Red Tentacle

Red Tentacle allows owners of the NES version of Maniac Mansion to play it on the computer, without having to use a gamepad! It also supports keyboard shortcuts, autosave, and a whole bunch of save slots.

The NES port was a great version of the game, but anyone that's played it knows it was pretty tedious to move the cursor around the screen using the D-pad, back and forth to the commands, inventory items, and things in the environment.

"OK, so just play the PC version!" Well sure, but the PC version is not quite the same and doesn't have any music; I prefer the version made for the grey box. "Alright, well why not just play it in an emulator?" Great! OK... click.. click.. hmm, the mouse doesn't work.. because the NES didn't have a mouse! You still need to use the arrow keys or a gamepad to push the cursor around.. painfully... slowly...

Red Tentacle is the solution! It's the best way to play the console version of Maniac Mansion. Red Tentacle gives you an actual point-n-click interface, and even provides verb & inventory keyboard shortcuts that will have you tearing through the mansion in record time. Got locked in the basement? Switch to another kid like a boss with a single keypress. Made a mistake? Load up an autosave, or restore a save from one of 12 save slots.

You must own a copy of the original game in order to play Maniac Mansion using Red Tentacle. Just dust off your old cartridge, make a personal backup on your computer in the form of an NES ROM, load it up in Red Tentacle, and head on into the mansion!

Here's one device that you can use to make a legal backup copy of your Maniac Mansion cartridge:

http://www.infiniteneslives.com/kazzo.php

This video shows how to use the device to create an NES ROM personal backup file:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeBMFMoH_B0

System requirements

Windows Vista or newer, OpenGL, DirectX 7 or newer, 32MB RAM, 20MB disk space

DISCLAIMER NOTICE

Red Tentacle is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with Nintendo, LucasArts, the owners of Maniac Mansion, or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates. Additionally, the owners of Red Tentacle will not be liable for any illegal uses of this software.