LucasArts - The Early Years (Part 6 of 12)

David Fox talks about his early work on LucasArts games. He was a founding member of the Games Division at LucasFilm and was the designer, project leader, and one of the programmers for the games "Rescue on Fractalus!", "Labyrinth", "Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders" and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure". He also worked on "Maniac Mansion" as the primary script programmer. Fox was part of the memorable team that included Ron Gilbert and Noah Falstein.

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[grimlock047]

if someone would like to read about the censorship in Maniac Mansion for the NES search "The Expurgation of Maniac Mansion" it's really interesting and funny.

The fan game "Maniac Mansion Deluxe" and the team who made it were shut down by modern lucasarts ( lucasfangames.de ), but it's still around in abandon ware sites for download.

It was made with the AGS (adventuregamestudio.co.uk) engine