Retronauts Episode 122: Maniac Mansion

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

30 years ago, Lucasfilm Games gave us Maniac Mansion: an unassuming little adventure created by people who never dabbled in the genre before. But this lack of conventional wisdom caused Maniac Mansion to be an adventure game unlike anything else in existenceand one that would shape the future of Lucas' game division for years to come. On this episode of Retronauts, join Bob Mackey, Jeremy Parish, Mikel Reparaz, and Phil Kollar as the crew ponders the joys of Ron Gilbert's B&E simulator.

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0:00.0	This week on RetroNots, we are all tuna heads.
0:03.2	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
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1:30.2	Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of RetroNots.
1:33.0	I'm your host for this week, Bob Mackie.
1:34.7	And today's episode is all about Maniac Mansion, one of my favorite games of all time.
1:38.6	We did a Maniac Mansion episode in 2012 for one-up,
1:41.4	but that was an interview episode with Ron Gilbert.
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