"point & click" board games

[Nor_Treblig]

I recently watched an interview of Bill Tiller and somebody mentioned he owns Haunted Mansion Game (1972).

Looking this up led me to a much more recent board game: Scooby-Doo: Escape from the Haunted Mansion (2020).

It’s basically Maniac Mansion / SCUMM!

• You have multiple rooms.
• You collect inventory items.
• You can use those items on objects in the rooms.
• There are multiple characters (it’s a co-op game).
• You have multiple verbs (each character has its own, e.g. Scooby-Doo can smell, Velma can research etc.).

(I’ve learned this from watching this video: How to Play video by Tantrum House)

Also see:

The original unreleased Maniac Mansion board game

Does the concept for this original game still exist? Or did it went the way of the lego pirate ship? Would it have been close to a potentially releaseable state? Or would it be no fun to play after the original rules? Maybe if you tweaked it a bit, could a fan made version maybe be a non commercial project for the future? This sounds interesting.