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'''Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle''' was the sequel to [[Maniac Mansion]], and the eighth game to use the [[SCUMM]] scripting language.  The game first follows the nerd from the first game, Bernard Bernoulli, and his roommates Hoagie and Laverne as they rescue green tentacle from Dr. Fred's basement.  Later, the game follows the trio as they go back in time to stop the evil purple tentacle from changing the past for his own benefit.
'''Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle''' was the sequel to [[Maniac Mansion]], and the eighth game to use the [[SCUMM]] scripting language.  The game first follows the nerd from the first game, Bernard Bernoulli, and his roommates Hoagie and Laverne as they rescue green tentacle from Dr. Fred's basement.  Later, the game follows the trio as they go back in time to stop the evil purple tentacle from changing the past for his own benefit.
==Game Varients==
The CD versions were so-called "talkie versions" and included speech for each of the lines of text said by the characters in the game.
==Data Files==
All of the files required for Day of the Tentacle to run
Macintosh CD
*Day of the Tentacle Data
Macintosh Demo
* Day of the Tentacle Demo Data
PC CD and Floppy
* MONSTER.SOU
* TENTACLE.000
* TENTACLE.001
PC Demo
* DOTTDEMO.000
* DOTTDEMO.001
* MONSTER.SOU
==Datafile Compression==
The monster.sou file can be compressed with the utility compress_scumm_sou which is found in the [[http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php#tools ScummVM tools package]]
The utility is used in the following manner:
compress_scumm_sou monster.sou
==Platform Compatibility==
List of platforms where Day of the Tentacle is known to work / not to work
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|style="background:lightgreen;width:100px"|Completable
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|style="background:#ffff77;width:100px"|Not Completable
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|style="background:#ff7777;width:100px"|Doesn't Work
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|}
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" width=100%
|+Day of the Tentacle Compatibility by Platform
|- style="background:silver"
|Platform||Game Version||Status
|- style="background:lightgreen"
|Windows||PC Floppy||Completable
|- style="background:lightgreen"
|Windows||PC CD-ROM||Completable
|- style="background:lightgreen"
|Windows||Macintosh||Completable
|- style="background:lightgreen"
|Linux||PC Floppy||Completable
|- style="background:lightgreen"
|Linux||PC CD-ROM||Completable
|- style="background:lightgreen"
|Linux||Macintosh||Completable
|- style="background:lightgreen"
|Dreamcast||PC Floppy||Completable
|- style="background:lightgreen"
|Dreamcast||PC CD-ROM||Completable
|}


== Miscellaneous ==
== Miscellaneous ==
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