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Created by Bob Carrau, Paul Flaherty, John Hemphill. With Joe Flaherty, Deborah Theaker, Kathleen Robertson, Avi Phillips. Sitcom about an amiable mad scientist who moves his family into a home inhabited by a sentient meteor. Maniac Mansion is a 1987 graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games. Initially released for the Commodore 64 and Apple II, it was Lucasfilm's foray into video game publishing. The game follows teenager Dave Miller as he ventures into a mansion and at.
Maniac MansionGenreCreated byBased onby andDeveloped byCliff RubyElana LesserBob CarrauStarringOpening theme'Maniac Mansion' - sung by, composed byCountry of originCanadaOriginal language(s)EnglishNo. Of seasons3No. Of episodes66ProductionRunning time30 minutesProduction company(s)DistributorAtlantis FilmsReleaseOriginal networkPicture formatOriginal releaseSeptember 14, 1990 –April 4, 1993Maniac Mansion is a - created by, which aired concurrently on in Canada and in the United States for three seasons from September 14, 1990, to April 4, 1993.The series is very loosely based on the popular 1987 video game. While served as co-producers on the series, the show thematically shares little in common with its source material (see ). Contents.Overview Maniac Mansion centers around the lives of the Edisons, an American family living in a large in the upscale suburban neighborhood of Cedar Springs. The Edisons consist of patriarch Fred , an eccentric scientist and inventor, his level-headed wife Casey , and their children, teenage genius Tina , prepubescent Ike and precocious toddler Turner. Also living in the Edison mansion are Casey's brother Harry Orca and his wife Idella Muckle-Orca.While Maniac Mansion primarily derives its storylines from typical fare such as family life and parent-child relationships, the series incorporated several prominent elements of.
Fred Edison is a scientist who works out of his basement which is partially powered by a mysterious extraterrestrial, and many episodes revolve around Fred's outlandish and occasionally disastrous experiments and inventions.
TriviaThe paintings in the hallway on the second floor are: Alex's eye from 'A Clockwork Orange;' the Amityville house; Napoleon Bonaparte; and Mrs. Bates from 'Psycho.'
The statue at the far left is a real artwork, 'Dawn,' by Michaelangelo, which was sculpted for the Medici chapel. The translation of the plaque is: 'If found, send to the Louvre, postage paid.' The slashed painting in the dining room is likewise an actual artwork, in this case 'Sunday in the Park' by Georges Seurat. The revised editions of the game identify the photograph in the den as Castle Brunwald, the place where Henry Jones was held hostage in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.' I liked the premise of this game and it was rather well done and rather fun.
The problem is not really the game itself just the time I played it. I was to young to really figure things out, and there was no internet to look up a walk through. So I had problems doing certain things, could not quite figure things out, and I had no way of finding out the information as no one I knew ever played this game. Which is understandable, this game is a bit unique in its style and game play and most of the people I knew were more into the mainstream type games such as 'Double Dragon' or 'Mike Tyson's Punchout'. This one though intrigued me, a person that likes those out there type of things and this certainly is in the category of out there. Basically, a bunch of teens with different specialties go through a mansion in search of a friend or a couple of friends. What they find is a very demented mansion with radioactive swimming pools and various other things of that nature.
It also has a very strange family living there though one of them may prove to be your ally. It was fun, but I was never able to really do a whole lot when I played it then. Probably why I would like to play it again as I think I could figure it out a bit better now. This game also seems to have been one of those games that started as a computer game and was ported over to the Nintendo gaming system. The controls and such just make it seem to be more for a computer. I liked how you could look at everything and interact with a lot of things as well. Just a game that could have been better, but not really that, just a game I should play again now that I can look up how to do stuff and figure a way to win.
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