Maniac Mansion by Lucasarts (then Lucasfilm) was released back in 1987 and was a truly revolutionary adventure game. It was after all developed and designed -mainly- by Ron Gilbert and was the original point-and-click adventure. The ur-adventure if you will. What you see above are images from the PC EGA version (oil, on canvas, on scanner).
Clearly, a game that respects all the disrespect on B-movie thrillers. What a gameplay also!
ReplyDeleteIf you like Maniac Mansion you should check out Maniac Mansion Mania. Most of the games are in german language but there also many translated games.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.maniac-mansion-mania.com/index.php?lang=en
Amazing they did traditional oil paintings for the game covers then.. I guess there wasn't much choice if you wanted detail..
ReplyDelete- just swinging by for my once a year post! :/
So it seems these days- Slowly getting back to things over here..
HoHum!
@ Dualnames: Exactly so dear Dualnames. Quite a tough one though.
ReplyDelete@ Cyro: Excellent stuff indeed. Besides I could give my German a try.
@ Deitrix: Yes, and quite great. All of Lucasarts covers were proper paintings and many of them by Steve Purcell. Always great seeing you around my friend!