Game:

Maniac Mansion (1987)

Duration: 2:34

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Big thanks to ZeroJanitor for noticing how this effect happened unintentionally on my most recent run.

I uploaded the wrong video by mistake so this includes two consecutive attempts from a cartridge save at the point immediately before the Meteor Police siren starts. Its more experimentation on something I came across during a convoluted run where you can switch characters when meteor police show up and collect the badge before they get into the lab.

What I did here was start in control of another character (Dave) when the Meteor Police siren starts. It repeats four times. During the beginning of the fourth repetition I New Kid: Bernard then immediately hit new kid again. The Meteor Police cutscene then begins but hitting start brings up New Kid. Switching back to Bernard temporarily shifts the screen to his side of the dungeon, but I had to repeat the new kid command after the Meteor Police actually appear. At that point the Badge is present and collectable and there is enough time to go into the outer lab.

Once in the lab, New Kid is unavailable as normal for as far as I've found. The Meteor Police will come in and interact with Purple Tentacle and the cutscene progresses. Every time the Meteor police change what screen they are on, the cutscene progresses with them, so I think if you can give the badge to purple tentacle fast enough, or maybe just piggyback to the Inner Lab behind the Meteor Police you could potentially make almost even time with them to the last room. In this case I wasn't fast enough to do that.

This is experimental, not optimized, but if someone worked it out this could maybe get Meteor Police Ending under eight minutes.

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