Mad Professor Mariarti

About Mad Professor Mariarti

Chaos has ensued in Professor Mariarti's five laboratories, as various items of equipment and other inanimate objects have come to life as a result of experiments having gone wrong, and are now a hindrance to the professor's work. Mariarti must shut down his laboratories in order to end the chaos, prove his sanity and avoid being put into a psychiatric hospital.

The five laboratories are Biological Observations, Chemical Research Dept., Computer Laboratory, Spacerocket Development and Central Power Control. The first four laboratories may be visited in any order; Central Power Control becomes accessible once the other four have been closed down. The Amiga and Archimedes versions combine horizontal scrolling with vertical flip-screen. The Atari ST version uses flip-screen in both directions.

In each laboratory, Mariarti must find and use a number of items in order to open up new areas and eventually to shut down the room. Examples of items and how they are used are:

A number of enemy characters are seen in the game, mostly themed around the laboratory in which they are situated (e.g. walking floppy disks and joysticks in the Computer Laboratory, round-bottom flasks and molecular models in the Chemical Research Dept, and mutant plants and animals in Biological Observations).