Game:

Maniac Mansion (1987)

Duration: 5:14

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[It took several attempts to get the timing giving Meteor to the Plant right but i left the bad ones in just so I could include the graveyard setup without editing it. It gets going around 1:10]

This has to be the most broken ending I've come across yet. You fill up the graveyard with three Daves via Tele-Death and then immediately New Kid Syd while the third gravestone sprite is being drawn. In the brief window you have control before the Hamsteak ending would otherwise trigger, give the Hamster to Weird Ed again.

The graveyard will overflow at four, an empty porch cutscene plays instead, and you are returned as a ghost to Weird Ed's room. From there, New Kid Razor, feed the Meteor to the Plant, and hit the New Kid button again at the exact right moment to buffer the menu during the Porch cutscene.

Getting the game to register a fourth death preempted losing from triggering, but I mistakenly hit New Kid Dave during the dead Dave version of the porch cutscene and it went to the "Hell Screen". Turns out you can still switch back to the remaining active player in at least some visits to Hell, which was a relief to discover, but all of this also preempted winning from triggering. It was safe to walk past the graves without losing, but it seemed like a dead end.

That was until I thought, screw it, time for a microwave finisher. Well wouldn't you know, something about it got at least some of the remaining portion of the porch cutscene to play, followed by an abrupt cut to the "Congratulations! You Won The Game screen". Might have been hitting New Kid Dave by mistake again. At this point the menus remained enabled so you can pause and hit "Back to the Mansion, which lands you in front of the microwave with a still alive Razor. After a final Microwave attempt, Razor's immobile ghost lands back in front of the Microwave, unable to reach anything. This then becomes a dead-end but also doesn't lose you the game even though by this point all three characters have actually been finished off.

Final stats:

Wins: 1
Losses: 0
Dave Deaths: 4
Syd Deaths: 1
Razor Deaths: 1

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