A sentient tentacle created by Dr. Fred with eventual evil aspirations of world domination.
The game, which takes place five years after Manic Mansion, opens with Purple Tentacle becoming exposed to toxic waste spewing from Dr. Fred Edison's mansion. Purple's ingestion of it results in him growing a pair of flipper-like arms, vastly increased intelligence, and acquiring a thirst for global domination. Dr. Fred catches Purple Tentacle, as well as the friendly, non-evil Green Tentacle, and keeps them both in his basement before deciding that he will euthanize them. Bernard frees Green and Purple, only for Purple to inform him of his plans of world domination and resume his conquering of the Earth. Since he can't figure out a way to stop Purple now that he's begun his mad quest, Dr. Edison attempts to send the three friends back in time to 'yesterday' using his time Machine. By doing so, they can turn off the sludge machine which produced the toxic waste so that Purple never ingests the waste in the first place, hence pre-emptively stopping him from taking over the world.
Upon arrival, they find that the Purple Tentacle from 200 years in the future has also used the time machine to bring several versions of himself to the same day to prevent them from turning off the sludge machine. Bernard and his friends successfully defeat all the Purple Tentacles, turn off the machine and restore the course of future events to normal order.
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Zombies Ate My Neighbors released on Sept. 24, 1993 | SNES, GEN, WSHP | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | |
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Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle released on Jan. 1, 1993 | MAC, PC | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | |
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Maniac Mansion released on Oct. 1, 1987 | AMI, APL2, AST, C64, NES, PC | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC |
| Character Name: | Purple Tentacle |
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| Gender: | Other |
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| Appears in: | 3 games |
| First appearance: | Maniac Mansion |
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