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Maniac Mansion

Verb-menu interface and swappable kid characters launched SCUMM and the LucasArts adventure line.

Released 1987 Developer LucasArts Platform Commodore 64 Genre Point-and-Click Adventure Era 8- and 16-bit

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Maniac Mansion inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Flip-Screen Room Graph 1980Character Classes 1981In-Engine Cutscene 1984

Directly influenced

The Secret of Monkey Island 1990

The Maniac Mansion series in this dataset

1987
Maniac Mansion this page
1993

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