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This is one of my favorite games from my childhood. If you haven't ever played it, you owe it to yourself to purchase the remastered version [1] and play it through (it's only $3.79). It's incredibly entertaining and witty. I doubt this game will ever get stale.

[1]: https://www.gog.com/game/day_of_the_tentacle_remastered

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And if you just want to give it a try first, you can play the old version online [1]

[1]: https://playclassic.games/games/point-n-click-adventure-dos-...

It's not necessary to have played Maniac Mansion beforehand? I'll admit this has been my main hesitation. I remember when Monkey Island III was big in the late 90s, I was hesitant because I hadn't played the two games that came before it.

I ended up doing it anyway at the time, but later I would play all three, and the third one really benefits - in my view anyway - from having played the first two ones, even though they can all stand on their own. So I wonder whether Day of the Tentacle is similar?

I played DotT without ever having played MM and really enjoyed it.

DOTT is a totally free-standing game -- and amazing.

They address this in the linked article (also from personal experience) -- you really don't need any context from Maniac Mansion to thoroughly enjoy DOTT and they are really totally different games in style and substance.

Nah. I played it before Monkey island and have never played manic mansion. I remember being addicted to it right away and thinking it was hilarious. I remember having to load about 10 floppy discs sitting next to the PC. Good fun.

You don't need to have played or know anything about Maniac Mansion to enjoy Day of the Tentacle. I would not even recommend to play MM first, because MM is stupendously hard and frustrating compared to DotT. Play it after.

BTW: In the version of DotT I played in the 90s there was a funny easter egg: A computer in the game was running a playable version of Maniac Mansion. I don't know if this is part of the remastered version though.

It is! At least on the version I played from Steam :)

Remastered has it too. Steam version even has achievements for doing things that require you to get a small way through the original.

Agree on not needing to play Maniac Mansion first, too. I came to the original having no idea that MM even existed. The characters and story are great even if you don't know the references.

It is

If anything the biggest hindrance is to be American. It has quite a few topical jokes and puzzles that didn't make sense to me when I first played it.

The whole George Washington/ Cherry tree thing was strange to me. I felt there was some joke going on there, but no idea why he wanted to 'cut the sucker down'. Today you'd just google it, of course.

Thanks for the link! Just bought me a copy, and it supports Linux! I played this as a teenager and just the intro brings back some fond memories.

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