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Maniac Mansion

by | NES, Retro Games

Written By Todd Peden

Konami Code FTW Perfect score if you get the version where Sid can put a hamster in the microwave. rating-10-of-10 Almost perfect score if you play the censored version. Either way this game is incredible and we haven’t seen it’s like since it was made. The number of different endings and solutions depending on which team of three you take into the Mansion is mind boggling for an 8-bit game. Just phenomenally well executed and innovative. Plus they got away with sticking a hamster in a microwave, which was pretty ballsy.

Written By Todd Peden

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