Maniac Mansion

If there's no food around, you won't get that option.

This reminded me of all those LucasArts-type games, you know, Maniac Mansion, Labyrinth.

It just really has that kind of feel where you're moving around on the screen, and then there are text options down below that you could do to interact with things.

Of course, this has been a struggle in these types of games for forever.

And I'm Aaron.

And today, Aaron, we're talking about Maniac Mansion.

Ooh, I think I live there.

I was going to say, you've been described by various relatives as a freak magnet.

His exact words were, that's a bad look with the Lord.

Then he moved on.

And so anyway, I can't think of any better way to move on than to move on to Maniac Mansion.

Yeah.

Oh that's

like one of the nightmare scenarios you used to hear about at school with like I don't know a young team showing up and putting somebody's hamster in a microwave and that's also for Maniac Mansion but did it also happen at ****** house? There's going to be a lot of bleeps in this one

Also we didn't adjust yet everybody is his best mate so you'd be his best mate you'd be like that he's my best mate he's my best mate one of them guys you know one of them guys that are very very one-dimensional in public events like they don't really have any friends that you can work with but they're everybody's friend do you know what i mean they're all singing all dancing i'm friends with everybody but they've really not got any friends in the traditional sense of the word It's very, what do you call that? Very performative.

Aye.

Yeah, they did a lot of good stuff.

Maniac Mansions.

Especially, like, their late 80s through 90s.

Like, everything was

We should say for

the audio, this is Maniac Mansion.

It's the game we're talking about.

Maniac Mansion.

Now, me and Brent played this.

Believe it or not, Boat, I have reviewed this once, but it was the NES version with Brent on ARG.

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Um, yeah, and that was really, like, as a tiny kid, the thing that got me interested in games.

I remember writing in a letter to them that I got published, uh, which was very exciting, with some, like, tips for Maniac Mansion, I believe.

And, uh, yes, and that was my first experience.

And then it was sort of when I was a teenager that I started-- I picked up a copy of Edge Magazine and was immediately on board with that and it just sort of-- the way in which that magazine wrote about video games as culture, as, you know, serious objects of-- to be criticized and written about, uh, with wonderful features, all of that.