Rank and Play ID: RNP-IGDB-193

Day of the Tentacle

Rank and Play

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Critic rating

88.4 / 100

464 votes

Release

Jun 25, 1993

Genres

Point-and-click, Adventure

Overview

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 plot follows Bernard Bernoulli and his friends Hoagie and Laverne as they attempt to stop the evil Purple Tentacle — a sentient, disembodied tentacle — from taking over the world. The player takes control of the three and solves puzzles while using time travel to explore different periods of history. Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer co-led the game's development, their first time in such a role. The pair carried over a limited amount of elem…

Storyline

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.