Maniac Mansion Description
<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>players start by choosing two students to accompany dave to the edison mansion, and can then switch between these three characters at will.</p><p>most actions are carried out by selecting verbs on the screen and applying them to an object (such as âopen doorâ). 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.</p><p>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.</p>
