Game Review on 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 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 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 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 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 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 Special Features con Ending 2 Shoot meteor into space Special Features con Ending 3 Shoot meteor into space but Dave is dead Special Features con Ending 4 Meteor Police come to save the day Special Features con Ending 5 Kill all the kids Special features con Ending 6 Make Meteor famous with publishing contract Special features con Ending 7 Feed big plant meteor 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 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 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
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