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Maniac Mansion 2: Day of the Tentacle (PC) ( Screenshot)
The game uses only a handful of the more neurotic characters from the original Maniac Mansion game, but to great effect. The story is an intricate one, involving Dr. Fred Edison, mad scientist extraordinaire, his wife Nurse Edna, their son Weird Ed, and the Doctor's two creations, a pair of intelligent ambulatory tentacles, Purple Tentacle and Green Tentacle; all of these characters are recurring from Maniac Mansion. Purple Tentacle drinks large quantities of toxic waste which pour from Dr. Fred's lab, turning him into an evil genius bent on world domination (what else?). Bernard Bernoulli, a nerdy nebbish who was one of several possible playable characters in Maniac Mansion, returns as the main protagonist of the game; he manages to set Purple Tentacle loose, and Dr. Fred attempts to send him and his friends Hoagie and Laverne back in time in order to stop Purple Tentacle drinking the toxic waste in the first place.
Unfortunately, the cheap imitation diamond in Dr. Fred's time machine fails, leaving Hoagie 200 years in the past, Laverne 200 years in the future (a future dominated by tentacles) and Bernard still in the present. Bernard, with the assistance of budding rock star Green Tentacle, has to find a non-imitation diamond in order to make the time machine functional once more, and Hoagie and Laverne both have to get back to their time machines and connect them to a power source, in order to team up again and finally defeat Purple Tentacle. The game utilizes the three time streams effectively, with several puzzles depending on actions in one era affecting the other eras.
One of the most notable features of Day of the Tentacle was that it featured the entire original Maniac Mansion built into the game. To play it, simply use Weird Ed's computer (on the Mac, the computer needs to be used five times in a row).
The game was released simultaneously on floppy disk and CD-ROM, with the CD-ROM version featuring a full voiceover soundtrack. It was designed by Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer.
To play this game on modern computers you can use the ScummVM.