Copy Protection
The PC, Amiga, and Atari ST versions of Maniac Mansion came with a booklet containing codes which had to be entered to open the door at the top of the foyer in the game. The codes (which were Commodore graphics characters) were printed on brown paper in dark red so they couldn't be easily photocopied and the game came with a red cellophane "lens" to read them with. Players were given three opportunities to enter the codes correctly after which the mansion would explode, ending the game. Although the designers had intended for the copy protection codes to be in the original Commodore and Apple versions, they had to be left out because of insufficient disk space and instead an on-disk protection was used.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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