Maniac Mansion Walkthrough

MANIAC MANSION WALKTHROUGH v1.2

==1. About this FAQ========================================================

Game: Maniac Mansion

Developer: LucasArts

Platform: so many

FAQ Type: Walkthrough

Version: 1.2 (Final)

Author: Christophe Desmecht (aka Capricorn, aka Cappy, aka Cappinator)

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==2. Contents==============================================================

1. About this FAQ

2. Contents

3. Copyright notice

4. Contact info

5. A few comments

6. Game Solution: Dave and Syd

7. Game Solution: Dave and Michael

8. Game Solution: Dave and Wendy

9. Game Solution: Dave and Bernard

10.Game Solution: Dave and Razor

11.Final word

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==3. Copyright notice======================================================

for commercial use. You may post this FAQ on your website freely provided

you keep it with full FAQ info and Copyright notice intact. I would also

appreciate being notified of any such posting, to do so send me an email at

cd@narf.be and mention the URL of your site. No part of this FAQ may be

partially copied or deleted without my (Christophe Desmecht) permission.

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==4. Contact info==========================================================

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about this FAQ you can

email me at cd@narf.be.

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==5. A few comments========================================================

- To solve this game you actually only need 2 people, so in the following

solutions I'll only use Dave and that second person. If I feel that a

third person is needed to make playing the game easier, I'll show this

one as '3rd'. (eg: in the solution with Dave and Michael, I could have

had Dave come all the way downstairs to push the Gargoyle and then go

back all the way upstairs. Instead I chose to bring in the third person

to make things go faster.)

- I've written every game solution as a seperate entity, this means that

every solution can be read seperatly. This avoids the need to scroll up

and down all the time if I mention something that was already described

in another solution. (eg: every solutions starts the same way, with Dave

opening the front door.)

- These solutions are by no means carved in stone. As you will see there

are several solutions to the game depending on which characters you play

with and in some cases several solutions for the same character. It is

possible that there are some things in the game that I haven't discovered

and variations on the plot that I chose not to mention, simply because

they are variations on the same theme. Mentioning every little detail

that could be done differently is something I chose not to mention, in

order to maintain a certain degree of logic in my writing. Mostly though

these are things you can find on your own and don't affect the plot too

much.

- These solutions are written as step by step solutions. You won't find

elaborate descriptions of rooms or events in this FAQ.

- I haven't figured out what Jeff can do, my guess is he's just a surfer

dude who's good at partying and that's all... (no offense to all you

surfers out there).

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==6. Game Solution: Dave and Syd===========================================

Dave: Walk to the front door, pick up the doormat and the Key underneath.

Unlock the front door with the Key and go inside. Open the first door

you come across and enter, this is the kitchen. What you have to do

now is a bit tricky. You have to keep moving towards the other end

of the kitchen until you see Mrs. Edna, then you immediately turn

around and walk out the kitchen otherwise she catches you and you're

locked up in the cellar. Go back into the kitchen and pick up the

Flashlight. Open the refrigerator and pick up the Can of Pepsi. Now

go into the room to your right. Go right again and pick up the Fruit

Drinks and the Glass Jar.

Syd: Position him by the mailbox. As soon as you hear the doorbell and you

see Weird Ed leaving his room to open the front door switch to Syd and

pick up the Package. (You don't have to wait for the doorbell, just

keep on playing. But as soon as you hear the doorbell, switch and

pick up the Package.)

Dave: Go back through the dining room and the kitchen to the main hall. Now

go towards the most right door and enter that room. Enter the room to

the right. You find yourself in a dark room, so find the lamp and

turn it on. Go to the far right of the bookcase and open the loose

panel. Pick up the Cassette Tape. Go back to the main hall and climb

the stairs. Go into the room to your left. Pick up the Paint Remover

and the Bowl of Wax Fruit. Exit. Go through the steel security door.

Go all the way to the right and up the stairs. Here you'll encounter

the Green Tentacle. Give him the Bowl of Wax Fruit and then the Fruit

Drinks. Go up the stairs and enter the first door. Pick up the Dime

and climb the ladder to the left. Pick up the Record and the Yellow

Key. Go back into the hall, skip two doors and enter the fourth. Use

the Hunk-O-Matic Machine. Go back downstairs to the hall where the

paint room is.(top of the main stairs and in front of the security

door) Enter the room to the right. Use the Cassette Tape in the tape

recorder and use the Record on the victrola. Turn on the cassette

recorder and the victrola and wait for the vase on the piano to

shatter. Then turn the victrola and the recorder off and pick up

the Cassette Tape. Turn on the TV. Exit. Go down the stairs and into

the room to the right. Open the cabinet door, use the Cassette Tape

in the cassette player and turn it on. Wait for the glass chandelier

to fall, then turn the cassette player off and pick up the Cassette

Tape. Pick up the Old Rusty Key. (This key is your way out of the

dungeon, so if you get caught use this key to get free.) Go outside.

Give the Cassette Tape, the Key (the one you found under the doormat)

and the Old Rusty Key to Syd. By now the Package should have arrived

and Syd's the one who's got it. (If the Package hasn't arrived yet

then wait a while, it can't take be much longer. Or you can go ahead

and position the 3rd person at the mailbox to pick up the Package

when it arrives. Meanwhile you can continue with Dave and Syd.)

Syd: Give the Package to Dave.

Dave: Open the Package, some uncanceled Stamps should fall off. Pick them

up. Go to the left bush next to the front door steps. Pull the bush

and then pull the grate (if you hadn't used the Hunk-O-Matic machine,

you wouldn't have been strong enough to do this). Go back inside and

position Dave in front of the door to the right of the main stairs,

the door without handle that you can't open.

Syd: Go inside and push the right gargoyle at the bottom of the main

stairs.

Dave: Enter the room. Find the light switch and turn it on. Go all the way

to the left and pick up the Silver Key. The door you see there is

the way into the dungeon, so if another character other than Syd (or

the one who's carrying the Old Rusty Key) is thrown in the dungeon,

this is where you bust them out. (Or another way is to make the guy

who's carrying the Old Rusty Key get caught on purpose and then bust

out. Yet another way to escape is to get one person to push the loose

stone below the left window so that any other person can escape) Exit

the way you came in and go through the kitchen to the room where you

picked up the Fruit Drinks. Unlock the door with the Silver Key and

exit. Use the Glass Jar with the swimming pool.

Syd: Go outside and through the grating. Walk to the right and turn on the

water valve.

Dave: Go down the ladder, pick up the Radio and the Glowing Key. Whatever

you do, DO NOT PUSH THE RED BUTTON! (or at least save before you do

so you can reload afterwards) Go back up the ladder.

Syd: Turn the water valve back off. (Important otherwise there's a

meltdown and ... well, kaboom, I guess...)

Dave: Open the gate, walk through it and open the garage door. Open the

trunk with the Yellow Key and pick up the Tools. Go back upstairs to

the room where you pumped up your muscles with the Hunk-O-Matic

Machine and wait by the door that leads to the hall.

Syd: Go back through the grate and push the doorbell. Hurry to get inside

and go into the kitchen.

Dave: Wait a few seconds for Ed to pass by the door, then go into the hall.

Open the first door to your left and enter. Pick up the Hamster, then

the Card Key. Open the Piggy Bank and pick up a Dime. Exit and enter

the door on the far right.

Syd: Go to the music room with the piano. Use the Cassette Tape in the tape

recorder and turn it on. Now use the piano to play a cool tune. Turn

off the tape recorder and pick up the Cassette Tape. Go to the Green

Tentacle's room and give him the Cassette Tape, he'll listen to it and

then leave his own Demo Tape on the bed. Pick it up.

Dave: Use the Paint Remover on the paint blotch. Enter the door. Find the

light and turn it on. Open the Radio. Use the Batteries in the

Flashlight (not the Old Batteries, they don't last long enough).

Syd: Go downstairs to the main hall and position yourself in front of the

secret door.

3rd: Go to the main hall and push the right Gargoyle. (You can make him go

into a room or back outside or whatever after Syd has gone inside so

he won't get caught just standing there in the hall)

Syd: Enter the room. Find the light switch and turn it on. Open the fuse

box and turn off the circuit breakers.

Dave: Turn on the Flashlight and use the Tools on the wires. Wait for Syd

to get caught or if you're fast enough and get Syd to turn the

circuit breakers back on before the Purple tentacle checks on him, he

can avoid getting captured. Don't forget to turn your flashlight

off. Exit to the hallway and enter the room that leads to the Green

Tentacle's room.

Syd: Go upstairs and join Dave. Give him the Demo Tape. Exit and open the

door directly to your right, this is Edna's room. Syd will get caught

again but this doesn't matter. As soon as you're able, switch to Dave.

Dave: Exit and enter Edna's room. Go up the ladder. Find and turn on the

light, then open the painting. Go back through the hatch. Now you're

both trapped in the dungeon. This is where that Old Rusty Key comes

in handy... Use it to unlock the door on the right. Go back upstairs

to the floor where Weird Ed and Edna's rooms are, enter the door on

the far right. Use the Can of Pepsi on the Man-eating-Plant. Then use

the Jar of Water with it. Climb up the plant (walk to hatch). Use two

Dimes in the Coin Slot, then push the Right button twice. Now use the

Telescope to read the combination code. Write this down. Go back

downstairs and use the same method as before to get Dave through

Edna's room up the attic. Open the safe with the combination code,

pick up the Sealed Envelope and exit.

Syd: Unlock right door with Old Rusty Key.

Dave: Go to the kitchen. Turn on the faucet, use the Glass Jar with it and

turn the faucet back off. Now open the microwave oven and put both

the Jar of Water and the Sealed Envelope in it. Close the microwave

oven and turn it on. Open it again and pick up the Envelope. Open

the Envelope and you get a Quarter. Now go to the room with the

Man-Eating-Plant and use the Envelope in the typewriter. Now put the

Demo Tape in the Envelope and stick some Stamps on it. Go outside,

put the Envelope in the mailbox and close it again. Don't forget to

pull the flag up. Now it's time to wait... The best way is to get Syd

to wait by the mailbox and continue with Dave. As soon as you hear

the doorbell, switch to Syd and get him to open the mailbox and pick

up the Contract. Meanwhile Dave continues... Go to the Arcade room.

Use the Quarter in the Meteor Mess game (for this to work you should

have seen an animation of Dr. Fred playing this game. If you

haven't, wait with this bit until you have). Write down Dr. Ed's high

score, this is the code to open the door to Dr. Ed's lab. You can't

continue until you've got the Contract, so if you don't have it

already get downstairs and wait for it with Syd.

Syd: Give Contract to Dave.

Dave: Go to the Green Tentacle's room and give him the Contract. Now we've

got a protector and he's a lean mean green killing machine. Head

downstairs to the dungeon. Open the upper and lower padlock with the

Glowing Key. Next use the code to open the second door. After your

bold protector got rid of that purple nuisance go through the door on

the right. Open the locker and use the Radiation Suit. Use the Card

Key in the slot next to the door to open it. Pull the switch once

inside the Meteor's room. Pick up the Meteor and open the door to the

right. Put the Meteor in the trunk of the Edsel and close the trunk.

Use the Yellow Key to get the Edsel started and you're finished!

Note: If you want a different ending, resume play from before Syd gave the

Contract to Dave. Have Dave give Syd the Glowing Key, the Card Key

and the Yellow Key. Now finish Dave off (kill him). To do this you

can send him down the swimming pool and let another kid turn the

water valve back on while Dave's still at the bottom of the pool. Or

you can have another kid than Dave (he's too smart to do it himself)

fill the Glass Jar with water from the swimming pool and put the Jar

of Water in the microwave oven. Get Dave to turn the oven on and then

open it. Another way to get him killed is to get Razor or Syd to put

the Hamster in the microwave oven and turn it on. Get Dave to give

the poor thing back to Ed. Anyway, after you killed Dave, have Syd

give the Contract to Green Tentacle and then finish up as Dave would

have done.

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==7. Game Solution: Dave and Michael=======================================