Has anyone discovered anything in Maniac Manzion and Zak McKracken they want to share

[lassie]

I liked the NES version, myself. Sweet soundtrack, and a bit nicer graphics. Though it does suck to not have a mouse.

I still play the NES version from time to time

[lassie]

The NES version originally allowed you to put the hamster in the Microwave.

Once Nintendo became wise to this, they forced lucas Arts (or who ever) to remove that option.


I am currently playing through maniac Mansion Deluxe via ScummVM on my DSiXL.

Yes Nintendo had some strange rules back then, the same when i play Wolfenstein on the SNES, the dog are rats, and Hitler has no mustage, it looks quite weird

[lassie]

And they later removed Hitler's exploding head from the end of Bionic Commando too. :/

Yes that is right But Nintendo realised that they made a mistake when they released Mortal Kombat without the blood, the Sega Genesis sold more than 3 times the copies than the SNES, so when they released Mortal Kombat 2 there was all the blood in it

[lassie]

Nintendo's policies have been all over the place when you look back through their history. But thats just nintendo for you and I suppose, depending how you look at it, they did help shape some of the current policies in gaming.
 
As for Maniac Mansion.
 
I never finished it. The only Lucas game that I couldn't do.

What policies do you mean?

[lassie]

Stuff to do with what can be shown in a game and what can't. I have a book somewhere with a history of Nintendo and about the early days but it was only the sort of early ish days of it all upto the mid 90's. it was also well known that Nintendo would lock developers into some pretty ridgid clauses in order to get an approved by nintendo sticker.

Yes that is right, they did do a lot of things, when one look at there history.

What is that with your Amiga 600??

[lassie]

I don't have it any more. I had bee strugelling with it a while and in the end I decided to trade it in and get some cash for pimping out my 1200. Kind of miss it but I was strugelling with ECS for the things I wanted to do.

Okay i hope you got some good money for it, so you can give your 1200 an upgrade
But still i can understand you miss it. Do you need AGA for the things you want to do?

[lassie]

Yeah. Some of the games I want to play perform better with AGA plus I want to play some of the Doom clones.

I must admit i play a lot of those Doom clones, and many are quite good. What will you put in your A 1200? an 030 CPU maybe

[lassie]

Yeah thats what I am looking at.

I have an Apollo 1230 35 Mhz and 34 MB RAM in mine and it runs many Doom clones quite well. I could not afford something bigger, but i am happy with it