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Basic Information

• Game Title - Maniac Mansion
• Company LucasArts Entertainment Co.
• Type of Game Interactive Sci Fi
• Price - 5 for NES game cartridge
• Hardware Nintendo Entertainment System, Game
  controller
• Platforms- NES, DOS, APPLE II, Atari ST,
• Amiga, Commodore 64

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Story Line

• Dr Fred is your typical mad scientist character
  He lives in a mansion with his nurse Edna and his
  son Ed.
• Twenty years ago, a meteor crashed near his
  mansion, and Dr Fred has been conducting weird
  experiments ever since. He is being controlled by
  an evil purple metor from out of space. You
  assume the role of a teenager called Dave. One of
  the good doctor's latest experiments involves
  Dave's girlfriend, Sandy, so naturally Dave
  decides to go and rescue her. He takes two of his
  buddies with him and heads for the mansion

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Players

• Dave Sandys boyfriend
• Razor In a rock in roll band, plays music
• Benard The nerd
• Syd Musician, works with keyboards guitars
• Wendy- The writer
• Jeff The surfer guy
• Michael The photographer

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User Interface

• Point and click game
• Use cursor to
• Move around the different rooms in mansion
• Click on any of the verbs listed in the white at
  bottom to go with any objects in room or listed
  in yellow
• Switch to New Kid to manipulate

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Game summary

• Scoring There is no scoring system for the
  game, the object of game is to rescue Sandy from
  Dr. Fred
• Sound and Music Each player carries a cd player
  with them playing different music in the
  background.
• Sound effects to certain objects, such as
  turning on tv or breaking a glass
• Different music played within each cut scene

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Special Features

• Has 7 multiple Endings
• Depending on the 2 players you choose in the
  beginning
• Depending on if you kill a player
• Depends on what you do in the mansion
• Ending 1
• Blow up the mansion and kill everyone

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Special Features (con.)

• Ending 2 Shoot meteor into space

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Special Features (con.)

• Ending 3 Shoot meteor into space but Dave is
  dead

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Special Features (con.)

• Ending 4 Meteor Police come to save the day

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Special Features (con.)

• Ending 5 Kill all the kids

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Special features (con.)

• Ending 6 Make Meteor famous with publishing
  contract

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Special features (con.)

• Ending 7 Feed big plant meteor

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Game Review

• What is Good?
• Has good story plot
• High replay value since there is multiple
  solutions
• What is Bad?
• The monotony of pointing and clicking everywhere
  , other than that Awesome

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Game Review (con.)

• Compare to other games in genre?
• First game to feature a point and click interface
  with animated characters
• Appropriate Audience?
• Age group 11 for NES version
• Any other version containing
• Nurse Eda Sexually explicit comments
• Blowing up animals .. Age group 15

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Summary

• Overall Strengths
• Multiple ways the game can be won
• Different objects cannot be used unless certain
  characters are chosen making replay value high
• Overall Weaknesses
• None, except maybe better graphics
• Conclusion Purchase and play the game!