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Maniac Mansion
Verb-menu interface and swappable kid characters launched SCUMM and the LucasArts adventure line.
Mechanics it built on
Ideas Maniac Mansion inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.
Directly influenced
The Maniac Mansion series in this dataset
1987
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