The Manhole
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Cover art for The Manhole: CD-ROM Masterpiece Edition
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| Developer(s) | Cyan Worlds |
| Publisher(s) | Brøderbund, Activision |
| Designer(s) | Rand and Robyn Miller |
| Engine | Multimedia Applications Development Environment |
| Platform(s) | Mac OS, TurboGrafx 16, MS-DOS, FM Towns, Microsoft Windows, iOS |
| Release | 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2007 (Steam)(PC only)
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| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
The Manhole is a adventure video game intended for children in which the player opens a manhole and reveals a gigantic beanstalk, leading to fantastic worlds.
The game was first released on floppy disks in 1988 by Cyan, Inc. (now Cyan Worlds) and distributed through mail order. In 1989, it was produced for Activision as CD-ROM version based on that floppy disc game. This version was the first computer game distributed on CD-ROM (although there had already been two games released in late 1988 in Japan for NEC's PC Engine game console on its CD-ROM² format). It runs in black-and-white on the Apple 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. The Manhole was later also released for the PC Engine and FM Towns.
The game was re-released for MS-DOS twice, once in 1992 by Activision as The Manhole: New and Enhanced (including a Windows 3.1 version) and again in 1995 as The Manhole: CD-ROM Masterpiece Edition by Brøderbund which featured the use of color, music, voice, sound effects, and some new characters. Cyan artist Chuck Carter designed all of the color graphics in about 3 months using StrataVision 3D. In 2007, the game was released on GameTap. As of February 2011 the game is available from Good Old Games,iTunes, and as part of the "Cyan Complete Pack" on Steam.
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