" they made with such small file sizes to work with.
Do you wish there was a remake that allows all the characters to appear/participate in the story?
I thought you had played this before! I’m stoked this is a huge part of my childhood!
Also, you picked JEFF?! Y Tho 😂
I did, but this one shows all the different paths and endings and with much better video quality. Lol Jeff is totally useless, isn't he?
@@NintendoComplete I can’t remember where I saw it but someone did a video talking about the different people you can choose and yeah, Jeff is pretty much useless lol
@@mortithedog8088 he can fix phones, which is still one more thing than Dave can do. Just sayin...
@@popecorkyI Bernard can do that though. And other things 🤷🏻♀️
@@mortithedog8088 my point is Dave is just plain useless, much more so then Jeff, who can at least do something...altho, not s good as Bernard, who can fix phones, radios and wiring...which is why I always pick Bernard...and usually kill off Dave...
Sweet years......
THis game was so odd
I never did finish it, getting as far as giving the monster a thing of wax fruit I think
still a ways to go buddy. dont give up its worth it
I loved this game as a kid and i still love it as an adult.
I wish i understood this game as a kid. I still enjoyed it mostly because of the music
This game and Earthbound had some of the best game soundtracks of all time
Ayyye just streamed this myself. Cheers man!!!
always will be in my top ten games of all time
Finally!!! My fav!
Good game. 👍
Outstanding video.
Wasn't this a TV show on the USA Network?
Yes. It was terrible.
@@Dorian_Scott USA Network I always called the TV graveyard
The graphics on the PC version were better, but the nes version had way better music
NES music it’s the best of ever made ❤️
Time to go… back to the mansion! -bernard
Awesome.
Omg I remember this game!! I never beat it tho lol
Wow, I didn't realize Lucasfilm had a hand in this. It didn't matter when I was a small kid at the time.
This was “nerd cool” before that existed.
I still own it and it's the one where the hamster EXPLODES!
Mental game
Finally this game was so fun but hard lol
bought n played 1991 but expected lots of more as advertised!
This playthrough is exactly 03 hours: 10 minutes: and 36 seconds long!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The red button was the best!!!!
So when I was 10 I had this game and remember the TV show somewhat but was it true that you had to watch a certain part of the show to get past a certain part of this game I never was able to beat it
Yeah I never beat the game.came here for the nostalgia. My stupid 6 year old brain could never get too far in this
Man, Razor's a sadist huh?
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Please port this over to SWITCH!!!
The secret lab door ia on the inteuders priaon genious ...
is this offical nes game?
NintendoComplete, today is my birthday again, I was born on October 9th, 2004 and do you know what does this means?
There is a alternate ending Easter egg where sid and wendy make a porn video with several items around the house and send it to the TV guy who in turns ask for a 3 way
No there is not
nice Nintendo
Can bê a clássica, can bê Fun, but dont have sense
La música te vuelve loco, mejor apagarla 😅
Better on pc games
I couldn’t even get into the mansion, luckily I didn’t actually spend money on this game
by having played the Amiga 500 port first, i can say that the music hurt the atmosphere of this game. It's too loud and annoying/intrusive.
The game lets you disable it by turning off the CD player in your inventory.
@@NintendoComplete Yup, I personally really loved that they made it a 'seamless' interface in that way. I.e., it wasn't just some menu disconnected from "inside the game", it was actually "instantiated" in the game in that way.
Of course, I happened to really like the music in this game and didn't have the experience ChaNo wrote about. But, I can absolutely understand and identify with that experience - playing a port of a game and feeling like it wasn't as good in some way due to changes, so, I empathize for sure.
This is some of the worst gaming music I’ve ever heard
The TV guy looks like Saúl Godman…
The TV guy looks like Saúl Godman…