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>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]

>> No.6369571

>>6369541
Good for them. Fuck Jaleco, they made Data East look like Capcom.

>> No.6369614

>>6369571
They sold about 4 billion copies of Bases Loaded so clearly they did something right.

>> No.6369628

>>6369614
Not really. People in the 80’s were retarded and were memed into enjoying baseball.

>> No.6369643

>>6369628
Memes weren't a thing back then. Most kids played sports, so baseball was popular. RBI baseball was better though.

>> No.6369646

>>6369643
I was more into Base Wars, personally.

>> No.6369651

The development of ports is fascinating, but at the end of the day the best way to play it is to load the Amiga version into ScummVM.

>> No.6369671

The NES version is really the best one even with being censored and all due to no load time and no copy protection codes.

>> No.6369682

The main reason they could pull it off is because the NES lets you bank different portions of the game data on the fly. Maniac Mansion is an MMC1 game and the code/graphics/audio/level data is all in separate 16k banks which are switched in and out as needed. You can't do this on the C64, all the data for each screen is loaded from disk in one big piece and kept in memory until you load the next screen which takes a lot of space.

>> No.6369694

>>6369643
The steroid scandals and the 94 strike/cancelled World Series were a huge fucking blow to the popularity of baseball and it never entirely recovered.

>> No.6369701

>>6369643
>RBI baseball was better though

That was kind of the final word in NES baseball games, everything after that was just ripping off of it.

>> No.6369727
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6369727

Only had an NES growing up. If it hadn't been for Nintendo Power I probably would have never experienced this great game.

>> No.6369750

The Famicom MM has this irritating five note tune that loops over and over, it drives you nuts.

>> No.6371236

>>6369671
forgot music

>> No.6371241

>>6369643
>Memes weren't a thing back then
crack a dictionary much?

>> No.6371303

>>6369541
I assume it would have been made easier by the fact the game came on a ROM cartridge instead of disks/cassette.

>> No.6371307

>>6369671
I always saw the copy protection door codes as a vital aspect of the gameplay. I assumed Bernard had supplied the other kids with all potential codes.

>> No.6371314

>>6369643
The word meme was coined in the 70's.