I guess I'm getting old. I picked up the remastered version of Day Of The Tentacle during the summer sales and realised it's been 27 years since I bought the original version of this game. It's at least 25 years ago since I last played the original but when I launched the game I still remembered all the intro dialogues. The game is even funnier than I remembered, mostly because I didn't get all the jokes and historical references back in the day.

Day Of The Tentacle is a classic point and click adventure game with a great story, wacky humour and lots of time travel. When they try to stop a megalomaniac tentacle that is trying to take over the world, three friends are separated in time by a malfunctioning time machine. One character is sent back 200 years in the past, one remains in the present while the third one ends up 200 years in the future. The puzzles are very cleverly designed and quite a few of them rely on the whole time travel aspect of the story.

This is actually a sequel to 1987's Maniac Mansion but apart from a couple of microwave and hamster jokes, you don't really need to know what happened in the first game in order to enjoy this sequel. However, if you are eager to learn what did happen, you can always play Maniac Mansion as a game-within-a-game. Being able to play the first game on a computer that you find somewhere in the sequel to that game is exactly the kind of thing that set this game apart from the competition more than two and a half decades ago.

I really enjoyed playing this game again after all this time. The graphics were state of the art back then but have been completely redrawn for this remastered version. As with most (if not all) remastered LucasArts games, you can switch between the original and remastered graphics, which is a nice bonus.

If you've never played this game but you enjoy point and click adventures, go buy this game. You won't regret it.
If you did play the original game but you haven't played the remastered version yet, go buy it as well. You won't regret it either.

I guess I'm getting old. I picked up the remastered version of [b]Day Of The Tentacle[/b] during the summer sales and realised it's been 27 years since I bought the original version of this game. It's at least 25 years ago since I last played the original but when I launched the game I still remembered all the intro dialogues. The game is even funnier than I remembered, mostly because I didn't get all the jokes and historical references back in the day. [b]Day Of The Tentacle[/b] is a classic [i]point and click[/i] adventure game with a great story, wacky humour and lots of time travel. When they try to stop a megalomaniac tentacle that is trying to take over the world, three friends are separated in time by a malfunctioning time machine. One character is sent back 200 years in the past, one remains in the present while the third one ends up 200 years in the future. The puzzles are very cleverly designed and quite a few of them rely on the whole time travel aspect of the story. This is actually a sequel to 1987's [b]Maniac Mansion[/b] but apart from a couple of microwave and hamster jokes, you don't really need to know what happened in the first game in order to enjoy this sequel. However, if you are eager to learn what did happen, you can always play [b]Maniac Mansion[/b] as a game-within-a-game. Being able to play the first game on a computer that you find somewhere in the sequel to that game is exactly the kind of thing that set this game apart from the competition more than two and a half decades ago. I really enjoyed playing this game again after all this time. The graphics were state of the art back then but have been completely redrawn for this remastered version. As with most (if not all) remastered LucasArts games, you can switch between the original and remastered graphics, which is a nice bonus. If you've never played this game but you enjoy [i]point and click[/i] adventures, go buy this game. You won't regret it. If you did play the original game but you haven't played the remastered version yet, go buy it as well. You won't regret it either.