/vr/ - Retro Games

I'd say the NES Maniac Mansion is preferable to the C64 original even with all the censored stuff because it looks nicer and has no load time. The added music I don't really gaf; I usually just turn that off.

>Although Jaleco had already done a port of Maniac Mansion for the Famicom, LucasArts believed they could do better simply by making a new conversion from the ground up--Jaleco's version lacked scrolling screens, had relatively limited graphics, and also used huge save game passwords with as many as 100 characters. The original game had been developed for the Commodore 64 and proved a considerable challenge to fit into 64k of memory; not only did every last available byte of RAM get used up, but the 2k of RAM in the 1541 disk drive was used for additional space.[47]

>Ron Gilbert, who was not involved with the NES conversion, expressed surprise at the team being able to pull it off, knowing that the console had much less usable memory space than the C64.[48]