Videogames. Roms. Mario. JSGB v.0.02: a JavaScript Nintendo GameBoy Emulator and Debugger. Game Boy Oddities. The Expurgation of Maniac Mansion. Now You're Really Playing with Power: The Untold Story Douglas Crockford I was the on-the-edge new-media/technology guy at the LucasArts Entertainment Company, a spin-off of George Lucas's Lucasfilm Ltd. in Marin County, California. Most of my work was (if I may say so myself) "out there", but sometimes I would take on more mundane projects to help out.
One such project was the Nintendo version of Maniac Mansion. The original version of Maniac Mansion was designed by Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick. It is usually necessary to make a game run on several different systems in order to have access to a large enough audience to make it profitable. In the course of converting to Nintendo, we had to redesign all of the art in order to conform to Nintendo's screen geometry. The bad words we removed, meaning that "The meteor is going to be pissed" was changed to "The meteor is going to be mad. " The mansion contains a number of arcade video games.
Yikes, MUFF DIVER had to be changed again. Hamster: Dr. PocketNES - The NES Emulator For Gameboy Advance.