Day of the Tentacle 1993

Is it still worth playing?

LucasArts' 1993 point and click adventure for MS-DOS and Mac OS, also called Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle, in which you stop the Purple Tentacle from taking over the world. You play three characters, Bernard, Hoagie and Laverne, each in a different time period about two centuries apart, and items move between eras through devices called Chron-o-Johns. There are nine commands such as pick up, use and talk to, and the original Maniac Mansion can be played inside the game. The CD-ROM version has about 4,500 lines of recorded dialogue and was the first LucasArts adventure with voice work at release, while the floppy version has none. Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer co-led it. Its comic writing and voice acting are the reason to play it now, since in the CD version every line of dialogue is spoken.