3:25 I like how the family photograph includes that green tentacle. It's nice to see it's being included in the family unit! :3

Lucasarts; A pleasurable amount of punishment. Oh my.

What? Games? I thought this was a Murder She Wrote channel!? 😜

YES! I'm so happy you haven't stopped doing games, I like the Retro TV stuff, but I was worried you had stopped retro games. Keep up the good work, Roses!

Pro tip - If you own Day of the Tentacle, then you can play Maniac Mansion on the arcade machine in one of the rooms (or for the more techy people you can actually extract it from the DoT game folder and rename one of the files to be an .exe). Or buy it on Steam for just $6 :D

My favourite KZfaqr reviewing my favourite game? Yo Roses, I love you, you da best

When Jessica Fletcher plays a Sierra game, she never dies and never dead ends despite having no idea what the hell is going on until the last puzzle of the game.

A great game. My favorite line was "Don't be a tuna head."

Your such an underrated youtuber i dont know you dont have a million followers yet

>Dissin on the verbs ROSE HOW COULD YOU?

your wit is tremendous and make your videos highly entertaining. Thank you kindly for the content.

Great video! I remember that in an interview, one of the Lucasarts developers behind the port to NES said that the worst part about the censorship was how arbitrarious it felt. Like they asked if that risqué statue was ok to keep, and they received a response from Nintendo saying that "Ok, but don't show the pubic hair". They were so befuddled by this answer that they decide to remove the statue altogether.

Another reason to get Manic Mansion 2: Day of the Tentacle, you can play the first Manic Mansion on a computer in it. Playing videogames inside videogames! Yeah!

Live action endscreen Roses! What universe have I stumbled into! ❤️

I always chose Razor or Wendy as the female sidekicks because i love seeing Wendy fixing the memoirs of the meteor & helping him with his novelist career or just doing the same with Green Tentacles music career by picking Razor ^_^ Also, yes the pointless items you can pick up are… pointless but when i played this game for the first time in 1991 or so, i LOVED the sheer amount of stuff you could pick up and try using anywhere. Up until that moment i had no idea you could do that in videogame. And i always loved this kind of playful interactive environment stuff in other games as well. Like in Duke Nukem 3D. So much to try out. It's an element that really makes a virtual world a lot more believable & fun to explore.

I bought the last copy of the NES version my video store had, and it is, in my opinion, the best game on the system for all the reasons you mentioned. I think it has the best music for the NES, too. I, too, hated the requirement of choosing Dave since Dave had zero special abilities - He served as my brick-pusher, too, and I often would send him to his death before the game was over for a hysterical end scene. I have never had a chance to play Day of the Tentacle, but I want to even more, now. (FYI: You do need to feed that plant the Pepsi to make it burp or else it will bite you if you try to climb it.)

Love this game, very fond memories from my childhood playing this.

Fun fact: The line "Don´t be a tuna head" was originally written "Don´t be a shit head" but the head of Lucasfilm Games was against any swear words. So Ron Gilbert came up with the term "tuna head" to protest against the ´censorship´. Another fun fact: They originally came up with 40 (!) different verbs but later reduced their number. Maniac mansion was one of my favorite games on my C64. My best friends also played it, actually we finished it together.

For those who are unaware, try Maniac Mansion Deluxe - it's a mind-blowingly good remake from fans!

Thanks for doing Maniac Mansion! This is actually my favorite Lucasfilm game. Not sure why, but I just love the dense complexity of this thing, even though it's not a long wound game.

Maniac Mansion, such a great game. Dont miss out on Zak Mckracken and the Alien Mindbenders if you liked Maniac Mansion

Hearing those crickets instantly hit that nostalgia spot. Loved this game but I never got very far.

The replayability of the game is quite remarkable. Even when you know all the puzzles, the act of coordinating the three people, having them in the right places at the right time with the right items and not get caught, can still be quite a challenge. And you have numerous different characters with different abilities and in turn different endings on top. Few other adventure games manage to have an environment that feels this alive and interactive, most of the later ones put far more focus on a relatively linear story and don't really offer anything new to explore when going through them a second time.

*When I played this on my Amiga 500 and 2000 back in the day, I always went with Razor and Syd, as I was a musician myself that dug both punk and new wave, so I just really identified with both... I loved the Green Tentacle's "mondo stereo"...*

Amazing thing about Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle was that there was a HUGE dedicated German fanbase for these games. They made dozens and dozens of sequels and fangames that followed up on them and told a new story. It was episodic gaming before actual developers coined the term and process. They're pretty interesting and worth checking out. They all utilize the Maniac Mansion + DOTT characters and a few other Lucas Arts games like Zak McKracken. A lot of them were translated into English as well.

I remember trying Maniac Mansion at a computer store when I was a kid, back when Commodore was actual competition in the computer market and they sold them at the same stores as PCs (IBM /Compatibles) and Apples. I fell in love and from that day forward my goal was to get a computer and play that game. I achieved that goal. I think I liked Zak McKracken more, but I loved MM. I played it through with so many character combinations, and eventually bought the hint book (guide) and found out about stuff I never knew about. Lucasarts did a great job at adventure games back in the day. I mean, you could find a chainsaw in MM but it had no gas. Then in Zak you found gas (on Mars) but it didn't do you any good because it was for the chainsaw in MM. I think they connections through a few of their earlier games, it just made playing them that much more fun. Great video, makes me want to play through MM again. Haven't played it in years.

I love Maniac Mansion! Great job on the video Roses! Keep it up!

Don't be a tuna head, Roses.

"A pleasurable amount of punishment." Oh my :O

Thank you for not forgetting us who subscribed for the gaming videos.

My favorite ending is calling the Meteor Police right before presenting Purple Meteor with a publishing contract for his manuscript, and the Meteor Police will arrest him during a TV interview. :)

So love this game along with Day of the Tentacle. If it weren't for this game, I never would have discovered Full Throttle, my fav game of all time

Really happy to see you making another videogame related video.

Roses I was a total Razor and Bernard player with Dave as the brick man. Excellent choices

As a kid, this game actually taught me about steaming envelopes open in the microwave, which I then used several times to intercept mail from school and remove my teacher's incriminating notes about me to mom.

This is officially my new favorite video of yours. I hear lots of passion in your voice during this review.

Love that you've done another classic DOS game video!

thanks for the hours of fun you already gave me with other videos. but this one is special to me! given maniac mansion is my dearest memory back to the time i had my first c64, while it's been more of a love/hate relationship, when i actually played it. given that my english skills where mediocre at best, it took me about a year to complete once. I didn't even realize, there are more ways of completing it, until you just said so and it's probably the first of the games from 'back in the days' i am actually going to replay. even so i hated how hard it was for me and how long it took me, even so i gave up in frustration countless times, i always picked it up again anyway. because i was a nerd, and hobby astronomer and scifi fan, later turned punk and than goth for a while, because of the hamster, tentacle, mummys, meteors, telescopes and so much more. thanks a thousand times for picking all of those 'just the right things' you did and making me remember.

Fun fact: The original line during design was "Don't be a shithead!" but the devs decided that was a bit too profane and changed it to tuna head, which of course nobody says, so it made the line stand out a little more. There's also a free fan-made update called Maniac Mansion Deluxe released around 2004 that has 256 colors and full audio instead of the old PC speaker beeps and boops, but you'll have to Google it to get it because shortly after it got put on abandonware sites, LucasArts (collapsed and owned by Disney now) fiercely copyright-claimed it. I recommend it highly. I noticed you pointed out the puzzles being nicer than Sierra games since it's harder to die, but there are still ways to put the game in an unwinnable state or lose outright. Obviously if you manage to kill off all the kids you lose and get the message "All the kids are dead. There's no one to stop the evil meteor's plan for world domination. Hope you like purple slime, heh heh." I think if you run out of dimes to put in the telescope you can't get the safe combo, which would make that puzzle unsolvable, and of course you pointed out being unable to re-use the envelope if you rip it makes the demo tape/manuscript impossible to ship to the publishing company. If you ship Razor or Sid's music to the publishing company instead of Green Tentacle's demo tape, Sid/Razor gets the recording contract instead of GT, so he won't help you get into the lab. LucasArts did learn from this when they got the fan feedback and going forward with games like Monkey Island they made sure not to punish the player anymore. I like that they did make the game winnable with any combination of kids because there's no way to pick a completely unskilled team, there's always at least 1 way to get past Purple Tentacle in the lab and always a method to deal with the meteor.

As much as I love your TV reviews it was nice to see another one of your classic PC game reviews. Maniac Mansion was the first adventure game I ever played, and yes Dave was assigned brick duty every single time.

Whoa! My favorite KZfaqr reviewing my favorite game from my childhood. Dreams DO come true!

You can use all the superfluous food items to feed the plant to make it bag instead of the radioactive water. The Pepsi I thought was supposed to pacify it to make it climbable.

Punks and Nerds do, indeed, go together very well. That’s why the LGR + PUR Let’s Plays are fantastic

I've admittedly never played this game, I've only seen the playthrough of the NES version that Game Grumps released back in like 2013, but this game has come to mind so many times over the years. It's so unique and has such a comedic and memorable presentation.

I remember playing this game on my old MS/DOS computer on chilly fall nights around Halloween. i still have the Lucasfilm Treasure Chest with the floppy disks and walkthrough. The walkthrough was great because it was written in narrative format in the perspective of some of the characters in the games.

You look so lovely! Thank you for choosing to include a video'ed portion at the end :)

Thank you for still doing game stuff. I like the other stuff, but games are my favorite thing from this channel.

There are some moments that do creep me out in this game.. like the abrupt way when you die it cuts to a tombstone and then you have to keep going as another character

Great video. This was my first adventure game so I’ll always have a soft spot for it. I remember trying out the NES version thinking it would be the same. I was unpleasantly surprised at how neutered it felt. Most of the humour was gone.

I took my break at work just to watch this. I always look forward to your new uploads. Thanks for the great content.

Awesome, while I lke the new direction fo the channel, I am glad that some classic computer games still get some air time. I played Maniac Mansion back then on my C64, and it was the game that got me in interested in adventure games in the first place

I’m glad you’re back to reviewing mystery games! There’s lots of other overlooked games you should be reviewing.

The hamster was microwaveable because that was how microwaves were developed. One of the earliest microwaves was created to thaw freeze dried hamsters. It’s a reference to that. I want everyone on Earth to know this fact. PS: Razor’s actual name is “Rachel,” apparently.

This is easily my favorite game of all time -- Syd and Bernard were always my picks. I've had such a blast watching all these videos on your channel of all of these old games. I grew up playing all these DOS games and I feel like very few people I ever talk to have ever played or heard of them. I feel like games back then had a different kind of audience than now. Hell, even installing half these things were their own puzzle -- Sound card port settings? IRQ? DMA channel? God help if you if 1 of your 11 Gabriel Knight disks malfunctioned!

Yes! I loved this game. Will definitely listen on my lunch break. Keep up the great content

This was very fun and made me smile as wide as a shark seeing this video pay good tribute and give a sincere review of this game and it's history. Thanks for the video PushingUpRoses!

Absolutely love your videos, I always get excited when you post. Have an awesome day!

I found it interesting how differently you played it! I first played this game in high school on the C64. I found you could play all three characters and as you collect more keys you could use the mother/ed to teleport you back to the bottom. My one complaint is probably that - the further you got in the game the easier by magnitude it gets. The game also has a lot of dead-ends - for instance you can launch the car into space without the meteor.

I still think the availability of death really helped set the mood for Sierra games and when it was done well, it made the situation tense and interesting... and when it wasn't... well it wasn't. It should be noted that Lucas Arts games where "danger" was an actual thing, still had death (Dang Atlantis, I died fighting a bouncer?)

I love your channel. I loved all these games as a kid, and outside of one group of friends, no one ever heard of them. Plus I a m huge Murder She Wrote fan. That theme song gets me hyped all the time.

Oh cool! I never knew that Maniac Mansion was originally designed as a pen and paper game! It's kind of a coincidence that I learned this while I've been working on a cheesy horror pen and paper campaign for my friends! Great video!

Dude, I didn't even know Maniac Mansion was a game until I was an adult. My ONLY exposure to it was through the TV show when I was a kid. I actually thought they were separate things until this video brought back the memories of watching the show.

Thank you for all the wonderful critique you've made. I really do look forward to the next chance encounter a fellow glasses pusher has to fill my ears.

I used to roll dice to decide which kids would accompany Dave each time I played. One of the best C64 games I ever played.

Poor Dave. The only character as nearly useless was Syd who had Razors skills. I was hardcore about MM when I was young. I had the original non censored NES cart by chance. Fun fact most people don't know- on that cart when you put the hamster in the microwave, you can take him out without opening the microwave door. This sometimes creates a duplicated hamster in your inventory with glitched name. Unfortunately you can't do anything with it, it just stays there like a brick. I also watched the show. I was disappointed that it wasn't faithful at all beyond the names of the ed gaming. It had Joe Flaherty, so that was a plus.

Had this for my amiga 500, such good memories

Great video! My favorite team is Razor and Bernard too. Dave usually finds his end at the bottom of the swimming pool.

This is really nostalgic. Great video!

Good job on focusing on the humor and culture here. It is where it shines.

THANK YOU! I vaguely remember the show from when I was younger and I've been trying to remember what it was for YEARS! My quest is at an end.

That's not a broken mirror piece, that's a huge- and incredibly sharp- piece of metal! Of course it's going to cut you badly! Also, Roger actually does pick up a broken piece of glass in the first Space Quest game, but that piece of glass was small and had smooth edges.

Great video. I love your TV stuff but I'm always happy to see you talk about games and this is one I played a good bit as a kid on the NES. Some good humor in this video as well.

Oh, I lived in this game. Also...any plans to cover the Maniac Mansion tv show?

I'll happily watch any content you make because it's always amusing and high quality, but I am happy to see you haven't stopped doing video game reviews :D

Great to see you review this game! I first played it on a PC with CGA graphics and an abnormally loud sound cue for the water valve that really annoyed my mom. I still have the NES version and break it out every other year or so. I never knew you could kill the hamster.

I was soooo looking forward to this. Nothing like a potpourri of Murder She Wrote and Point 'n Clicks.

I played this on the C64 when I was about 7 and it made me physically sick with fear.

Conditional platonic love ? To quote Color Me Badd "What more could a man ask for ?"

There's a face in the "blank" page of the journal where you wrote the passwords. Kind of eerie. I like it

I totally would love more let's plays. But hey, I got sent work to do tomorrow, so yay! But thank-you for helping to make lockdown more bearable.

Love your adventure game videos PUR! So many classic titles you bring to life. Keep up the good work!

IM SO HAPPY YOU FINALLY DID A VIDEO ON THIS GAME 💖

Another great video. I love all your video and constantly rewatch them. I just want to thank you. Anytime I see an upload I instantly click. Thanks for helping me through with another one of your amazing uploads.

Maniac Mansion and King's Quest were two of the first games I ever remember playing on our old Tandy computer in the late 80s.

I'm just finding out about your channel and you are amazing. This game was awesome. I played as a kid. It scared me as a kid believe it or not. I finally beat it last year. Each character has a certain path to take to beat the game. Once was enough lol. Great channel.

My favorite NES game evAR....thanks ☝️🌹 this was what I needed today

Great video! I love your sense of humor!

Funny, Maniac Mansion, both the game and the show, were brought up today in Brad Jones’ live stream today. I remember watching it on The Family Channel.

This is the one with the hamster and the microwave! I love it when KZfaq channel content crosses over.

11:14 Phil Collins in the background again. 😉 Same photo my brother and I each got when we sent fan mail to him. 🎶

This isn't a horror game?? When I took my character into the kitchen and walked all the way to the right it scared the shit out of me when the nurse caught you! Karma back in DOTT though, easily one of the best sequels to a game I've ever played.

so as for the show - was actually made here in Canada, Eugene Levy was the main guy behind it, George Lucas himself signed off on the show, and it's essentially an attempt by SCTV to adapt a licensed product.

Oh man, the TV series! I had almost forgotten about that! I watched way too much YTV as a kid!

I played Maniac Mansion when it first came out on the Commodore 64 when I was a kid. I also watched the TV show when it was on. I always thought of the Maniac Mansion TV show as being a lot like the Addams Family or Munsters. Like it was clearly aimed at kids, but it was weird enough that kids thought it was subversive and maybe they shouldn't be watching it, but wholesome enough that if their parents saw them watching it they wouldn't get in trouble. I always hoped there would be some references to the game in the TV as easter eggs (before I knew what easter eggs in media were), but I found them to be extremely rare. I hoped that maybe one day Dave or Sandy or Razor (I hated Bernard in the game - he probably hit too close to home) would make an appearance as a kid from the neighborhood or something. But I don't recall anything like that every happening.

Seeing this video in my feed was perfect affirmation that I subbed to the right channel.

In my childhood, we were never able to afford a pc, but I was always fascinated by pc games I saw in issues of Video Games and Computer Entertainment. This game, along with Shadowgate, Deja Vu, and Uninvited were the closest I got to pc gaming, and they were always some of my favorite NES games.

Yes!! I love all your videos but the classic adventure game videos are the best! I was SO happy that you chose one of my favorite LucasArts titles!

My first point and click adventure game that made me fall in love with the genre. A pleasure watching you cover it.

I've been on the 2nd or 3rd watching marathon of your content, and I gotta say you're hilarious and entertaining!!

MM is one of the best games of all time. My Aunt gave me my original Nintendo, along with MM, so it's been with me as long as I've been gaming. Still have my original copy and you'll have to pry it from my dead hands before i'd ever let it go.