Maniac Mansion (DOS)

Maniac Mansion
Developer: Lucasfilm Games Publisher: Lucasfilm Games Platform: DOS Released in US: October 1987 This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden level select.

The Day Before The Tentacle!

Debug Mode

Both of the versions have a hidden Debug mode. The method of accessing it is mostly the same-- enter a command and press the F7 key. But the command itself is different between versions-- on the original version, the command is !a%ifyou*ve; on the enhanced version, the command is instead *ch4mysocks (use the typewriter keys on the keys on the keyboard for entering *, not the key on the numeric keypad.)

Commands

To do: What does "something" mean?

• Shift-D - Displays the running scripts
• Shift-G - Goto room
• Shift-O - Get object in room
• Shift-S - Set variable
• Shift-Z - Display hex data from memory
• Shift-/ - "Something"
• Esc - Redraw screen

Unused Death

Normally, after growing the man-eating plant with radioactive water, the player is supposed to use a can of pepsi to calm it enough to climb it to the observatory. However, by using debug the player can skip this and access the room above. If the player then leaves down the hatch, they will disappear and be eaten by the plant. This suggests that originally the player could climb the plant prematurely before giving it the pepsi, resulting in a death. It is unknown why this was removed.