I recently played (and completed) Maniac Mansion Deluxe, a remake of classic (1987) game Maniac Mansion by LucasArts, a graphical adventure game known for its highly-acclaimed gameplay and its introduction of new ideas.

A group of fan of LucasArts games, made this remake in nice VGA graphics and fully translated in many languages. Believe me it was very well done!

A screenshot from "Maniac Mansion Deluxe"
(A screenshot from “Maniac Mansion Deluxe”)

Today I discovered that their site is closed. I don’t know why, but the only reason I can imagine is that this decision has been forced by the LucasArts legal department for copyright reasons.

LucasFun Games made also a really nice game called “The new adventures of Zak McKracken”, and I started playing it recently. It’s great. I’m sorry to blog this information so late, so that no one will be able to play it anymore.

A screenshot of "The new adventures of Zak McKracken"
(A screenshot of “The new adventures of Zak McKracken”)

Recently, LucasFun Games group was working on a remake of “Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade”, a masterpiece of classic gaming I played when I was a kid.
I’ll miss this game.

Hope LucasFan Games group to come back soon with their new Indy game.


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  1. 1 Fabrizio Gianneschi

    I’m a BIG fan of these games, too. I played almost all of them, starting from Loom.

    So, here’re two links from which you can download Maniac Mansion Deluxe:
    http://www.caimen.us/ZZZ/manicmdsetup.zip
    http://www.usedcarsbelgium.be/ZZZ/manicmdsetup.zip

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