Day of the Tentacle (1993) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Day of the Tentacle

Day of the Tentacle, also known as Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle, is a 1993 graphic adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It is the sequel to the 1987 game Maniac Mansion. The game's…

25 June 1993 ESRB E

What Day of the Tentacle is

Day of the Tentacle is an adventure game developed by LucasArts and released in 1993. It is available on Amiga, DOS and Mac. It runs on SCUMM. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Five years after the events of Maniac Mansion, the mutant Purple Tentacle drinks toxic sludge from a river behind Dr. Fred's laboratory, which makes him far more intelligent and gives him a thirst for world domination. Answering a plea for help, the nerd Bernard Bernoulli travels to the Edison family motel with his housemates Laverne and Hoagie. When Purple Tentacle escapes to pursue his plans, Dr. Fred hatches a scheme to send the three friends back in time to stop the sludge at its source, but the faulty time machine strands each of them in a different era.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy, fantasy, historical and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 7 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 12 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Day of the Tentacle launched on 25 June 1993, within three weeks of Street Fighter II' Turbo, Super Mario All-Stars, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening and Rock n' Roll Racing.

Released around the same time: Street Fighter II' Turbo, Super Mario All-Stars, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Rock n' Roll Racing.

Cheats and codes

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