RSS Feed
Twitter
June 25th, 2016 
Carl Williams 
Maniac Mansion – a classic point and click adventure title that was widely released, received a sequel in 1993. The original was limited to a mansion, hence the name, and it worked oh so well. The sequel did away with one single location so that it could throw even more adventuring at fans. Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle is all about time travel, minus the Delorean. Also without the teenage angst that goes with it most of the time.
Engines are not bad
The Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion (SCUMM) engine was used here. This gives Day of the Tentacle an inherent “comfortable” feel. Anyone that played any of the previous seven games that featured this engine knows this feeling. They all “feel” similar, at least in the control area. This is a good thing.
Day of the Tentacle bridged technology
When initially released, Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle was available on both floppy disk and CD-ROM. Obviously the CD-ROM featured better voices- known as a “talkie” version back in the day. If you have a choice in which to grab, go for this version. The voices help bring the characters to life and it is possibly the better version. GoG.com has the remastered version of DotT available.
100% fun, spoiler free
I won’t ruin the story for you. If you are a fan of point and click adventures grab a copy of Day of the Tentacle. Especially if you rocked Maniac Mansion. I played the first game on the Nintendo Entertainment System. I had purchased an early copy that had the hamster/microwave option.
Spadoni Productions released a fan film based on the first Maniac Mansion. I provided the voices for two characters. Check it out here on Youtube.
Earlier this year Double Fine Productions released a “remaster” of Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle for Playstation 4, Playstation Vita, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh OS X.
Finally, hit eBay and Amazon
Share this:
Posted in 
Tags: 
