If you don’t finish it by July 2018, then I will find you. And I will … you! 
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I didn’t realize nor expect that MM wasn’t available on GOG. I thought that the most famous Lucas games were already there.
Well, people always go :“But DOTT Remastered is there and that has all of MM in it!” whenever it is demanded.
While that is true, I’ve always been unhappy with that solution since it’s the V1 version. I’m excited to have a solution for playing the V2 version of Maniac Mansion now, and I started last night. I’ve never actually played it all the way through, I’m embarrassed to say, but I intend to fix that now.
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The Remastered version has v2 (hence ‘remastered’). Only the original English version of DOTT had v1 (i.e. the German already had v2 back then).
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I didn’t know that - I have the remastered DOTT, I should check that out.
And you can use DoubleFine Explorer to extract the original data files.
Oh interesting, I assumed they would just be available to the OS Filesystem in the install directory. I guess not. In any case, I’ve purchased MM in my steam account now, so it’s not really needed, other than just for curiosity.
http://www.maniacmansionfan.50webs.com/versions.html
In Day of the Tentacle
The whole Maniac Mansion game is included as a nostalgia bonus in Day of the Tentacle (even though I think this “bonus” is the better of the two games!), released in 1993. You access it by using the computer in Ed’s room. You will get either version 1 or version 2, depending on the language in which you’re playing Day of the Tentacle. This is because version 1 was not translated to as many languages as version 2, so it was not always available in the proper language. When version 1 exists in the language in which you’re playing (which is the case if you’re playing in English), you will get version 1. Otherwise you will get version 2.
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Right now Thimbleweed Park is not showing up in the “More Like This” area - but it should! It will probably help if people go in and tag the game with the same tags that are on Thimbleweed Park (especially the “Ron Gilbert” tag since that one doesn’t apply to most other games). Even if the game already has a tag, the more people who add those tags, the more weight it will give.
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This was the case in the original (not remastered) version of DOTT.
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so the news page on steam mentions:
The games noted above, and the likes of Terrible Toybox’s recent retro-adventure Thimbleweed Park, owe much of their success and appeal to Maniac Mansion.
and
Correction: Double Fine boss Tim Schafer has made some truly great adventures over the years, but Thimbleweed Park actually comes from Terrible Toybox, an indie studio founded by former LucasArts stalwarts Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick.
while both statements are true, apparently Steam seemed to have wrongly accredited TWP to DF/Tim Schafer and from the correction I gather that they still don’t get that TWP was made by exactly the same guys as MM!
Working in the marketing industry, I’m absolutely not surprised by this. Actually, I find it quite normal.
It always seems like people consider @RonGilbert, Time Schafer and Dave Grossman to be just heads of the same three-headed Dev Monkey.
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That’s an article from PC Gamer, syndicated to Steam, so it’s nothing Steam posted themselves. The story initially credited Thimbleweed Park to Double Fine and then they fixed it. (If you hadn’t seen the original version, then the correction at the bottom is a little confusing.)
Usually people completely forget about Dave Grossman. So it’s more like a two-headed uhm… squirrel!!
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Thanks for that info, I wasn’t aware.
So I stand corrected and would like to update my earlier accusations: PC gamer, get your research right (just look it up on google and Wikipedia if you don’t know). Steam, you guys are just lazy.
I think it’s
- Dave Grossman
- Dave Gilbert
- Ron Gilbert
and it’s called Trinity.
Interesting indeed. Until now, they published all LucasArts adventures as actual Windows ports, iIrc. No one understood why they went through this effort after all those years when ScummVM was already there doing a great job, and cross platform.
Not exactly “all of MM”, but people always mentioned DOTT since it simply was the only way to get it legally for a long time.
They were in the original DOS version.
And be aware when trying to play the German version of Maniac Mansion on actual DOS: The mailbox does not work in any version with the code protection removed. ScummVM does not have this bug.
For those who don’t have DOTT installed? Though again there was a difference AFAIK. English DOTT had v1 and German definitely v2/Enhanced in it.
Edit: As always I should first read the thread and then answer to avoid duplicate content.
Edit2: But again throwing in the info that DOTT has versions with copy protection removed. Not sure if it was hacked away or if back then the launcher/game scripts supported the secret parameter to circumvent it, like it was the case with the later games.