Maniacal Mansion
Strapped into Dr. Fred's brain sucking machine... you won't feel a thing...

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Maniac Mansion is a classic NES game that involved a group of teenagers point-and-clicking their way through a spooky mansion inhabited by a mad scientist, his wife and son, a pair of anthropomorphic tentacles, and a mutating plant. Nintendo censorship at the time was heavy but reagardless, the dark humor permeated and MM is now considered a cult classic.

My Halo 3 map is a tribute to this. The action is nothing at all similar to the NES game, but it does involve a large mansion-like structure. So what is it then? Maniacal Mansion is a(n up to) 16 man tournament, all in one game. It features a series of 1v1 face-offs. Every 30 seconds, the winners will advance to the next stage to face the next opponent in a new room with a different weapon selection, while the loosers will lie silently, decorating the floor. After 4 stages, there will be only 1 man left standing.

Let's get to the pics. Here's the layout.

Stage 1

8 rooms, 16 players

The first floor consists of 8 rooms, with 2 starting points in each. The weapons available here are the Magnum you start with, and a Spiker and SMG at your feet. The rooms come in two flavors:

L shaped

and square

Fight and kill your opponent. If there are fewer than 16 players in your party, not everyone will have an opponent in this room. Treat it like a bye in a tournament, and just wait for the lift.

After 30 seconds, a man-cannon will appear to lift you to the second level.

Stage 2

4 rooms, 8 players remaining

Fight it out with whoever won in the room next to you. In this room, you will find a Mauler and a Spike Grenade.

After 30 seconds, this area will spawn

The Sniper Rifle becomes available, and you have a panel to jump up to the third floor.

Stage 3

2 rooms, 4 players remaining

The third stage is more open, and has a single Flame Grenade in it.

Of course, you will have any weapon you care to bring from down below.

After another 30 seconds, the door will open to the final chamber.

Stage 4

1 room, 2 players remaining

An Energy Sword and a Custom Power-Up will also appear.

At this point, only two people will be left alive. With the Swords and the CPU settings (500x damage resistance, no shield recharge), the final battle can be very reminiscant of Duel of the Fates.

That's it!! Now, some specifics of the game type.

Tuna Diver

There's an arcade in one room of the mansion in the NES game. To the far right, there is a game called "Tuna Diver". Tuna Diver??? For an amusing story about this, here's and article all about it. Anyway, you can go to the game machine and play it, but you don't see anything. If you ever wondered what your character was experiencing when he/she played Tuna Diver, now you know. The NES couldn't properly represent the Xbox 360 gameplay from the future, so that part was left to the imagination... until now.

So... there are 3 rounds. 1 life per round. CPU settings mentioned above. Fast shield recharge. That's about it.

I'll leave you with this:

YouTube - Microwaved Hamster - 1st Attempt

Thanks and enjoy!!

Download Map: Maniacal Mansion
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