{"id":591,"date":"2011-05-10T21:21:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T05:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2011-05-10T21:21:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T05:21:53","slug":"limitations-in-maniac-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Limitations in Maniac Mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In (any version of) Maniac Mansion, if one kid is in the hallway with Green Tentacle, any other kid (even Syd and Razor) will refuse to go up the stairs to that hallway: &#8220;I&#8217;m not going up there&#8230; that monster&#8217;s got my friend!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why is that?<\/p>\n<p>C64:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"docs\/maniac_mansion\/maniac_mansion_1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"docs\/maniac_mansion\/maniac_mansion_1.png\" width=\"440\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"docs\/maniac_mansion\/maniac_mansion_2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"docs\/maniac_mansion\/maniac_mansion_2.png\" width=\"440\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"docs\/maniac_mansion\/maniac_mansion_3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"docs\/maniac_mansion\/maniac_mansion_3.png\" width=\"440\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo Entertainment System:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"docs\/maniac_mansion\/maniac_mansion_4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"docs\/maniac_mansion\/maniac_mansion_4.png\" width=\"440\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>MS-DOS Enhanced:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"docs\/maniac_mansion\/maniac_mansion_5.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"docs\/maniac_mansion\/maniac_mansion_5.png\" width=\"440\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>(Read Maniac Mansion creator Ron Gilbert&#8217;s authoritative answer in the comments.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In (any version of) Maniac Mansion, if one kid is in the hallway with Green Tentacle, any other kid (even Syd and Razor) will refuse to go up the stairs to that hallway: &#8220;I&#8217;m not going up there&#8230; that monster&#8217;s got my friend!&#8221; Why is that? C64: Nintendo Entertainment System: MS-DOS Enhanced: (Read Maniac Mansion &#8230; <a title=\"Limitations in Maniac Mansion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=591\" aria-label=\"Read more about Limitations in Maniac Mansion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26,27,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archeology","category-puzzle","category-scumm","category-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}