Maniac Mansion

adventure game for Commodore 64, 1987

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The Edison mansion has always been a creepy old house on the edge of town.
There have been rumors of strange experiments going on and of odd creatures
living amongst the Edison family. There is even a story that a meteorite once
crashed near the home nearly 20 years ago. More immediately, a girl named
Sandy has gone missing from the local highschool and her boyfriend Dave
swears that he saw Dr. Fred abducting her. Dave knows that he cannot do it
alone and will need help from two other students if he has any hope of
infiltrating the mansion and rescuing Sandy.

Players start by choosing two students to accompany Dave to the Edison
mansion, and can then switch between these three characters at will. Most
actions are carried out by selecting verbs on the screen and applying them to
an object (such as "OPEN Door"). Each character maintains a separate
personality and may have a different way to solve a problem from his
classmates. Thus many of the puzzles can be overcome in different ways
depending on the character being used. If any one of the kids are captured by
the Edisons, they are thrown into the dungeon and must be rescued themselves
by any character who still has their freedom.

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Some useful keyboard shortcuts
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       [PAUSE] - stop/continue game
          [F9] - quick load game state
         [F12] - quick save game state (still stored after leaving the site)
         [F11] - toggle fullscreen mode
  [ScrollLock] - quick switch control ports
    [PageDown] - make a screenshot (320x200)