TITLE
The Untold Story of Maniac Mansion
AUTHOR
Douglas Crockford
PUBLICATION
Wired
YEAR
1993
ARTICLE TYPE
Postmortem
FROM THE ARTICLE
Back in 1990, I was the on-the-edge new-media-technology guy at the LucasArts Entertainment Company, a spin-off of George Lucas’s Lucasfilm Ltd. in Marin County, California. Most of my work was (if I may say so myself) “out there,” but sometimes I would take on more mundane projects to help out.One such project was the Nintendo version of Maniac Mansion, which was originally created for the Commodore 64 and the Apple II. This was going to be LucasArt’s first Nintendo cartridge. It was an important project, but management was overloaded and the project was slipping between the cracks. I volunteered to manage its completion.
COMPANIES MENTIONED
LucasArts
Nintendo
GAMES MENTIONED
Maniac Mansion
PLATFORMS MENTIONED
Nintendo Entertainment System [NES]
ALTERNATE LINK
Archived Copy @ Internet Archive
PRINT AVAILABILITY
September/October 1993 (Volume 1, Issue 4)