Color concept art for the Edisons (then the Schwartzes) in Maniac Mansion, from @danielalbu's interview with Gary Winnick. Note the absence of blue skin!
I suspect the later enhanced EGA versions gave the Edisons blue skin to suggest a pallor from not going outside for 20 years, within the restrictions of the EGA palette - something done much more effectively in VGA in Day of the Tentacle. #maniacmansion#dayofthetentacle#dott#lucasarts#adventuregames
@danielalbu Notice that Nurse Edna's red hair and Weird Ed's hunchback in DOTT originated here in concept art for Maniac Mansion, but couldn't be implemented in a Commodore 64 game due to limits on sprite design.
Namely, C64 sprites could only be 24 pixels wide, and they could only have three colors plus transparency - of which two colors had to be the same across all sprites, and only one could change per sprite! #maniacmansion#lucasarts#dayofthetentacle#dott#adventuregames
« – Dr Fred (parlant de Hoagie) : Il s'y connaît en électronique ?
– Bernard : Euh… Une fois, je l'ai vu prendre trois mille volts dans la tête et il n'a même pas sourcillé.
– Dr Fred : Il ne s'est pas écroulé ?
– Bernard : En fait, il était déjà écroulé lorsque c'est arrivé. »