Game:

Maniac Mansion (1987)

Duration: 42:48

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Maniac Mansion NES
100% Speedrun 40:27
Party: Dave, Razor, Bernard

Required:

Collect all possible items
Give at least one item to Green Tentacle to pass
Use the phone to distract Edna
Find Wall Safe combination with Really Powerful Telescope
Get the Inner Lab Door code from the Meteor Mess scores
Use two different party members' abilities to get unique items and/or get past Purple Tentacle

Banned:
Glitches to avoid or escape capture
Glitches to get past Tentacles
0000 Inner Lab Door code
Character deaths

Allowed:

Using the New Kid command to select another character and advance the action after a character being captured triggers
Outrunning characters by going into another room to avoid capture
Meteor Police capturing Meteor before it can be encountered and captured/collected/given contract by the player

This is going through Maniac Mansion getting all items and facing all obstacles possible. It could've been a "real" speedrun but there's a lot of inefficiency later into it, especially to go back and get the Quarter to get the Cold Can of Pepsi. Mostly comes down to just improvising after I ran out of what I remembered the plan was. I chose Meteor Police/Rockstar because it came out in my math to the most possible items collected, getting the Demo Tape in addition to the Contract. Getting the Demo Tape with Syd or Razor in addition to Wendy getting the contract from the Manuscript will still lack the Badge, and there's no unique items to collect in a Michael playthrough.

Lastly, it was supposed to be glitchless but somehow I was able to bring up the New Kid menu during the Meteor Police cutscene by mistake. I forgot about the second Hamster too, but its a glitched item so that would've also voided the glitchless attempt if I hadn't already disrupted the Meteor Police by mistake.

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