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Episode 35
Maniac Mansion is one of the most ambitious Adventure games ever made for the NES! There are 7 different characters you can play as, and just as many different endings!
So how did this PC game make its way to the NES, and what "offensive" things did Nintendo insist on censoring? In today's episode, we'll find out!
Unlike some other point-and-click adventure games, Maniac Mansion is one where you can definitely mess up so badly that you'll have to start the game over from the beginning. Some of the puzzles are extremely devious, but after watching this video, you'll be an expert! We'll learn:
* What are ALL of the important items? Which can be avoided?
* How to complete the game with ANY characters!
* Fun ways to blow up the house or kill off your characters!
* The SECRET trick to lock Nurse Edna in place!
* How to haunt the Mansion as an INVISIBLE GHOST!
* The EASY way to escape the dungeon!
* How to get EVERY ENDING, even the one that requires a very specific combination of characters!
* House Key, Silver Key, Yellow Key, Card Key, Glowing Key, Rusty Key, Small Key - EVERY KEY and what it opens!
* The SHORCUT to completing the game's final puzzle!
* The secret way to KILL the EVIL METEOR instead of just sending it to space... AND MORE!
Thanks for watching!
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This channel basically puts out the equivalent of Saturday morning cartoons for 35+ yr olds 💕💕💕
Lol- yeap...and way better than "Starcade" or "The Video Game", the TV shows of the time that tried to take advantage of the video game popularity of the time.
^THIS. Along with Chrontendo.
@@Rockstago agreed.
I do enjoy the channels "SNESDrunk" and "Sega Lord X" as well. They're mainly software and hardware reviews and dives - one for SNES and the other includes all Sega systems and arcade boards - but they're both great content creators at the type of content they create. Snesdrunk is a bit more short form style videos, but I certainly think they're both worth checking out
I’m 41 and I approve this message.
Fair enough
Based on the opening, I like to believe you're just doing the voice-over, and the dog is providing the gameplay footage.
@Craig Adams I always knew golden retrievers were an exceptional breed, but wow, that's next-level.
What if told you I'm actually K9? Well we'll learn all that today.. AND MORE.
For sure- I think that Golden Retriever is unstoppable with an NES Advantage!
Notice how he says we instead of I when talking
That is a plausible statement, and it is possible that these Nintendo game walkthroughs are provided by the doggy.
I'll tell you all a quick story. This is a true story. Once upon a time (roughly a little more than a decade ago) in a part of Toronto, Ontario, where I'm from, there lived a fellow that ran for the office of city councilor in the beaches area of East York! He ran for that office with a little twist, he put a picture of his dog's face as the candidate! No word of a lie. Amazingly, he almost won too! 😁😂🤣
Many folks enjoyed the idea of an actual dog in city council or at least of it representing an office in it, but the only reason why he or the dog didn't win the seat, was just because the candidate that won, ran a much better campaign!
They really crammed a lot of content into that cartridge.
Its pretty crazy what they could do with 256kb of data. Nowadays we are very wasteful with data space. A small text file is the same size as an entire NES game.
it's all basically if then statements and while loops
@@cadeanderson422 Your comment is so dumb it's silly. You clearly have NO idea what you're talking about.
A 100kb text file will always be a 100kb text file. No matter when it was made.
But yes, people are very "wasteful" (your incorrect term, not mine) because you kids need your texts to be in HD quality with shit emotes. Instead of 5kb text which works just fine.
Every text on every phone could be the smallest fraction of kb... But kids these days cry like babies if they don't have HD.
Meanwhile, people are still making NES 256kb NES games, AND they are able to do so much MORE than developers could in the 80s. The 256kb games made now look even better than the original ones.
Get a clue, kid.
@@28Pluto someone sure is bitter. Who hurt you? 😂
@@28Pluto Having a bad day, were we?
"You'll want to turn on the red light. It's not Roxanne though."
Lol, those days are over. She's doesn't have to sell her body to the night.
@Brian Babin r/woooosh
@@iami3rian394 maybe he was just being sarcastic and he actually got the joke!?
@@Hellwyck I mean, anything is possible.
Years later, she's still walking the streets for money, whether it's wrong or if it's right
The right?
This Saturday upload is great it makes me feel like a kid again.
😁 Thanks!!
"Dave has no special abilities"
I think his theme music would beg to differ
My favorite NES game ever. I played it many many times.. legit runs, glitched runs, using Custom Game Genie Codes & playing as the Villians. This game just hooked me.
that would be cool to play as Weird Ed or Nurse Edna. Sounds fun!
@@UCanBeatVideoGames Weird Ed & Edna works the best, but you got to swap due to ed not being able to walk through the security door.
@@RetroCheats I remember seeing that video. They even use their own theme. About the characters that can only be played with the Game Genie, do all of them have their own themes?
@Lets Play Minecraft I'm suprised it still works. My mother has opened a locker that seems like it had not been opened in years, and an Excite Bike game for NES was found in there. When I was trying to start it up, it seems like it does not work. When I looked from under it, it seems ruined.
@@bennel3588 weird ed has his own music. Don't remember the rest
One of the most memorable games from my childhood. Always wished there was an official remake on modern consoles, but Thimbleweed Park is a fantastic spiritual successor!
It’s on steam and online.
agreed
You’re doing life right my friend
This is one of those old NES games I get super nostalgic for. I was terrible at it as a kid, but I loved Maniac Mansion
In the PC version, when Syd takes the exploded hamster out of the microwave, he says, "Shall I take white meat or dark meat?"
I never played the PC version, but the NES version has a hidden bit. If you have Bernard pick up the Exploded Hamster, he'll comment "I'm glad I wore my pocket protector!"
This channel always does a EXTREMELY thorough review/ playthrough of games. But on this one, he REALLY went above & beyond to show ALL of the optional & unique facets of Maniac Mansion- requiring 4X+ the time & effort. Thank you! We really appreciate him showing all the storylines on the NES's most cryptic title.
Thank you!! This one really did take some extra effort
@@UCanBeatVideoGames: Pressing a big red button blows something up?!? Please, for the love of 8-Bit/16-Bit/80s/90s video games, keep Dee Dee from Dexter's Laboratory *AWAY* from that pool!!!
@@UCanBeatVideoGames:
*You:* "When characters die in this game, they're dead permanently"
*Me:* "Well, yeah, because as a reflection on reality, since people die permanently IRL.... Or do they?? Reincarnation?? Anyone??"
I've replayed MM for decades and never knew you could feed the meteor to the plant. Or about the special Bernard-Wendy ending. Thanks!
The steel security door was where you'd have to do the manual lookup anti-piracy check on pc (and probably amiga). That's why it just open on the NES version.
I remember the numerous door codes to get to the top floor were printed on special paper that was impossible to photocopy...
@@k1dn1ce76 I remember the DOS Castlevania had black text on dark, blood red paper. Forget photocopying, I couldn't read the damn thing on the legit copy.
There's a hidden keypad in the hallway just behind it (near the base of the wall where the tastefully nude statue was removed), presumably meant to be the one for the door. But since the "security symbol" keypad doesn't exist in-game, it uses the same "numeric" one everywhere else. There's no code that it'll accept as valid and since there's no penalty for using any the legitimate keypads with the wrong code, there's no way to cancel, meaning the moment you select "Use Keypad", you're doomed.
The keypad apparently does have a valid code but you need a memory viewer to find it and you’ll probably never guess it. Since the copy protection was disconnected from the door, all entering correct code does is stop the countdown timer and the house from exploding.
Yes, they had the same security paper for the first simcity black on dark red
This channels brilliant. A mini doc followed by a complete walkthrough on each title. Who knew the dad from American Pie won an Emmy?!
What an awesome game, so many great memories. I had Michael's music as my cellphone ringtone for the longest time...
Thanks for the video and I dig your Golden...they are the best dogs
Man I LOVE Michael’s theme..
Aww thanks! He's a really good boy!
Love this game! I loved this so much, that i actually taught myself Dave's theme on guitar when i was a teenager and I hum it often at work. So many great memories
This is my favorite game ever for the NES. I love the theme of it being like a 1950s horror/sci-fi movie. So cool you showed all different endings and ways to die. There's also a bit where you can send a cassette recording of the high pitched noise to Mark Eeter and it shatters his window. Great video!
I was just going to post this lol. It's too funny. Sad that he didn't show it. But he did show some things I never saw before.
Even though I could barely read or even knew what I was doing in this game... if my local video store didn't have Ninja Gaiden or Mega Man 2 or 3, I would ALWAYS choose Maniac Mansion or Ice Hockey lol.
I love stories like these. Renting games as a kid was so exciting
@@UCanBeatVideoGames Good old days! My favorite video store was a mom/pop gas station that tripled as a mini grocery, game room in the back, but the biggest area was the video store section. The floors were warped, ceilings were cigarette stained, lights were dim, old 70's/early 80's wood paneling walls, and if a movie/game hadn't been rented in a while, it had dust on it lol. That was favorite one to go to though! It was even better than Blockbuster (mostly for the nostalgia feeling). I went back there a few years ago and somebody bought it and turned it into a restaurant and rebuilt the interior from the floor up and EVERYTHING was modernized... it was kind of depressing seeing it that way but I ordered some food and a couple beers anyway. I never went back though.
Maniac Mansion *still* fills me with this soaring sense of nostalgic adventure like anything is possible when you're playing it.
This was so amazing. Maniac Mansion and The Legend of Zelda are the first games I played and got super into when I was kid. And IDK why but I swear once or twice a year I just randomly recall this game. Today that happened and I was like oh I wonder if people still play or remember that game. So I looked for it on youtube and found this. What a gem!
Yes, in 46, the game randomly pops into my head every year, or other. Spooky stuff drives deep within you I guess .
Bark...Bark Bark Bark... Bark Bark Bark... Mew
I need Wendy. My editor tends to give me suggestions like, "Don't make your main character Jewish," "The demon should talk about Donald Trump," "Twenty feet sounds like too long range for a shotgun," and "Didn't Rick Riordan create Hades? Don't use copyrighted characters.""
🤣🤣🤣 And she works for FREE!
You need *anyone* but your editor.
@@cnkclark I'll be fair: 99% of the editor suggestions are fantastic, it's the 1% that are ludicrous.
I played this on PC back in the early 90's. There was no music other than the opening theme. (and on IBM 286 the theme song was fucking BANGING)
The silence other than your character's footsteps, or the ticking of the grandfather clock was IMO integral to the mood. It made the house way more scary.
One of the best games ever made. The soundtrack by George "The Fatman" Sanger and David Hayes just made it even better.
Totally agree!!
That soundtrack is MONEY.
Even though I prefer the graphics of the improved PC version, the soundtrack of the NES port pretty much makes that version the definitive one for me.
Actually it is called David Lawrence, and yes, the soundtrack is one of the best ever made for the NES!
Yes!!! The soundtrack is everything!! Can still hear it in my head randomly to this day.
You're rad, your dog is rad. You'll have millions of subs eventually dude.
Thanks man, I hope so!!
@@UCanBeatVideoGames you’ll make it beyond that for sure. It’s just a matter of time. Keep doing what you do.
But no rad racer?!
Thank you for demonstrating this game so thoroughly. It feels like the mansion is really alive, with all the real-time events that take place throughout. :)
I can't even imagine being thrown into this game in the 80's and being able to figure it all out. There's just a mind boggling number of things that can an has to be done in specific combinations. Items that have to be gained and used together with other items in specific times and certain situations... holy crap.
I remember getting a lot of info from the "Counselor's Corner" section of Nintendo Power. As a kid I beat the game with Michael - you don't have to mail anything, and his solution felt the most intuitive to me.
Now image playing it for the Commodore 64, where every room needs to load, taking upwards of 30 seconds any time you want to go to a new area. To be fair, the C64 version of this game had better graphics and was uncensored, but that loading time was hell.
There were a lot of games like that, where you have to just figure things out. Don't discount the usefulness of schoolyard discussions about these things either.
@@SireSquish Exactly. I'm from the NES/Myst/King's Quest generation where finding and conspiring with other gamers was a really useful resource. It wasn't uncommon to spend an entire birthday sleepover with like ten kids all offering their know-how to beat the first Zelda.
We played this game a thousand times and it wasn't a heavily covered topic in magz. Aiaiai
I always found it awesome that you could kill a character, yet still move them around.
"The purple tentacle is the artist in the family."
No, that purple slime leading to the crate belongs to the purple Meteor (who was the subject of the painting as evidenced by the circle drawn on a crate in the painting.)
Its likely Dr. Fred is the painter.
Oh, that does make sense! Good call. I suppose any of them could be the artist in that case, but Dr Fred makes sense, as I don't think anyone else would have the authority to move the Meteor.
@@UCanBeatVideoGames Not only that, but Dr Fred loves the Meteor... while Edna, Ed, and Green tentacle resent the attention Fred gives the Meteor.
That reminds me of the twins in the past of DOTT they were artists
1977?
That's when STAR WARS premiered in the movie theaters.
Thank you SO MUCH for covering one of the games I've requested in the past! Can't wait to see you cover other classics! You're the best thing to happen to Saturday mornings since cartoons! Keep up the great work!!!
Totally agree. These reviews are amazing & this guy has some SERIOUS skillz!
I love how Dave, the "hero" of this game is useless and is best kept in the dungeon for the entire playthrough.
The amount of detail you go into with these walkthroughs are amazing.
Dave does have a special ability; he 's the loose brick pusher. Always has been. BTW the scumm language is clever enough that you can even use the key in front door without getting it first. It's a neat trick but it's rare that you can use an item like that on the same screen that you find it.
@@lefthookouchmcarm4520 You drag away the mat, select ”use” and then the key, and then select front door. It makes you open the door and get the key in one sweep, rather than first picking up the key and then using it on the door.
I'm glad that you weren't a tunahead and went ahead and showed us multiple endings.
I remember playing this game when I was a wee young lad. Played it at night in the dark in my uncles room at my Grandmas house. Which out in the middle of nowhere in the desert. Outside was nearly pitch black minus the starlight. Coyotes were howling and earlier in the night we had a big ass snake break in the house that my grandpa had to axe to death. Was supposed to go to bed but instead turned on the NES and started playing. Freaked me out so much when I got chased that first time that I didn’t touch the game again for a week.
Which is funny because there’s nothing really horror about this game.
I remember being scared as fuck by Edna the first time i saw her in the kitchen, but as time passed and played a lot more i found out that you can actually scape her if you are quickly to click on the left are of the screen and leave the kitchen.
@@feiwong3634 you can also escape Edna in the kitchen by switching to a different character for a few seconds, and then switch back to the one who was caught by her. She will be gone after switching back
"Wendy is, shall we say, 'sleeping with the fishes'." Almost made me spit out my coffee...
I loved this game. I always played as razor. I loved her background music. I played this game for hours at a time trying to figure it out. I found a walk through and was able to get a good ending after blowing the house a few times.
Dave: "What is my purpose"
Rick: "You push a brick"
Dave: "Oh my god!"
I don't know if UA-cam has some kind of awards... best New gaming channel or something this is tremendous
The pepsi can be given to the green tentacle without him taking it and satisfying his drink need. "12 FULL OUNCES, THAT'S ALOT!"
Ed can also be befriended using the hamster.
Another thing to note- moving the hamster without retrieving the card key will result in Dr. Fred receiving the key when that cutscene where he enters Ed's room would have played. Resulting you being immobilized, and even attempting to save the game will result in a message that reads "The meteor is in control and he says no saved games!"
Yup and if you find Ed's plans he will storm the lab for you!
And returning the hamster will cause him to never send you to the prison again, unless he catches you stealing something
My preferred method of looting weird Ed's room is having someone outside ring the doorbell and when he leaves to answer the door, you switch to one of the other kids and loot his room while he is gone.
makes sense! I think it only works if he doesn't have the package, but that's a totally legit way to do it!
That or just time looting his room to him answering the doorbell for when the package comes. That was another option.
I think if worse comes to worse, you can always get caught with one kid, and while that kid's being taken to the basement/dungeon, you have another kid ransack the room (and/or go through the room to another room, in the case of edna, though there's some things in her room to get as well too)
and for nurse edna you can click new kid. so, enter her room. select a new kid. and then wait a little bit. and then switch back to the kid in nurse edna's room. she be standing there but wont capture you. you can interact with her and she still wont capture you. its a glotch and not really a thoughtful strategy, but it works very well.
I always did that! it was the most intuitive way to enter his room besides when he was going to the kitchen for food.
I’ve been playing this game since forever, but I learned about the Bernard-Wendy double-secret ending only last year.
If you enter "SUPINI" in Game Genie and pick the first three characters, you can play as all three girls.
The "stunned Edna" trick also works at the very beginning of the game in the kitchen. I remember finding it out by accident. If you're quick enough switching to another kid and switch back to the kid in the kitchen, she'll be gone. I use it almost every playthrough.
Oh, that's cool! Very interesting!
You can also send a kid to the kitchen faucet and change characters, then whenever you go back to that kid it'll be scrolled over far enough to see if she's still there without the kid being close enough for her to notice. I don't generally have a "dungeon kid" so I usually do this to determine when it's safe to go to and past the fridge.
My Saturday isn't complete unless I watch "U can beat video games." This was an amazing and huge beast of a game to cover! Just wanted to say thank you for all your work and being so thorough. I appreciate the work but I'm slowly realizing I'm just here for the jokes.
There's also a secret hidden keypad that you missed in Hallway 2 (right by where the statue was removed). If you enter '0000' it'll blow up the house
I came to the comments section just to write that, here is something you miss too: there is a different port for Maniac Mansion in Japanese, I'm allways wondered what are the differences from the LucasArts version.
That’s left over copy protection from the DOS version. The door was changed to a steel security door and a keypad added that you had to use to open the door. In the NES version they disabled the check and removed the keypad graphic, but left the steel security door and keypad object (though in an odd place). Once you use the keypad, you have a fixed amount of time to enter the correct code before the house explodes. Enter the incorrect code too many times or all 0s and the house explodes. There is a correct code but it only stops the house from exploding and there’s no way to know what it is on the NES version without a memory viewer and you probably won’t guess it.
@@DavidRomigJr Does copy protection mean to stop people from copying the game?
Generally. Early copy protection was an attempt to stop unauthorized copying. Modern copy protection is more often an attempt to slow unauthorized copying down long enough for developers to realize earnings from first sales. Copy protection using pack in items can be fun. Poor copy protection can, unfortunately, make pirating a cracked copy a more positive experience.
Some games have anti-pirating screens, so if the games get pirated, they are unable to play. I was told that playing the games on a pirated machine would also give the same results. Pirate Donkey Kong Country 2 and 3, and you'll be unable to play the game. I read about Mega Man X game will go crazy if you pirated it, and then someone says that it's not an anti-pirating protection, it's a glitch. I'm not sure what to answer because when I made a post that was not correct, I got cussed out and criticized by a kind genius who knows how naughty it is to get things wrong, and getting things wrong is not a typo, it's criminal. Another reason for him criticizing me is because I been mean to everybody, so everybody has the right to criticize me. I will not report anyone who criticizes me, but I need to get reported for criminal cases I been doing.
Thanks for walking me through a game I never had. I can live vicariously through you and your dog.
Get it the PC or Amiga version and play it through ScummVM.
Holy shit!! I never knew you could feed the Meteor to the plant!! Mind Blown!!
Please do Roger Rabbit for the NES. That game honestly terrified me as a kid
I got to judge doom and couldn't beat his first form.
Roger Rabbit was GREAT! Loved that game!
Man, I spent many an hour as a kid playing Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Your videos take me back to the days when my brother worked at Nintendo of America's headquarters in Redmond WA as a Game Play Counselor. He played so many games and created many of the walk-thru's that he and other GPC'S used to help folks calling in. You've got a good thing going...keep up the great work!
Thank you!!
Speaking of Shatterhand, is there any chance you could cover that one, too? I've been having a lot of problems finishing it.
Let's do this! #SaturdayMorningGames
Edit: Wow 1:43 this game must be serious bizness
yeah it is!
Love this game. I still give a play every once in a while. Bernard 4 Life! I'm glad someone else uses Dave as the dungeon doorman.
I also used Dave as dungeon master.
Me too lol
About all he's good for
Glad we all see Dave as equally worthless lol
I’m not going to front though: Dave song be banging.
I remember that the security door was actually shut in one of the early versions and I think you needed a password to enter which came with the game's manual or so. In later versions the door is unlocked by default.
I think you're referring to the PC version, which had copy protection. If you failed it, I do believe you were jailed as a thief and the game ended >_
@@AsmodeusMictian I think the mansion blows up if you miss the code several times. When I was a kid I had a photocopy of the code sheet. It was all squares missing lines and you had to select the correct combination...since my photocopy was awful I usually missed the correct code and the house blew up.
Dude, you make great videos. You're like the Bob Ross of finishing NES games. Told all my Discord buddies about your channel. Great stuff!
Awesome, great choice this week.
Thanks Johnny!
I remember stumbling through this game after renting it once. Don’t know I ever finished it. Thanks for the walkthrough. Love these videos. Scratches that nostalgia itch.
Thank you so much for this video! I don't know how you whip out such incredibly detailed, long videos in a weekly basis. Your consistency is amazing.
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Insert demand to take my money (As with every week) here.
Just found this channel and you've already covered my favorite NES games. Really enjoying
Subscribed !
I legit love Pinball Quest. And Day of the Tentacle was one of my favorites as a kid. ALSO Bob from Schitt's Creek was Harry the Fly in Maniac Mansion (John Hemphill). Man, I'm 4 minutes into this video and I'm already typing like YES YES YES this game is so good and so is everything you've mentioned.
Hoagie is awesome!
Thank man! I knew SOMEONE else out there had to like Pinball Quest! I think its a really underrated gem. Totally didn't realize that Harry the Fly was Bob! That's so crazy!
I have so many memories from this time, I appreciate your content.
Glad you included giving the meteor to the man eating plant. Also, just to see what happened, once I took the meteor to the kitchen and then used the radioactive water in the microwave and killed myself while still holding the meteor. You die of course but the house still blows up. Im sure you can also do it by drowning the player in the pool holding the meteor too.
No, that won't work.
The player must *switch kids* to drain and refill the pool. But the "new kid" command doesn't work during the game's climax.
@@grantorino2325 Oh yes you're right! Brain fart. Thats probably why I did the radioactive water since its the only way. You prob could give Ed the exploded hamster. Ill have to try that later.
God I loved this damn game. Also first.
I played this game non stop since I got it on the NES for my bday in the early 90s. I had finished the game every way and thought I had uncovered every secret... but killing off Wendy or using the space police AND Wendy? I never thought of that, so I've learned something new.
Also in the PAL release of the game you couldn't microwave the Hamster, it wasn't until I emulated it years later I found out the results of that "fun"....
I was never patient enough to actually sit down and play through this one, so it was nice to finally actualyl see what happens in it :p
😁
I share your sentiment.
If you accidentally befriend Weird Ed with the package before you get the hamster/keycard/dimes, you can still get him out of the room by ringing the doorbell.
If you keep ringing the doorbell it annoys him and he says, "I'm coming! I'm coming!"
I once had this game so memorized, I caught myself playing it in my head. Full playthroughs, too. And I was still slower than speedrunners, even in my mind! :p
I used to play VICE CITY in my head like that on the bus to school and my friend would get so mad at me
You missed the Famicom version which was released before NES with completely different graphics. The NES version is the best of course, though! I think there’s also another main ending variant where someone who isn’t Dave dies.
This was an amazing walkthrough! Never played this and as an adult I would never have gotten any good endings
Maybe I’m wrong I don’t have access to maniac mansion but wasn’t Ted the surfer already strong? Like he didn’t have to lift weights to open the things that needed strengthening for? Ted was still useless either way still but I for some reason want to think that was his other ability.
Maniac Mansion makes me appreciate my Sane Trailer.
12:40 The tentacles have no hands or arms - at least not until Day of the Tentacle - so whoever the artist was, it wasn't Green or Purple. I believe the slime is from the meteor breaking out of its shell(?) while they were painting a picture of it.
I can't imagine the work that went into this. Well done and thank you!
Thanks man!
FOR SURE! This had to take more than 10 hours just for all of the playthroughs w/ different characters combinations. Then add editing & game history research- hope the dog helped-
I only played this game from the version that was included in "Day of the Tentacle" when you click on the computer in Weird Ed's room.
I absolutely love Bernard's dialogue if you give him the Exploded Hamster: "It's a good thing I brought my pocket protector."
I would also set impossible time limits by trying to beat the game after activating the tiny security pad on the second floor hallway just to the left of the security door.
On the NES version, they got rid of the statue, but you can still interact with the plaque. Trying to interact with it actually starts the meltdown timer and it is impossible to stop it.
This game eluded me as a child. I can imagine the scope of it being mind blowing at the time and the quirkiness would have kept me hooked. It’s a shame it took me so long to find this, but I appreciate that your video(s) took me back to the past! Really, I appreciate the work you put into these.
This channel needs waaay more views. The time to make these long ass videos is relentless. This is one of my favorite games on the NES. So unique at the time maybe not so much for PC, but NEs for sure
When people my age, give or take, talk about NES hard, this is what they mean, and screw you Battletoads
The meteor police always cracked me up! Looking back I don't even know how we figured out several of these endings with no internet or guides!
Because in a way,it follows a logic you can pick up
ZackMcKraken however was so complicated,i don't know anyone who even got far without walktrough
Do you do requests? I LOVE your videos and I would love to watch you do a complete playthrough of Sweet Home!
Did you know you can actually outrun Edna in the kitchen at the beginning of the game? Edge yourself to the right when entering the kitchen and the INSTANT she pops on the screen click the cursor left over and over and run to the door! Be warned, however she WILL chase you out into the hallway and grab you there if you're not careful! Run outside to the porch and she will not follow you. Good trick if you don't want Dave immediately locked up in the dungeon.
Aha I see Ron Gilbert reused the "pour toxic water on a carnivorous plant" in Thimbleweed park. Thanks for the walkthrough!
Can´t wait for the day when you tackle Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom
One extremely great trick that I always used for the game is the select button. Every time to press the select button it cycles through "Get > Use > Open" which helps reduce pointer travel time and just quicker to to common commands.
Putting batteries in the fridge was a myth people in the 60s-80s people did thinking it extended the life of them.
If you listen to the commentary on the remastered "Day of the Tentacle" game, you can get the canon lineup. Dave is in your party by default, and "Day of the Tentacle" reveals Bernard was officially there. However, the commentary for that game reveals they had intended the player to be able to choose from six characters, rather than have three by default. Had the additional three characters been added, Razor was going to return as a character choice. So, that would make the canonical team of the first game Dave, Bernard, and Razor.
The useless Security Door was a remnant of the PC version's copyright protection. In that version, I believe the player was asked to type a certain on a specified page of the game manual. Type the wrong word and I think the game crashed. I've never played the early PC version (other than the one bundled with "Day of the Tentacle," which has that door always open), so I'm not entirely sure how it worked.
I know you're only covering the NES version, but it should be noted that if you're playing "Maniac Mansion Deluxe," you have to fix the electricity and get Fred's score from the arcade machine. The 0000 trick won't work.
Incidentally, an alternative to getting Ed out of his room is to have one of the kids (preferably with the key to the front door) ring the doorbell. Ed will leave the room thinking it's the package he's waiting for. Even if her sees a kid at the door he won't kidnap him/her, but he will close and lock the front door. It's been awhile since I've played the game, so I don't know if this will still work after he's gotten the package. Also, even if you're not going for the "Commando Ed" ending, it's not a bad idea to have one of the kids give him the package (once the stamps are removed, if needed). It gives one less Edison to worry about.
30:00 The line in any non-NES version of the game is "The Meteor is going to be PISSED!"
People of today who want to experience the real Maniac Mansion feeling again should simply not opt for this dreadful Nintendo version. Aside from all the content that was removed, the Edisons also have blue skin in there. And, in general, on Nintendo. the game is an visual insult. It's better to stick with the original, on the C64. There are plenty of emulators available. It's a matter of 2 minutes
Doesn't Razor break the 4th wall and say something like "Why did you make me do that?" if you microwave the hamster as her? Or is that from a different version of the game? Also I believe there's a secret keypad that can blow up the house next to the steel security door on the 1st floor landing.
dude. this game owned me as a kid! I spent so much time messing around this game and never came close to a victory lol
One thing you failed to mention in this video is the keypad. On the left wall in the hallway right after going through the security door, there is an invisible keypad (behind where the nude statue would be in the PC version). Im not sure if there is an actual code that does something special, but anytime ive messed with it it always blows the house up. If anybody has an additional info about this, i would love to know!
Gamepro or egm told me about the keypad, but I never learned if there was a specific code that did something besides explode the house.
I just watched a playthrough of this, and it was boring AF. Your presentation is great, all of them. Informative and entertaining! A Patreon would be great or a way to contribute to your channel, looking forward to many more vids.
This guy is perhaps the most skilled gamer I have ever seen for classic NES games. Check out his performance on skill based games like Ninja Gaiden or Castlevania. This guy has the Skillz to pay the billz! LOL-
I watch a lot of Speedrun content, so seeing the other side of things with the casual completion content is a delight. Great idea for a channel, Dog Lord.
I've just stumbled into this channel and have to say this is one of the very best breakdowns of the game I've ever seen and I really appreciate the deep dive you went into the game and the history and all of the endings and possible outcomes. Thanks for showing off some of the endings I had no idea that existed and how to get them in a clear and concise manner!
I request Zombies Ate My Neighbors since it's another Lucas Arts game i can't beat, and it just got a re-release so the timing is perfect
Wow, what a thorough and excellent presentation! Maniac Mansion is probably my favourite game of all time. The photos in Nintendo Power confused me so much as a kid, not being aware of beta software. I kept looking for that missing statue, heh. And i had to call their hint line about the rusty key on the chandelier. The guy asked me how an opera singer would get it down and it clicked immediately: tentacle mating calls! 😁
I had this game on the Commodore 64 and on the Apple II omg, memories!!!!!
You didn't mention the fact that there is a keypad in the hallway, before the initial encounter with the green tentacle and after the steel door, where the arcade and the dr's office is. To the left of the steel door entrance in that hallway is a hidden keypad. The only thing I know about it is that it blows up the house. Might have been left over because of the previous statue, testing purposes or forgot to remove it due to a puzzle they removed.
Frozen Edna may look like a bug, but the programmers needed to limit the NPC code to handle one "seen when entering" at a time due to how slow the AI movement logic is to the CPU. It turns out Edna, Fred, etc. use the same character movement logic as the player characters, actually walking around from room to room!
You can see the lag when they're moving around.
Considering you did each character's ending, and how much time is invested with each one, you must have taken at least forever to make this video. This game frustrated and puzzled me for years. Excellent walk-thru and exploration of all the intricacies of this fantastic game.