- 70/100
- Players4 ratings
More scores
- GameFAQsSimple
- 2.5/5
- Player reviews
- 70% positive47 reviews
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$1.79
Where to get it
2010 · Cyan Worlds · Adventure · Point-and-click adventure
The Manhole
NEC console exclusive
A world of epic wonder and whimsical magic. A fantastic world where every character comes alive and every new hallway leads to another wild dream. Just point and click. Soon you'll find yourself shooting down a winding waterway with Rejan Elephant. Click again and you're climbing to the top of the rook tower to great Molly Rhinoceros.
- Released
- 7 August 2010
- Platforms
- FM TownsMS-DOSPC-9800 SeriesTurboGrafx-16Turbografx-16/PC Engine CDWindowsiOSmacOS
- Genres
- AdventurePoint-and-click adventure
- Developers
- Cyan Worlds
- Publishers
- Broderbund
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- First person
- Themes
- Educational
- Engine
- Multimedia Applications Development Environment
- Country
- United States
- Time to beat
- 0.5hmain story1hcompletionist
About
The Manhole is an adventure video game in which the player opens a manhole and reveals a gigantic beanstalk, leading to fantastic worlds.
Players say
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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Development
The Manhole runs in black-and-white on Apple's Macintosh line of computers. It was created using the HyperTalk programming language by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller, who founded the company Cyan and would go on to produce the best-selling adventure game Myst.
Reception
Describing The Manhole as "the first children's software to require a hard disk", Macworld in March 1989 stated that its "realistic sounds, the fantasy-filled graphics, and the stack construction are truly impressive". The magazine "highly recommended [the game] for young children[, and] it's hard to imagine a playful soul of any age who wouldn't enjoy exploring the mind-tickling world inside The Manhole".
The Manhole won a Software Publishers Association Excellence in Software Award in 1989 for Best New Use of a Computer.
Awards
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Remade as
- The Manhole: Masterpiece Edition
- Built on it
- The Manhole: Masterpiece Edition
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