Hippy-dippy medical student Laverne gets stuck in a distant future ruled over by Purple Tentacle and his minions. But alas, the giant imitation diamond powering Fred’s time machine isn’t up to the task so it all goes a bit wrong.
Fred to send three misfit college kids back in time to the previous day to shut off the problem-causing Sludge-O-Matic. The toxic sludge he’s been pumping into the river behind the mansion has transformed his bizarre creation, Purple Tentacle, into an evil genius intent on taking over the world – mwahahahahahaha! Fred Edison has once again been up to no good.
Set five years after the first game, mad scientist Dr. And I must say that I’m suitably impressed.įor those who, like me, never played the original or know little about it, DotT is Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer’s loose sequel to Ron Gilbert’s seminal Maniac Mansion, the 1987 point-and-click adventure that spawned the genre (which you can actually play in its entirety from a computer terminal within DotT). Fast forward 23 years and I’m finally getting to play it, in shiny new remastered form.
#Day of the Tentacle Remastered Pc#
Oh I wanted to, but LucasArts never bothered with an Amiga conversion, and by the time I had my first PC it had long slipped my mind. I’m a massive fan of old school point-and-click adventures and I absolutely loved Maniac Mansion and the Monkey Island games (well the first two anyway), yet up until this point I’d never played the much-revered Day of the Tentacle. I come into this review from a slightly unusual position.
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