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Fan-made Maniac Mansion 256 Color Remake

Posted by Hemos on from the Hope-you-don't-get-a-cease-and-desist dept.

xDCDx writes "LucasFan Games have just released an impressive 256 color remake of Maniac Mansion. There is a sequel to Zak McKracken available too. Their website is scarce in details, but the games speak for themselves. It seems the perfect timing for this release, now that LucasArts is obsessed with killing the graphical adventure genre. (If only Ron Gilbert would buy Monkey Island rights and made Monkey Island 3a: The Real Story...)"

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  1. Woo and yay by oberondarksoul · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Perhaps fan-inspired efforts like this will convince Lucasarts to resume development of the cancelled Sam & Max sequel they were making? Apart from Monkey Island, Lucasarts appear not to care for the genre they brought so much to in the early Nineties.

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    1. Re:Woo and yay by Troed · · Score: 5, Interesting

      My girlfriend bought Day of the Tentacle (compilation CD with Sam & Max) a few months ago. We played on on the big screen via DosXbox (DOS emu ported to the Xbox). Extreme nostalgia.

      The idea to run it on the Xbox came after it refused to work under Win2K until I used Dosbox, and I knew that Dosbox had been ported to the Xbox. It took some setting up to map the needed keys, but it was worth it. Much more fun to sit two in a sofa and play vs sitting in front of the computer.

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  2. Best. Game. Ever. by L3WKW4RM · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The NES version of Maniac Mansion is to this day my favorite game ever. I discover new things about it still after all these years.

    It was actually a very interesting ordeal for the development team to get the game approved by Nintendo, The Expurgation of Maniac Mansion for the NES gives some insight into how bland they required their games to be in those days.

    The sequel, Day of the Tentacle, for PC was great as well. It's a shame that this game genre has died out.

  3. A remake of Maniac Mansion is all fine and good... by isolationism · · Score: 5, Interesting
    ... But how will we ever make a sequel to Grim Fandango? By today's standards the engine is unremarkable. A remake could have more detailed graphics with the scenes rendered realtime; the characters were designed for very low-polycount rendering already.

    What really set Grim Fandango apart was the writing, and the audio. The music and the voice acting were second to none. Without them the game loses its character.

    In any event, the remakes likely won't get much further without having to start lifting audio, too -- I'm fairly certain LucasArts started doing that not long after Maniac Mansion 2...