This week in Your Parents
Basement, we are pointing and clicking our way through a creepy house as we try
to save our girlfriend with plastic fruit, exploding hamsters and a Weird
Edsel! From 1987 and 1990, we’re playing Maniac
Mansion by Lucasfilm Games (the predecessor to LucasArts) for the PC and
NES.
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TIMESTAMPS
- 0:00 – Intro, which is tentacle and Edison family theme from Maniac Mansion. You can find a full soundtrack on YouTube here. And also, for today’s show, we’re joined by special guest DJ!
- 44:45 – Emails! What’s our favorite Tetris piece? Who would write our theme songs? What about games based on TV game shows? Altavista???
- 1:11:30 – A snifferoo from next week’s show, which is another LucasArts game! Huzzah!
SHOW NOTES
- According to Price
Charting, Maniac Mansion has held
its value well, as a cult classic. Loose carts of the NES version go for about
$19, with the price swelling to $80 for the box and manual, to $222 for “new”
copies. The PC version starts at around $30, although it’s also available in
digital-only formats for much cheaper.
- Also, as mentioned on the show,
the sequel, Day of the Tentacle,
has been re-released. It’s going for about $15 on the PS4 and PC. The game does
have a really neat Easter egg though – The original Maniac Mansion is playable in full on a computer in the game.
- Also also as mentioned on the
show, the Japanese Maniac Mansion looks
like a weird tech demo for the NES. Check it out here. And the TV show is
here.
- Wanna read one of the oldest
things on the internet, kind of? Wired has
an article from Douglas Crockford, who worked on Maniac Mansion for LucasArts. It’s the longform article DJ was
talking about, and you can find it here. It’s a really
interesting read on what they had to take out of the game.
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