Maniac Mansion

The Maniac Mansion game for NES is a platform quest, which was the first game in this genre. The gameplay introduced innovations such as the possibility of choosing different characters, with different abilities and different endings to the game.

In the story Maniac Mansion, one day a meteorite falls near a scientist's mansion and twelve years later a girl named Sandy disappears in the area. Her boyfriend, named Dave Miller, the protagonist of the game, goes in search of her beloved. To explore the mansion and find his girlfriend, Dave takes a couple of friends with him. The ending of the game depends on which friends Dave takes. Friends can be chosen at the beginning of the game, from the six presented. Each character has his own special skills and appearance.

The gameplay of the game at the time of release was original, the player's movement is carried out with the pointer, you can make various actions with items and objects by selecting the option in the menu. Even in English, the game is intuitive, the words in the menu are all simple, and the story is more or less clear what to do. The game has a lot of useless perdets and hints, which players have criticized. For example, you won't be able to use such an item as a chainsaw because there's simply no gasoline in the game.

All in all, Maniac Mansion is an interesting quest with humorous moments and choices of actions on which the end of the game depends. The story is filled with all possible elements from horror movies - tentacles, aliens, zombies, etc.