Maniac Mansion

Story

The game takes place in the mansion of the fictional Edison family: Dr. Fred, a mad scientist, Nurse Edna, his wife, and their son Weird Ed. Living with the Edisons are two large, disembodied tentacles, one purple and the other green. The introductory sequence shows that twenty years earlier a sentient meteor crashed near the mansion, brainwashing the Edisons and instructing Dr. Fred to obtain human brains for his experiments. The game begins as Dave Miller prepares to enter the mansion to rescue his girlfriend Sandy Pantz, who has been kidnapped by Dr. Fred. With the exception of the green tentacle, the inhabitants of the mansion are hostile and throw the player characters into the dungeon or, in some situations, kill them when they see them. When a character dies, the player must choose a replacement from the unselected characters; and the game ends when all characters have been killed. Maniac Mansion has five possible endings, depending on which characters are selected, which survive and what the characters achieve.