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21st February 2012

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mapstalgia: Maniac Mansion’s (NES), Mansion, by katiecrimespree. This was the first point and click, open ended game I had ever played. It blew my mind. I remember running around the mansion, terrified I’d bump into Edna, with her beady eyes and zombie shade, convinced there was no limit to what I could do in game. The characters, running around with their CD players blasting their favorite tunes, remains one of the most innovative deliveries of a soundtrack I’ve ever seen, and I still listen to the tunes on a regular basis. The perfect mix of style, humor, and terror, Maniac Mansion was its own eccentric masterpiece. Bonus nonsense: here’s the map my twelve year old self made for the sequel I was drawing up. [Josh says: oh hell YES Maniac Mansion.  I played it on the PC rather than the NES (I didn’t realize until years later that they even made a NES release, and here is a really fascinating writeup of the porting/sanitizing process that went on). Your rendering here is just great; 12-year-old you’s sequel map is wonderful.]

mapstalgia:

Maniac Mansion’s (NES), Mansion, by katiecrimespree.

This was the first point and click, open ended game I had ever played. It blew my mind. I remember running around the mansion, terrified I’d bump into Edna, with her beady eyes and zombie shade, convinced there was no limit to what I could do in game. The characters, running around with their CD players blasting their favorite tunes, remains one of the most innovative deliveries of a soundtrack I’ve ever seen, and I still listen to the tunes on a regular basis. The perfect mix of style, humor, and terror, Maniac Mansion was its own eccentric masterpiece.

Bonus nonsense: here’s the map my twelve year old self made for the sequel I was drawing up.

[Josh says: oh hell YES Maniac Mansion.  I played it on the PC rather than the NES (I didn’t realize until years later that they even made a NES release, and here is a really fascinating writeup of the porting/sanitizing process that went on).

Your rendering here is just great; 12-year-old you’s sequel map is wonderful.]

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