YES! I'm so happy you haven't stopped doing games, I like the Retro TV stuff, but I was worried you had stopped retro games. Keep up the good work, Roses!
Pro tip - If you own Day of the Tentacle, then you can play Maniac Mansion on the arcade machine in one of the rooms (or for the more techy people you can actually extract it from the DoT game folder and rename one of the files to be an .exe). Or buy it on Steam for just $6 :D
When Jessica Fletcher plays a Sierra game, she never dies and never dead ends despite having no idea what the hell is going on until the last puzzle of the game.
Great video! I remember that in an interview, one of the Lucasarts developers behind the port to NES said that the worst part about the censorship was how arbitrarious it felt. Like they asked if that risqué statue was ok to keep, and they received a response from Nintendo saying that "Ok, but don't show the pubic hair". They were so befuddled by this answer that they decide to remove the statue altogether.
I bought the last copy of the NES version my video store had, and it is, in my opinion, the best game on the system for all the reasons you mentioned. I think it has the best music for the NES, too. I, too, hated the requirement of choosing Dave since Dave had zero special abilities - He served as my brick-pusher, too, and I often would send him to his death before the game was over for a hysterical end scene. I have never had a chance to play Day of the Tentacle, but I want to even more, now. (FYI: You do need to feed that plant the Pepsi to make it burp or else it will bite you if you try to climb it.)
I always chose Razor or Wendy as the female sidekicks because i love seeing Wendy fixing the memoirs of the meteor & helping him with his novelist career or just doing the same with Green Tentacles music career by picking Razor ^_^ Also, yes the pointless items you can pick up are… pointless but when i played this game for the first time in 1991 or so, i LOVED the sheer amount of stuff you could pick up and try using anywhere. Up until that moment i had no idea you could do that in videogame. And i always loved this kind of playful interactive environment stuff in other games as well. Like in Duke Nukem 3D. So much to try out. It's an element that really makes a virtual world a lot more believable & fun to explore.
Another reason to get Manic Mansion 2: Day of the Tentacle, you can play the first Manic Mansion on a computer in it. Playing videogames inside videogames! Yeah!
Thanks for doing Maniac Mansion! This is actually my favorite Lucasfilm game. Not sure why, but I just love the dense complexity of this thing, even though it's not a long wound game.
Fun fact: The line "Don´t be a tuna head" was originally written "Don´t be a shit head" but the head of Lucasfilm Games was against any swear words. So Ron Gilbert came up with the term "tuna head" to protest against the ´censorship´. Another fun fact: They originally came up with 40 (!) different verbs but later reduced their number. Maniac mansion was one of my favorite games on my C64. My best friends also played it, actually we finished it together.
*When I played this on my Amiga 500 and 2000 back in the day, I always went with Razor and Syd, as I was a musician myself that dug both punk and new wave, so I just really identified with both... I loved the Green Tentacle's "mondo stereo"...*
Amazing thing about Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle was that there was a HUGE dedicated German fanbase for these games. They made dozens and dozens of sequels and fangames that followed up on them and told a new story. It was episodic gaming before actual developers coined the term and process. They're pretty interesting and worth checking out. They all utilize the Maniac Mansion + DOTT characters and a few other Lucas Arts games like Zak McKracken. A lot of them were translated into English as well.
The replayability of the game is quite remarkable. Even when you know all the puzzles, the act of coordinating the three people, having them in the right places at the right time with the right items and not get caught, can still be quite a challenge. And you have numerous different characters with different abilities and in turn different endings on top. Few other adventure games manage to have an environment that feels this alive and interactive, most of the later ones put far more focus on a relatively linear story and don't really offer anything new to explore when going through them a second time.
As much as I love your TV reviews it was nice to see another one of your classic PC game reviews. Maniac Mansion was the first adventure game I ever played, and yes Dave was assigned brick duty every single time.
I remember trying Maniac Mansion at a computer store when I was a kid, back when Commodore was actual competition in the computer market and they sold them at the same stores as PCs (IBM /Compatibles) and Apples. I fell in love and from that day forward my goal was to get a computer and play that game. I achieved that goal. I think I liked Zak McKracken more, but I loved MM. I played it through with so many character combinations, and eventually bought the hint book (guide) and found out about stuff I never knew about. Lucasarts did a great job at adventure games back in the day. I mean, you could find a chainsaw in MM but it had no gas. Then in Zak you found gas (on Mars) but it didn't do you any good because it was for the chainsaw in MM. I think they connections through a few of their earlier games, it just made playing them that much more fun. Great video, makes me want to play through MM again. Haven't played it in years.
Fun fact: The original line during design was "Don't be a shithead!" but the devs decided that was a bit too profane and changed it to tuna head, which of course nobody says, so it made the line stand out a little more. There's also a free fan-made update called Maniac Mansion Deluxe released around 2004 that has 256 colors and full audio instead of the old PC speaker beeps and boops, but you'll have to Google it to get it because shortly after it got put on abandonware sites, LucasArts (collapsed and owned by Disney now) fiercely copyright-claimed it. I recommend it highly. I noticed you pointed out the puzzles being nicer than Sierra games since it's harder to die, but there are still ways to put the game in an unwinnable state or lose outright. Obviously if you manage to kill off all the kids you lose and get the message "All the kids are dead. There's no one to stop the evil meteor's plan for world domination. Hope you like purple slime, heh heh." I think if you run out of dimes to put in the telescope you can't get the safe combo, which would make that puzzle unsolvable, and of course you pointed out being unable to re-use the envelope if you rip it makes the demo tape/manuscript impossible to ship to the publishing company. If you ship Razor or Sid's music to the publishing company instead of Green Tentacle's demo tape, Sid/Razor gets the recording contract instead of GT, so he won't help you get into the lab. LucasArts did learn from this when they got the fan feedback and going forward with games like Monkey Island they made sure not to punish the player anymore. I like that they did make the game winnable with any combination of kids because there's no way to pick a completely unskilled team, there's always at least 1 way to get past Purple Tentacle in the lab and always a method to deal with the meteor.
Awesome, while I lke the new direction fo the channel, I am glad that some classic computer games still get some air time. I played Maniac Mansion back then on my C64, and it was the game that got me in interested in adventure games in the first place
My favorite ending is calling the Meteor Police right before presenting Purple Meteor with a publishing contract for his manuscript, and the Meteor Police will arrest him during a TV interview. :)
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thanks for the hours of fun you already gave me with other videos. but this one is special to me! given maniac mansion is my dearest memory back to the time i had my first c64, while it's been more of a love/hate relationship, when i actually played it. given that my english skills where mediocre at best, it took me about a year to complete once. I didn't even realize, there are more ways of completing it, until you just said so and it's probably the first of the games from 'back in the days' i am actually going to replay. even so i hated how hard it was for me and how long it took me, even so i gave up in frustration countless times, i always picked it up again anyway. because i was a nerd, and hobby astronomer and scifi fan, later turned punk and than goth for a while, because of the hamster, tentacle, mummys, meteors, telescopes and so much more. thanks a thousand times for picking all of those 'just the right things' you did and making me remember.
Great video. This was my first adventure game so I’ll always have a soft spot for it. I remember trying out the NES version thinking it would be the same. I was unpleasantly surprised at how neutered it felt. Most of the humour was gone.
I remember playing this game on my old MS/DOS computer on chilly fall nights around Halloween. i still have the Lucasfilm Treasure Chest with the floppy disks and walkthrough. The walkthrough was great because it was written in narrative format in the perspective of some of the characters in the games.
Murder, She Clicked. With her deep knowledge of moon logic and the countless Sierra-induced deaths she's experienced, RUclipsr Roses solves mysteries. Featuring Dave Grohl as... Dave Grohl, the mayor of Conure Cove.
This is easily my favorite game of all time -- Syd and Bernard were always my picks. I've had such a blast watching all these videos on your channel of all of these old games. I grew up playing all these DOS games and I feel like very few people I ever talk to have ever played or heard of them. I feel like games back then had a different kind of audience than now. Hell, even installing half these things were their own puzzle -- Sound card port settings? IRQ? DMA channel? God help if you if 1 of your 11 Gabriel Knight disks malfunctioned!
I've admittedly never played this game, I've only seen the playthrough of the NES version that Game Grumps released back in like 2013, but this game has come to mind so many times over the years. It's so unique and has such a comedic and memorable presentation.
You can use all the superfluous food items to feed the plant to make it bag instead of the radioactive water. The Pepsi I thought was supposed to pacify it to make it climbable.
I think the show was more an excuse for Lucasfilm to test out some ideas they had for digital production (this was a few years before the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles) and for SCTV alums to try a scripted tv series. The show really does feel like an SCTV sketch turned into a tv series.
Thank you for all the wonderful critique you've made. I really do look forward to the next chance encounter a fellow glasses pusher has to fill my ears.
This was very fun and made me smile as wide as a shark seeing this video pay good tribute and give a sincere review of this game and it's history. Thanks for the video PushingUpRoses!
I love your channel. I loved all these games as a kid, and outside of one group of friends, no one ever heard of them. Plus I a m huge Murder She Wrote fan. That theme song gets me hyped all the time.
Poor Dave. The only character as nearly useless was Syd who had Razors skills. I was hardcore about MM when I was young. I had the original non censored NES cart by chance. Fun fact most people don't know- on that cart when you put the hamster in the microwave, you can take him out without opening the microwave door. This sometimes creates a duplicated hamster in your inventory with glitched name. Unfortunately you can't do anything with it, it just stays there like a brick. I also watched the show. I was disappointed that it wasn't faithful at all beyond the names of the ed gaming. It had Joe Flaherty, so that was a plus.
Oh cool! I never knew that Maniac Mansion was originally designed as a pen and paper game! It's kind of a coincidence that I learned this while I've been working on a cheesy horror pen and paper campaign for my friends! Great video!
I found it interesting how differently you played it! I first played this game in high school on the C64. I found you could play all three characters and as you collect more keys you could use the mother/ed to teleport you back to the bottom. My one complaint is probably that - the further you got in the game the easier by magnitude it gets. The game also has a lot of dead-ends - for instance you can launch the car into space without the meteor.
Great to see you review this game! I first played it on a PC with CGA graphics and an abnormally loud sound cue for the water valve that really annoyed my mom. I still have the NES version and break it out every other year or so. I never knew you could kill the hamster.
Funny, Maniac Mansion, both the game and the show, were brought up today in Brad Jones’ live stream today. I remember watching it on The Family Channel.
I'm just finding out about your channel and you are amazing. This game was awesome. I played as a kid. It scared me as a kid believe it or not. I finally beat it last year. Each character has a certain path to take to beat the game. Once was enough lol. Great channel.
I'll happily watch any content you make because it's always amusing and high quality, but I am happy to see you haven't stopped doing video game reviews :D
MM is one of the best games of all time. My Aunt gave me my original Nintendo, along with MM, so it's been with me as long as I've been gaming. Still have my original copy and you'll have to pry it from my dead hands before i'd ever let it go.
Great video. I love your TV stuff but I'm always happy to see you talk about games and this is one I played a good bit as a kid on the NES. Some good humor in this video as well.
There are some moments that do creep me out in this game.. like the abrupt way when you die it cuts to a tombstone and then you have to keep going as another character
I've heard about Maniac Mansion for years but only until I watched this video do I "get it". This video is really good at explaining it's highs and lows!
I still think the availability of death really helped set the mood for Sierra games and when it was done well, it made the situation tense and interesting... and when it wasn't... well it wasn't. It should be noted that Lucas Arts games where "danger" was an actual thing, still had death (Dang Atlantis, I died fighting a bouncer?)
I am so glad I did not dream up that Maniac Mansion television show. I caught about 5 minutes of one episode like 25 years ago (I am 33) and loosely made the connection to the game, which I don't even remember if I played yet. Another great video PUR, cant wait till the next one.
As a kid, this game actually taught me about steaming envelopes open in the microwave, which I then used several times to intercept mail from school and remove my teacher's incriminating notes about me to mom.
That's not a broken mirror piece, that's a huge- and incredibly sharp- piece of metal! Of course it's going to cut you badly! Also, Roger actually does pick up a broken piece of glass in the first Space Quest game, but that piece of glass was small and had smooth edges.
This isn't a horror game?? When I took my character into the kitchen and walked all the way to the right it scared the shit out of me when the nurse caught you! Karma back in DOTT though, easily one of the best sequels to a game I've ever played.
Another great video. I love all your video and constantly rewatch them. I just want to thank you. Anytime I see an upload I instantly click. Thanks for helping me through with another one of your amazing uploads.
Thank you so much for reviewing this game! I was utterly obsessed with Maniac Mansion as a little kid. I rented it so many times I could have bought it several times over for the same price. You also picked the same team as I did for the same reasons. I've searched for reviews on the past but it seems this game isn't remembered nearly as well as others from the same era.
I'm so happy that you finally got around to doing a video on MM! It always seemed like a game that was right in your wheelhouse. Since I owned an NES long before I ever had a PC, this game was my first experience with old-school adventure games. Young me was completely baffled by the mechanics, and never made it very far until I got my hands on the Nintendo Power strategy guide (which had an awesome cover, by the way).
I probably spent more hours replaying this than any other nes game, Loved it as a kid ! The music was extremely well done , and I am still finding out about ways to beat the game I never would have guessed ( I had no idea you could feed the meteor to the plant for example). I guess the only thing left to say was Razor was awesome!
The hamster was microwaveable because that was how microwaves were developed. One of the earliest microwaves was created to thaw freeze dried hamsters. It’s a reference to that. I want everyone on Earth to know this fact. PS: Razor’s actual name is “Rachel,” apparently.
@@bonniehowell9206 It was one of those things you did once in a game before regretting it and never doing it again. There was also an infamous tabloid headline in the UK about a rock star eating a hamster. I don’t know the date on Possibly in Michigan, the Celia Conditi film, but that might have been another influence. The protagonists talk about pet microwaving in one scene. Ed never seemed to truly harm anyone deliberately, so he deserves his little pet back. And I’m sure the 🐹 appreciates not being nuked.
Dude, I didn't even know Maniac Mansion was a game until I was an adult. My ONLY exposure to it was through the TV show when I was a kid. I actually thought they were separate things until this video brought back the memories of watching the show.
What? Games? I thought this was a Murder She Wrote channel!? 😜
No it’s an adventure game channel
A statement even farther from truth than 4 years ago
3:25 I like how the family photograph includes that green tentacle. It's nice to see it's being included in the family unit! :3
so kawaii
green tentacle is cool. you should watch out for purple tentacle.
Lucasarts; A pleasurable amount of punishment.
Oh my.
Loosetoothcasarts?
Slaanesh is pleased
YES! I'm so happy you haven't stopped doing games, I like the Retro TV stuff, but I was worried you had stopped retro games. Keep up the good work, Roses!
Still holding out for the next quest for glory video
@@cosmicrdt Same!
Pro tip - If you own Day of the Tentacle, then you can play Maniac Mansion on the arcade machine in one of the rooms (or for the more techy people you can actually extract it from the DoT game folder and rename one of the files to be an .exe). Or buy it on Steam for just $6 :D
My favourite RUclipsr reviewing my favourite game? Yo Roses, I love you, you da best
When Jessica Fletcher plays a Sierra game, she never dies and never dead ends despite having no idea what the hell is going on until the last puzzle of the game.
Your such an underrated youtuber i dont know you dont have a million followers yet
The stuff she talks about is also underrated but I hope both her channel and her subjects become more popular.
Great video! I remember that in an interview, one of the Lucasarts developers behind the port to NES said that the worst part about the censorship was how arbitrarious it felt. Like they asked if that risqué statue was ok to keep, and they received a response from Nintendo saying that "Ok, but don't show the pubic hair". They were so befuddled by this answer that they decide to remove the statue altogether.
A great game. My favorite line was "Don't be a tuna head."
>Dissin on the verbs
ROSE HOW COULD YOU?
right??
I bought the last copy of the NES version my video store had, and it is, in my opinion, the best game on the system for all the reasons you mentioned. I think it has the best music for the NES, too. I, too, hated the requirement of choosing Dave since Dave had zero special abilities - He served as my brick-pusher, too, and I often would send him to his death before the game was over for a hysterical end scene.
I have never had a chance to play Day of the Tentacle, but I want to even more, now.
(FYI: You do need to feed that plant the Pepsi to make it burp or else it will bite you if you try to climb it.)
I always chose Razor or Wendy as the female sidekicks because i love seeing Wendy fixing the memoirs of the meteor & helping him with his novelist career or just doing the same with Green Tentacles music career by picking Razor ^_^ Also, yes the pointless items you can pick up are… pointless but when i played this game for the first time in 1991 or so, i LOVED the sheer amount of stuff you could pick up and try using anywhere. Up until that moment i had no idea you could do that in videogame. And i always loved this kind of playful interactive environment stuff in other games as well. Like in Duke Nukem 3D. So much to try out. It's an element that really makes a virtual world a lot more believable & fun to explore.
Live action endscreen Roses! What universe have I stumbled into! ❤️
It's an awesome one, that's all I know!
Another reason to get Manic Mansion 2: Day of the Tentacle, you can play the first Manic Mansion on a computer in it.
Playing videogames inside videogames! Yeah!
Love this game, very fond memories from my childhood playing this.
your wit is tremendous and make your videos highly entertaining. Thank you kindly for the content.
Thanks for doing Maniac Mansion! This is actually my favorite Lucasfilm game. Not sure why, but I just love the dense complexity of this thing, even though it's not a long wound game.
For those who are unaware, try Maniac Mansion Deluxe - it's a mind-blowingly good remake from fans!
Fun fact: The line "Don´t be a tuna head" was originally written "Don´t be a shit head" but the head of Lucasfilm Games was against any swear words. So Ron Gilbert came up with the term "tuna head" to protest against the ´censorship´. Another fun fact: They originally came up with 40 (!) different verbs but later reduced their number. Maniac mansion was one of my favorite games on my C64. My best friends also played it, actually we finished it together.
Maniac Mansion, such a great game.
Dont miss out on Zak Mckracken and the Alien Mindbenders if you liked Maniac Mansion
*When I played this on my Amiga 500 and 2000 back in the day, I always went with Razor and Syd, as I was a musician myself that dug both punk and new wave, so I just really identified with both... I loved the Green Tentacle's "mondo stereo"...*
Hearing those crickets instantly hit that nostalgia spot. Loved this game but I never got very far.
Thank you for not forgetting us who subscribed for the gaming videos.
The videogame content on this channel has always been the draw for me as well. I've missed them.
Amazing thing about Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle was that there was a HUGE dedicated German fanbase for these games. They made dozens and dozens of sequels and fangames that followed up on them and told a new story. It was episodic gaming before actual developers coined the term and process.
They're pretty interesting and worth checking out. They all utilize the Maniac Mansion + DOTT characters and a few other Lucas Arts games like Zak McKracken. A lot of them were translated into English as well.
SCUMM engine is a beast that, basically, fathered it's own entire phase within the genre.
The replayability of the game is quite remarkable. Even when you know all the puzzles, the act of coordinating the three people, having them in the right places at the right time with the right items and not get caught, can still be quite a challenge. And you have numerous different characters with different abilities and in turn different endings on top. Few other adventure games manage to have an environment that feels this alive and interactive, most of the later ones put far more focus on a relatively linear story and don't really offer anything new to explore when going through them a second time.
I love Maniac Mansion! Great job on the video Roses! Keep it up!
just saw the tv show on youtube it was a cheesy but fun tv show
So love this game along with Day of the Tentacle. If it weren't for this game, I never would have discovered Full Throttle, my fav game of all time
"A pleasurable amount of punishment."
Oh my :O
As much as I love your TV reviews it was nice to see another one of your classic PC game reviews. Maniac Mansion was the first adventure game I ever played, and yes Dave was assigned brick duty every single time.
I remember trying Maniac Mansion at a computer store when I was a kid, back when Commodore was actual competition in the computer market and they sold them at the same stores as PCs (IBM /Compatibles) and Apples. I fell in love and from that day forward my goal was to get a computer and play that game. I achieved that goal.
I think I liked Zak McKracken more, but I loved MM. I played it through with so many character combinations, and eventually bought the hint book (guide) and found out about stuff I never knew about. Lucasarts did a great job at adventure games back in the day. I mean, you could find a chainsaw in MM but it had no gas. Then in Zak you found gas (on Mars) but it didn't do you any good because it was for the chainsaw in MM. I think they connections through a few of their earlier games, it just made playing them that much more fun.
Great video, makes me want to play through MM again. Haven't played it in years.
Roses I was a total Razor and Bernard player with Dave as the brick man. Excellent choices
Really happy to see you making another videogame related video.
Fun fact: The original line during design was "Don't be a shithead!" but the devs decided that was a bit too profane and changed it to tuna head, which of course nobody says, so it made the line stand out a little more.
There's also a free fan-made update called Maniac Mansion Deluxe released around 2004 that has 256 colors and full audio instead of the old PC speaker beeps and boops, but you'll have to Google it to get it because shortly after it got put on abandonware sites, LucasArts (collapsed and owned by Disney now) fiercely copyright-claimed it. I recommend it highly.
I noticed you pointed out the puzzles being nicer than Sierra games since it's harder to die, but there are still ways to put the game in an unwinnable state or lose outright. Obviously if you manage to kill off all the kids you lose and get the message "All the kids are dead. There's no one to stop the evil meteor's plan for world domination. Hope you like purple slime, heh heh." I think if you run out of dimes to put in the telescope you can't get the safe combo, which would make that puzzle unsolvable, and of course you pointed out being unable to re-use the envelope if you rip it makes the demo tape/manuscript impossible to ship to the publishing company. If you ship Razor or Sid's music to the publishing company instead of Green Tentacle's demo tape, Sid/Razor gets the recording contract instead of GT, so he won't help you get into the lab. LucasArts did learn from this when they got the fan feedback and going forward with games like Monkey Island they made sure not to punish the player anymore.
I like that they did make the game winnable with any combination of kids because there's no way to pick a completely unskilled team, there's always at least 1 way to get past Purple Tentacle in the lab and always a method to deal with the meteor.
Love that you've done another classic DOS game video!
Awesome, while I lke the new direction fo the channel, I am glad that some classic computer games still get some air time. I played Maniac Mansion back then on my C64, and it was the game that got me in interested in adventure games in the first place
Don't be a tuna head, Roses.
This is officially my new favorite video of yours. I hear lots of passion in your voice during this review.
You look so lovely! Thank you for choosing to include a video'ed portion at the end :)
My favorite ending is calling the Meteor Police right before presenting Purple Meteor with a publishing contract for his manuscript, and the Meteor Police will arrest him during a TV interview. :)
thanks for the hours of fun you already gave me with other videos. but this one is special to me! given maniac mansion is my dearest memory back to the time i had my first c64, while it's been more of a love/hate relationship, when i actually played it. given that my english skills where mediocre at best, it took me about a year to complete once. I didn't even realize, there are more ways of completing it, until you just said so and it's probably the first of the games from 'back in the days' i am actually going to replay. even so i hated how hard it was for me and how long it took me, even so i gave up in frustration countless times, i always picked it up again anyway. because i was a nerd, and hobby astronomer and scifi fan, later turned punk and than goth for a while, because of the hamster, tentacle, mummys, meteors, telescopes and so much more. thanks a thousand times for picking all of those 'just the right things' you did and making me remember.
Whoa! My favorite RUclipsr reviewing my favorite game from my childhood. Dreams DO come true!
Great video. This was my first adventure game so I’ll always have a soft spot for it. I remember trying out the NES version thinking it would be the same. I was unpleasantly surprised at how neutered it felt. Most of the humour was gone.
I remember playing this game on my old MS/DOS computer on chilly fall nights around Halloween. i still have the Lucasfilm Treasure Chest with the floppy disks and walkthrough. The walkthrough was great because it was written in narrative format in the perspective of some of the characters in the games.
I was soooo looking forward to this. Nothing like a potpourri of Murder She Wrote and Point 'n Clicks.
Murder, She Clicked. With her deep knowledge of moon logic and the countless Sierra-induced deaths she's experienced, RUclipsr Roses solves mysteries. Featuring Dave Grohl as... Dave Grohl, the mayor of Conure Cove.
Thank you for still doing game stuff. I like the other stuff, but games are my favorite thing from this channel.
Punks and Nerds do, indeed, go together very well. That’s why the LGR + PUR Let’s Plays are fantastic
I’m glad you’re back to reviewing mystery games! There’s lots of other overlooked games you should be reviewing.
This is easily my favorite game of all time -- Syd and Bernard were always my picks. I've had such a blast watching all these videos on your channel of all of these old games. I grew up playing all these DOS games and I feel like very few people I ever talk to have ever played or heard of them. I feel like games back then had a different kind of audience than now. Hell, even installing half these things were their own puzzle -- Sound card port settings? IRQ? DMA channel? God help if you if 1 of your 11 Gabriel Knight disks malfunctioned!
THANK YOU! I vaguely remember the show from when I was younger and I've been trying to remember what it was for YEARS! My quest is at an end.
I've admittedly never played this game, I've only seen the playthrough of the NES version that Game Grumps released back in like 2013, but this game has come to mind so many times over the years. It's so unique and has such a comedic and memorable presentation.
Had this for my amiga 500, such good memories
You can use all the superfluous food items to feed the plant to make it bag instead of the radioactive water. The Pepsi I thought was supposed to pacify it to make it climbable.
I took my break at work just to watch this. I always look forward to your new uploads. Thanks for the great content.
Yes! I loved this game. Will definitely listen on my lunch break. Keep up the great content
Absolutely love your videos, I always get excited when you post. Have an awesome day!
Oh, I lived in this game.
Also...any plans to cover the Maniac Mansion tv show?
We'll see ;)
I think the show was more an excuse for Lucasfilm to test out some ideas they had for digital production (this was a few years before the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles) and for SCTV alums to try a scripted tv series. The show really does feel like an SCTV sketch turned into a tv series.
Oh man, the TV series! I had almost forgotten about that! I watched way too much YTV as a kid!
My favorite NES game evAR....thanks ☝️🌹 this was what I needed today
Thank you for all the wonderful critique you've made. I really do look forward to the next chance encounter a fellow glasses pusher has to fill my ears.
This was very fun and made me smile as wide as a shark seeing this video pay good tribute and give a sincere review of this game and it's history.
Thanks for the video PushingUpRoses!
I love your channel. I loved all these games as a kid, and outside of one group of friends, no one ever heard of them. Plus I a m huge Murder She Wrote fan. That theme song gets me hyped all the time.
Poor Dave. The only character as nearly useless was Syd who had Razors skills. I was hardcore about MM when I was young. I had the original non censored NES cart by chance. Fun fact most people don't know- on that cart when you put the hamster in the microwave, you can take him out without opening the microwave door. This sometimes creates a duplicated hamster in your inventory with glitched name. Unfortunately you can't do anything with it, it just stays there like a brick. I also watched the show. I was disappointed that it wasn't faithful at all beyond the names of the ed gaming. It had Joe Flaherty, so that was a plus.
Oh cool! I never knew that Maniac Mansion was originally designed as a pen and paper game! It's kind of a coincidence that I learned this while I've been working on a cheesy horror pen and paper campaign for my friends!
Great video!
I found it interesting how differently you played it! I first played this game in high school on the C64. I found you could play all three characters and as you collect more keys you could use the mother/ed to teleport you back to the bottom. My one complaint is probably that - the further you got in the game the easier by magnitude it gets. The game also has a lot of dead-ends - for instance you can launch the car into space without the meteor.
Great to see you review this game! I first played it on a PC with CGA graphics and an abnormally loud sound cue for the water valve that really annoyed my mom. I still have the NES version and break it out every other year or so. I never knew you could kill the hamster.
Seeing this video in my feed was perfect affirmation that I subbed to the right channel.
Funny, Maniac Mansion, both the game and the show, were brought up today in Brad Jones’ live stream today. I remember watching it on The Family Channel.
Good job on focusing on the humor and culture here. It is where it shines.
I'm just finding out about your channel and you are amazing. This game was awesome. I played as a kid. It scared me as a kid believe it or not. I finally beat it last year. Each character has a certain path to take to beat the game. Once was enough lol. Great channel.
11:14 Phil Collins in the background again. 😉 Same photo my brother and I each got when we sent fan mail to him. 🎶
Great video! My favorite team is Razor and Bernard too. Dave usually finds his end at the bottom of the swimming pool.
I'll happily watch any content you make because it's always amusing and high quality, but I am happy to see you haven't stopped doing video game reviews :D
This is really nostalgic. Great video!
MM is one of the best games of all time. My Aunt gave me my original Nintendo, along with MM, so it's been with me as long as I've been gaming. Still have my original copy and you'll have to pry it from my dead hands before i'd ever let it go.
Great video. I love your TV stuff but I'm always happy to see you talk about games and this is one I played a good bit as a kid on the NES. Some good humor in this video as well.
There are some moments that do creep me out in this game.. like the abrupt way when you die it cuts to a tombstone and then you have to keep going as another character
IM SO HAPPY YOU FINALLY DID A VIDEO ON THIS GAME 💖
This was my joint as a child! Thanks for the nostalgia and overview. Stay dope Roses.(p.s, green tentacle was the homie.)
I've heard about Maniac Mansion for years but only until I watched this video do I "get it". This video is really good at explaining it's highs and lows!
I still think the availability of death really helped set the mood for Sierra games and when it was done well, it made the situation tense and interesting... and when it wasn't... well it wasn't. It should be noted that Lucas Arts games where "danger" was an actual thing, still had death (Dang Atlantis, I died fighting a bouncer?)
I am so glad I did not dream up that Maniac Mansion television show. I caught about 5 minutes of one episode like 25 years ago (I am 33) and loosely made the connection to the game, which I don't even remember if I played yet. Another great video PUR, cant wait till the next one.
As a kid, this game actually taught me about steaming envelopes open in the microwave, which I then used several times to intercept mail from school and remove my teacher's incriminating notes about me to mom.
Great video! I love your sense of humor!
Super informative and funny.
Killin’ it Roses.
That's not a broken mirror piece, that's a huge- and incredibly sharp- piece of metal! Of course it's going to cut you badly! Also, Roger actually does pick up a broken piece of glass in the first Space Quest game, but that piece of glass was small and had smooth edges.
This isn't a horror game?? When I took my character into the kitchen and walked all the way to the right it scared the shit out of me when the nurse caught you! Karma back in DOTT though, easily one of the best sequels to a game I've ever played.
Another great video. I love all your video and constantly rewatch them. I just want to thank you. Anytime I see an upload I instantly click. Thanks for helping me through with another one of your amazing uploads.
Thank you so much for reviewing this game! I was utterly obsessed with Maniac Mansion as a little kid. I rented it so many times I could have bought it several times over for the same price. You also picked the same team as I did for the same reasons. I've searched for reviews on the past but it seems this game isn't remembered nearly as well as others from the same era.
Yes!! I love all your videos but the classic adventure game videos are the best! I was SO happy that you chose one of my favorite LucasArts titles!
I'm so happy that you finally got around to doing a video on MM! It always seemed like a game that was right in your wheelhouse. Since I owned an NES long before I ever had a PC, this game was my first experience with old-school adventure games. Young me was completely baffled by the mechanics, and never made it very far until I got my hands on the Nintendo Power strategy guide (which had an awesome cover, by the way).
I totally would love more let's plays. But hey, I got sent work to do tomorrow, so yay! But thank-you for helping to make lockdown more bearable.
I probably spent more hours replaying this than any other nes game, Loved it as a kid ! The music was extremely well done , and I am still finding out about ways to beat the game I never would have guessed ( I had no idea you could feed the meteor to the plant for example). I guess the only thing left to say was Razor was awesome!
You just brought back some good memories. Thanks Love.
I've been on the 2nd or 3rd watching marathon of your content, and I gotta say you're hilarious and entertaining!!
The hamster was microwaveable because that was how microwaves were developed. One of the earliest microwaves was created to thaw freeze dried hamsters. It’s a reference to that. I want everyone on Earth to know this fact.
PS: Razor’s actual name is “Rachel,” apparently.
That's an interesting Fact. I remember always making sure to steal the hamster and give it back to Ed to win over his trust
@@bonniehowell9206 It was one of those things you did once in a game before regretting it and never doing it again.
There was also an infamous tabloid headline in the UK about a rock star eating a hamster. I don’t know the date on Possibly in Michigan, the Celia Conditi film, but that might have been another influence. The protagonists talk about pet microwaving in one scene.
Ed never seemed to truly harm anyone deliberately, so he deserves his little pet back. And I’m sure the 🐹 appreciates not being nuked.
Can I get a source to Razor's real name being Rachel?
Love the mix of content on this channel.
Holy crap.
I could've sworn you've covered this game before.
Maybe you're thinking of the Let's Play she did awhile back! : )
Yeah, I swear I've seen a video from her on this game years ago.
Man I missed these videos. You're amazing!!!
Dude, I didn't even know Maniac Mansion was a game until I was an adult. My ONLY exposure to it was through the TV show when I was a kid. I actually thought they were separate things until this video brought back the memories of watching the show.