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Over 800 gamers tried and utterly failed to beat a classic '80s game without a guide
Posted on 3/5/26 at 3:01 pm
Posted on 3/5/26 at 3:01 pm
Never played it, those were my C64 days.
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As spotted by PC Gamer, the Adventure Game Aptitude Test, which was held on February 28, 2026, gave players a 4-hour window to clear Maniac Mansion blind. According to How Long To Beat, Maniac Mansion tends to take players somewhere around three and a half hours to beat — meaning the test takers wouldn't have much wiggle room with the game if they got stuck.
So, how'd people fare? Worse than you'd think! Out of 831 participants, only two people managed to get through Maniac Mansion within the allotted time span without any help.
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Posted on 3/5/26 at 3:38 pm to travelgamer
It was a tough game with multiple endings. Really ahead of its time.
Posted on 3/5/26 at 3:43 pm to travelgamer
I don't find this surprising at all because it's not designed to be beaten in 4 hours.
The game has a lot of trial and error on purpose. You can do a ton of things that get you killed or ruin the playthrough. That is part of the intended experience.
They didn't build the game such that someone who had never played it before could "figure it out" easily.
If you follow a guide you can beat the game in like what 15 minutes? Imagine paying $50 in 1989 for a game you completely beat in less than an hour.
It's purposefully cryptic and built around trial and error to give it a lot of replay value and the joy of discovering new things.
it definitely was. The fact you can beat the game like a wide variety of totally different ways and solve the same problems in different ways with different party compositions, for that era it was extremely revolutionary.
The game has a lot of trial and error on purpose. You can do a ton of things that get you killed or ruin the playthrough. That is part of the intended experience.
They didn't build the game such that someone who had never played it before could "figure it out" easily.
If you follow a guide you can beat the game in like what 15 minutes? Imagine paying $50 in 1989 for a game you completely beat in less than an hour.
It's purposefully cryptic and built around trial and error to give it a lot of replay value and the joy of discovering new things.
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Really ahead of its time.
it definitely was. The fact you can beat the game like a wide variety of totally different ways and solve the same problems in different ways with different party compositions, for that era it was extremely revolutionary.
This post was edited on 3/5/26 at 3:47 pm
Posted on 3/5/26 at 7:10 pm to travelgamer
Now do Battletoads or the Ultra Games TMNT
This post was edited on 3/6/26 at 5:49 am
Posted on 3/5/26 at 7:25 pm to VoxDawg
Psht. Lion king.
End of story.
End of story.
Posted on 3/5/26 at 10:37 pm to travelgamer
That was a great game. I remember it fondly. And definitely not easy to solve.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 8:20 am to beerJeep
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Psht. Lion king.
I think I saw adult Simba once in hundreds of attempts at this game as a kid
Posted on 3/6/26 at 3:56 pm to HogX
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I think I saw adult Simba once in hundreds of attempts
Shiiiiiiitttttt you made it past the monkeys?
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:35 am to travelgamer
How many of those players microwaved the hamster?
Posted on 3/10/26 at 12:25 pm to beerJeep
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Shiiiiiiitttttt you made it past the monkeys?
The waterfall climb still haunts my nightmares.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 10:22 am to travelgamer
So to recap, people familiar with the game still takes a little under 4 hours.
Then let’s get a bunch of people who have never seen it, disallow and support, and go surprised Pikachu face when basically none of them can come close to the replayed timeframe.
Bet there weren’t too many catered lunches with the study.
Then let’s get a bunch of people who have never seen it, disallow and support, and go surprised Pikachu face when basically none of them can come close to the replayed timeframe.
Bet there weren’t too many catered lunches with the study.
Posted on 3/28/26 at 3:32 pm to travelgamer
YouTubers and streamers have ruined the experience of being able to play video games with no training wheels
Posted on 3/28/26 at 3:44 pm to JasonDBlaha
A buddy and I had notebooks of what people said when we talked to them in Ultima IV Quest of the Aatar. Each town had a page of it's own,
Posted on 3/28/26 at 9:18 pm to travelgamer
I’ve played it extensively and it would still probably take me a while because there are some easy no-win situations.
Not steaming open the envelope, not getting the stamps off Weird Ed’s package, etc, or sending the wrong person up to the wrong room (Bernard at the security door) are all game killers.
Not steaming open the envelope, not getting the stamps off Weird Ed’s package, etc, or sending the wrong person up to the wrong room (Bernard at the security door) are all game killers.
Posted on 3/30/26 at 5:08 pm to travelgamer
I got the remaster the day of the tentacle remasteered on Xbox I can play manic mansion in that game.
Posted on 3/31/26 at 3:06 pm to travelgamer
Maniac Mansion is such a completely different type of experience from anything modern that I don't think it would be fair to just say today's gamers are idiots
I played King's Quest 6 (one of my favorite games growing up) recently and it took longer than I'll admit to get back in the hang of it. Myst would be even worse
I played King's Quest 6 (one of my favorite games growing up) recently and it took longer than I'll admit to get back in the hang of it. Myst would be even worse
Posted on 4/11/26 at 8:03 am to beerJeep
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Psht. Lion king.
I remember trying Top Gun at someone’s house on NES and it almost made me give up gaming all together.
To this day I’ve never successfully landed on that F’ing aircraft carrier.
Posted on 4/12/26 at 9:46 am to tide06
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To this day I’ve never successfully landed on that F’ing aircraft carrier.
Same.Posted on 4/12/26 at 1:28 pm to P-Dawg
I’ve landed on it a few times and refueled the plane, but never consistently.
Posted on 4/12/26 at 2:25 pm to teke184
quote:Same
I’ve landed on it a few times and refueled the plane, but never consistently.
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