Diving into the history of Maniac Mansion

[schala]

Some of you might get a kick out of this particular episode of Memory Card, a podcast that deals with gaming history. I stumbled upon these guys some time ago and they’re awesome, so give them a listen!
I’m giving the Apple Podcast link but you can find other available services at: Podcast — Memory Card
‎Memory Card: SCUMM of the Earth on Apple Podcasts

[Nor_Treblig]

Thanks, I just listened to it and it’s well researched.
And it was a Halloween episode, so nearly listened to it in time

Btw. we’ve heard comments about the Maniac Mansion TV show in Thimbleweed Park Podcast #29: @23:00…26:28

[a.ammo]

cool. will listen to this show. We also talked about the maniac mansion TV show with Ron a bit here:

The hypothetical "Ron gets Maniac Mansion IP" thread

When the game was licensed for TV, it started out very close to the show. Gary and I had no say in how the show developed. We did get a “memo” every few weeks with changes they were making. After a few months, it was just comical. It was basically handed over to the production company (not Lucasfilm) and they changed what they wanted. It’s unclear if they people developing the show even played the game (probably not, games we far from mainstream back then).

The hypothetical "Ron gets Maniac Mansion IP" thread

Because Lucasfilm had a licensing department, and their job was to go out and convince people to license stuff, and apparently they did a good job. Licensing video games was new back then, and I think Lucasfilm Licensing was curious. They were also in the same building as us, on the 2nd floor.