Play Maniac Mansion (France) Online

Game Overview

Maniac Mansion is this weird, hilarious point-and-click adventure from the late '80s where you control a bunch of teenagers trying to rescue their friend from a mad scientist's creepy mansion. I remember picking between different characters at the start—each has their own weird skills, like the punk kid who can fix radios or the nerdy guy who hacks computers. The puzzles are totally bizarre (feeding a sentient meteorite with cottage cheese?), and the whole house feels like it's packed with secrets. Just watch out for Dr. Fred's family—some of them will straight-up murder you if you mess up.

It's clunky by today's standards, but the writing still holds up, and there's something oddly satisfying about figuring out how to outwit a talking tentacle. One of those games where you'll be scribbling notes like "hamster + microwave = ?"