28 Facts About Maniac Mansion

Maniac Mansion is a 1987 graphic adventure video game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games.

Maniac Mansion was critically acclaimed: reviewers lauded its graphics, cutscenes, animation, and humor.

In 1990, Maniac Mansion was adapted into a three-season television series of the same name, written by Eugene Levy and starring Joe Flaherty.

Maniac Mansion is a graphic adventure game in which the player uses a point-and-click interface to guide characters through a two-dimensional game world and to solve puzzles.

Maniac Mansion has five possible endings, based on which characters are chosen, which survive, and what the characters accomplish.

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Maniac Mansion was conceived in 1985 when Lucasfilm Games employees Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick were assigned to create an original game.

Maniac Mansion befriended Winnick over their similar tastes in humor, film, and television.

Maniac Mansion described it as "a ridiculous teen horror movie", in which teenagers inside a building were killed one by one without any thought of leaving.

Maniac Mansion decided that a new game engine would have to be created.

Maniac Mansion characterized such game design as "sadistic", and he commented: "I know that in the real world I can successfully pick up a broken piece of mirror without dying".

Maniac Mansion team wanted to retain the structure of a text-based adventure game, but without the standard command-line interface.

Maniac Mansion found the inclusion of graphics in Sierra On-Line games, such as King's Quest, to be a step in the right direction, but these games still require the player to type, and to guess which commands must be input.

Maniac Mansion hired Ken Macklin, an acquaintance of Winnick's, to design the game's packaging artwork.

The 16-bit versions of Maniac Mansion featured a copy protection system requiring the user to enter graphical symbols out of a code book included with the game.

Maniac Mansion brought in George "The Fat Man" Sanger and his band, along with David Hayes, to compose the score.

Maniac Mansion lauded the game's graphics, animation and high level of detail.

Maniac Mansion called it "compellingly good" and evidence of Lucasfilm's push "to make computer games a valid storytelling art".

Happy-Computer later reported that Maniac Mansion was the highest-selling video game in West Germany for three consecutive months.

Maniac Mansion considered the game to be Lucasfilm's best, and he recommended it to Commodore 64 and Apple II users unable to run titles with better visuals, such as those from Sierra On-Line.

Michael Labiner of Germany's Amiga Joker considered Maniac Mansion to be one of the best adventure games for the system.

Maniac Mansion noted minor graphical flaws, such as a limited color palette, but he argued that the gameplay made up for such shortcomings.

Maniac Mansion's criticized the graphics and gameplay of both releases but felt the game to be highly enjoyable regardless.

Co-reviewer Heinrich Lenhardt stated that Maniac Mansion was unlike any other NES adventure game, and that it was no less enjoyable than its home computer releases.

The Lucasfilm team built on their experiences from Maniac Mansion and became increasingly ambitious in subsequent titles.

Maniac Mansion enthusiasts have drawn fan art of its characters, participated in tentacle-themed cosplay and produced a trailer for a fictitious film adaptation of the game.

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Maniac Mansion used the Adventure Game Studio engine to develop the project, which he distributed free of charge on the Internet.

Maniac Mansion expressed doubts about its potential quality, in light of George Lucas's enhanced remakes of the original Star Wars trilogy.

In December 2017, Disney, which gained rights to the LucasArts games following its acquisition of Lucasfilm, published Maniac Mansion running atop the ScummVM virtual machine to various digital storefronts.