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Day of the Tentacle ()

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A disembodied tentacle is accidentally exposed to nuclear waste, giving it human abilities and an ambition to take over the world.
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Bernard Bernoulli (voice)
Denny Delk ...
Hoagie / Purple / Green / Doctor Tentacle / George Washington (voice)
Jane Jacobs ...
Laverne / Irish Maid (voice)
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Doctor Fred Edison / Doctor Red Edison / Zed Edison / Dwayne / John Hancock / Man in Ski Mask (voice)
Ginny Westcott ...
Betsy Ross / Nurse Edna (voice) (as Ginny Schafer)
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Ed Edison / Zd Edison / Ben Franklin / Cigar Salesman / Thomas Jefferson (voice) (as David Traylor)
Peggy Roberts-Hope ...
Edna Edison / Zedna Edison (voice)

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Dave Grossman ... (co-director)
Tim Schafer ... (co-director)

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Dave Grossman ... (written by) and
Tim Schafer ... (written by)
 
Dave Grossman ... (story by) &
Tim Schafer ... (story by) &
Ron Gilbert ... (story by) &
Gary Winnick ... (story by)
 
Ron Gilbert ... (based on characters created by) and
Gary Winnick ... (based on characters created by)
 
Wayne Cline ... (manual)

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Dave Grossman ... producer
Tim Schafer ... producer

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Clint Bajakian
Michael Land ... (as Michael Z. Land)
Peter McConnell

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Peter Chan ... lead artist
Sean Turner ... graphics

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Clint Bajakian ... sound
Ron Baldwin ... sound effects editor
Michael Land ... sound
Peter McConnell ... sound

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Larry Ahern ... animator
Kyle Balda ... animator
Peter Chan ... background artist
Jesse Clark ... animator
Sean Turner ... animator

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Jonathan Ackley ... programmer
Kelly Flock ... general manager: Lucasarts
Aaron Giles ... lead programmer: Macintosh
Justin Graham ... renegade hacking
Dave Grossman ... game designer / programmer
Judith Lucero ... programmer
Toshi Morita ... renegade hacking
Steve Purcell ... appear courtesy of: "Sam & Max"
Tim Schafer ... game designer / programmer

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Hal Barwood ... the team would like to thank
Lucy Bradshaw ... the team would like to thank
Khris Brown ... the team would like to thank
Zachary Chan ... the team would like to thank
Linda Jones Clough ... further thanks to (as Linda Jones)
Noah Falstein ... the team would like to thank
Steve Hales ... special thanks
Chuck Jones ... further thanks to
Valerie Kausen ... the team would like to thank
Eric Klein ... special thanks
George Lucas ... special thanks to
Ernest Musengwa ... the team would like to thank
Nancy Newton ... the team would like to thank
Maurice Noble ... the team would like to thank
Kirk Roulston ... the team would like to thank

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Plot Summary

Doctor Fred Edison is an eccentric scientist who lives with his bizarre family in his centuries old home, somewhere in New England. One day, his pets, genetically engineered tentacles by the names of Green and Purple, come across waste being dumped into a creek. While Green stays away from it, Purple takes a taste of some of it and is mutated, giving him limbs as well as superhuman intelligence. Driven mad by the sudden power rush, Purple sets off to conquer the planet and replace the human race with tentacles. However, Fred captures them, and thinking Green may have been exposed as well, regretfully decides he must euthanize them. Fearing for his life Green sneaks out a telegram to his old friend, nerdish college student Bernard Bernouli. Bernard, bent on rescuing Green, sneaks himself, his med student girlfriend Laverne, and roomate, Hoagie, off campus and drives to the mansion, where Purple and Green are both set free and Purple escapes to go on a rampage. Deciding the only way to catch Purple is to stop the mutation from ever happening, Fred rigs up a machine that can rip open the space-time continuum and allow Bernard, Hoagie, and Laverne all to go back in time and stop Purple from being exposed to the waste. Unfortunately, during the transport, the Cubic Zarconia Fred is using to reflect the time machine's laser is destroyed, resulting in Bernard staying in present day, Laverene being sent 200 years in the future, and Hoagie being sent back 200 years to Colonial America. Now not only must Hoagie and Laverne get themselves back home, but Laverne must escape the brutal concentration camps of a tentacle ruled future, Bernard must contend with Fred and his passively insane son and sex obsessed wife, and Hoagie and Bernard must stop the nightmarish future from ever happening. Written by K. Lynnith

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Also Known As
  • Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle (United States)
  • Der Tag des Tentakel (Germany)
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Budget $600,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia Originally, there was not going to be voice acting and there would be six playable characters at the start. Apart from Bernard, Hoagie and Laverne, there would also be Razor (the female musician from Maniac Mansion (1987)), Moonglow (a short character in baggy clothes) and Chester (a beat poet). Because of design issues and memory limitations, Moonglow and Razor were omitted early on, while Chester became the basis for the twins Jed and Ned Edison. When Myst (1993) came out, it popularized voice acting in games, and when the game's original deadline could not be met, the creative team decided to make use of the extra development time to make Day of the Tentacle their first "talkie game". The disk version only had voice acting in the introduction, while the CD-ROM version had talking throughout the game. See more »
Goofs Hoagie finds dry spaghetti in the Colonial-era mansion kitchen. Italian cuisine did not make it to the United States until the 19th century. Therefore, it's highly unlikely someone would have pasta in their kitchen around this time. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in LucasArts (2003). See more »
Crazy Credits The LucasArts logo at the end of the game has a golden tentacle appear and scare off the Gold Guy and take his place. See more »
Quotes Laverne: This is all your fault Bernard.
Dr. Fred: Behold, children! The Chron-O-John!
Hoagie: Doc, can't you just send Bernard?
Dr. Fred: No, you must all go to increase the odds that one of you will make it there alive.
Bernard: Has any people even been hurt in this thing?
Dr. Fred: Of course not! This is the first time, I never tried it on people.
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