Maniac Mansion

EDIT: I got rid of the grainy mess, and I fixed a lot of the coloring issues. (Like Wendy's skin... olive complexions beat me up O.o)

Well, I'm sure that this is before almost everyone's time, but this is a dos game that I used to have WAAAYYY back... I have always been a LucasArts fan, and I just felt like painting a "thank you" to them by painting something old school. This was kind of a redesign for their original box art. Oddly enough, the original didn't have Michael, Wendy or Sandy.... I always thought that it was kind of strange (even though you couldn't pick Sandy as a playable character, since she's the reason you are going to the mansion).

Game synopsis according to Wikipedia:
Maniac Mansion takes place in the mansion of the Edison family: Dr. Fred, Nurse Edna, and their son Weird Ed. Living with the Edisons are two large, disembodied tentacles – one purple and the other green. The intro sequence shows that a meteor crashed near the mansion twenty years earlier. The sentient meteor took control of the family and caused Dr. Fred to start sucking out human brains for use in experiments; his family supported and encouraged him in these efforts. One day, main protagonist Dave Miller's girlfriend, cheerleader Sandy Pantz, disappears without a trace, and he suspects that Dr. Fred has kidnapped her. After the game's introduction, Dave and his two companions prepare to enter the mansion to rescue Sandy; the game starts with a prompt for the player to select two of six characters to accompany Dave.

Here's a short bit about the characters:
Dave - Dave is Sandy's boyfriend. When he's not rushing into strange mansions to rescue cheerleaders, he's running for class president.
Syd - Syd is a talented musician, who is trying to get his own band started. He can really jam on the piano.
Michael - Michael is an excellent photographer who takes photo's for the school newspaper.
Wendy - Wendy is a budding writer who works for the school newspaper, she's waiting for her big break as a novelist.
Bernard - Bernard is highly intelligent, and also highly paranoid. He's scared of everything.
Razor - Razor is a punk rocker with some serious musical talent. She is tough as nails and scared of nothing.
Jeff - Jeff is a surfer dude who loves hanging out at the beach.
Sandy - Sandy is a cheerleader and Dave's girlfriend. She's been kidnapped and is being held captive by Dr. Fred.

I changed all of their outfits (some more than others) and their looks overall to make them more modern than mid-80s. I also put another LucasArts game logo on every single character! All but one use the original SCUMM engine that LucasArts created... the ole point and click adventure games that I really miss... Though I have to admit, even now, some of the puzzles in those games are still really hard!! (Namely the Monkey Islands and Zak McKraken....) But among those logos are Sam and Max, Grim Fandango, The Labyrinth, LOOM, The Dig, and Full Throttle.

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© Painting and linework belong to BananaSquared and BananaWork 2006-2012 all rights reserved