Maniac Mars

Description

In this strange mash-up of Maniac Mansion and Marooned on Mars, Commander Keen finds himself having to sneak into a large Vorticon-owned Martian mansion, so he can recover his missing spaceship parts and get back home!

Backstory

Maniac Mars serves as the incredibly important, crucial prequel to Day of the Alien: Tentacles Ate My Babysitter! You absolutely have to play this one first or the plot for DOTA:TAMB won't make sense!

...Just kidding - this game was only made as an afterthought while I was working on Day of the Alien. My reasoning at the time was that because Day of the Tentacle included its prequel Maniac Mansion as a hidden bonus game, I should also include a hidden bonus game for my Keen/DOTT crossover fangame Day of the Alien. Therefore, Maniac Mars was born as a side-project that was shipped with Day of the Alien at the end of the summer of 2002.

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• Development time: Summer 2002 (age 11-12)
• Tools I used: Klik 'n' Play
• Biggest inspirations: Maniac Mansion and Commander Keen
• See also: The old LucasKeen website, archived on the Wayback Machine