* Newbery Medal for children's literature: Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee

The river plays an important part of Jerry Spinelli's young-adult fiction novel Maniac Magee.

* Jerry Spinelli, author, winner of the Newbery Medal for Maniac Magee

He is best known for the novels Maniac Magee and Wringer.

* 1993: Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli

Michael then starred in a 2003 telefilm named Maniac Magee as Jeffery Lionel Magee, a 12-year-old boy who finds his way into Two Mills, Pennsylvania, a place divided by racial prejudice.

Levy was the creator of Maniac Mansion, a television sitcom based on the LucasArts video game of the same name.

These games included Mowin ' Maniac ( a Pac-Man clone based on the " Mowin ' Man "/" Mowin ' Boris " modules ), Roof Rats ( similar to SameGame and variants ), " Solitaire " ( After Dark themed ), Toaster Run ( a 3D adventure game featuring several After Dark Characters, more notably the Flying Toaster ), Zapper ( a trivia game ), Hula Girl ( another 3D adventure game based on the " Hula Twins " module from After Dark 4. 0 ), two word scramble games — Bad Dog 911 ( based on the " Bad Dog " modules ) and Fish Shtix ( based on the " Fish " modules, mainly " Fish World "), Foggy Boxes ( a connect the boxes type game based on the " Messages 4. 0 " module ), MooShu tiles ( a Mahjong-like game featuring many After Dark characters throughout the years ), and Rodger Dodger.

Johnny the Homicidal Maniac ( abbreviated JTHM ) is the first comic book by Jhonen Vasquez. The series tells the story of a fictional serial killer named Johnny C. as he explores the psychological and possibly supernatural forces which compel him to commit a string of murders.

Squee is a fictional character in Jhonen Vasquez's comic book Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, who was later featured in his own four-issue series, published by Slave Labor Graphics.

While incarcerated Larry Hoover helped form the Folks Nation which added other gangs such as: Black Disciples, Gangster Disciples, Imperial Gangsters, La Raza, Spanish Cobras, Latin Eagles, Maniac Latin Disciples, Simon City Royals, Spanish Gangster Disciples, Two Sixers, Young Latino Organization Disciples, Young Latino Organization Cobras, Black King Cobras, and International Posse.

Four stories were used in HBO's Tales From The Crypt television series: Two for the Show ( issue 17 ), In the Groove ( 21 ), This'll Kill Ya ( 23 ) and Maniac at Large ( 27 ).

Maniac Mansion on the Commodore 64.

* Maniac — banned for cinema in 1981 and again for video in 1998 ; passed with 58s of cuts on 29 May 2002

These tables were printed on dark paper ( Maniac Mansion, Uplink ), or were visible only through a red transparent layer ( Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ), making the paper very difficult to photocopy.

A photograph of one of Vasquez's friends, Leah England, serves as the middle of a portrait collection on the cover for the second issue of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.

From left: Rod Humble, Louis Castle, David Perry ( game developer ) | David Perry, Brenda Brathwaite, John Romero, Will Wright ( game designer ) | Will Wright, Tim Schafer, Chris Hecker. In his first lead role on a game project, Schafer co-designed ( with Dave Grossman ) Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle, a time-travel comedy adventure and the sequel of Ron Gilbert's Maniac Mansion.

A photograph of one of Vasquez's friends, Leah England, serves as the middle of a portrait collection on the cover of the second issue of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.

Following the focus on the Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island and Indiana Jones franchises, LucasArts entered a new franchise in 1993 with Sam & Max Hit the Road.

On October 29, 2009, Piper appeared as pro-wrestler named " Da ' Maniac " on season 5 episode 7 (" The Gang Wrestles for the Troops ") of the sitcom It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, parodying Mickey Rourke's role in The Wrestler.

Ron Gilbert ( born January 1, 1964 ) is an American computer game designer, programmer, and producer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure games, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games.

Maniac Mansion on the Commodore 64

The protagonist, Devi, is an introverted female who is currently under attack by the same forces that wrought havoc on Johnny, the protagonist of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and her love interest ( the interest ended when he tried to kill her in an attempt to " immortalize the moment ").

James " Paladin " Taggart drops in on occasion, but Todd " Maniac " Marshall is far away doing testing on Morningstar heavy fighters.

After its release, Euronymous concentrated solely on guitar after recruiting first Eirik Nordheim (" Messiah "), then Sven Erik Kristiansen (" Maniac ") as vocalists in 1986.

Later that release was cancelled, and as its replacement the band released a new studio album on March 23, entitled Maniac.

He is known for his makeup and special effects work on many films directed by George A. Romero, including Martin, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Creepshow and Monkey Shines ; he also created the special effects and makeup for many cult classics like Friday the 13th ( parts I and IV ), Maniac, The Burning, The Prowler and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.

Each player may choose to play on Basic, Trick ( called Another in previous versions ), or Maniac ( or Battle, if playing Versus ).

The premise bears similarity to LucasFilm Games ' Maniac Mansion, released in 1987, where the main character enters a mansion in order to rescue his girlfriend from a mad scientist.

Alzado also starred in the sitcom Learning the Ropes where he played a high school principal whose secret alter ego is a professional wrestler known as " The Masked Maniac.

He found a lot of success in World Class Championship Wrestling in the late 1970s and early 1980s before going to Florida Championship Wrestling, where he joined Kevin Sullivan's " cult " as The Purple Haze, another variation of the ' Maniac ' gimmick.

Campbell was also the star of the Maniac Cop B-movie series.

Maniac Mansion was one of the first games to be published and developed by Lucasfilm Games.

* The 1963 Hammer Films thriller The Maniac was partly filmed in Camargue.

The Secret of Monkey Island was the fifth Lucasfilm Games project powered by the SCUMM engine, originally developed for Maniac Mansion.

Vasquez's first comic, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, ran for eight issues and was collected as a hardcover and a trade paperback book, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut.

England also gave Vasquez the inspiration for a filler strip about a child who was dangerously afraid of losing sight of his mother, as well as the notorious " Meanwhile " filler piece in the second issue of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.

It was designed using software that would later form the basis of Lucasfilm's Maniac Mansion story system ( SCUMM ).

Most contemporary Canadian television comedies are laugh track-free, but some programs, such as the sitcom Maniac Mansion ( 1990 – 1993 ) and the children's program The Hilarious House of Frightenstein ( 1971 ) were broadcast in Canada without a laugh track, though one was added for American airings.

After play testing the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade action game and assisting with the NES version of Maniac Mansion, Schafer was assigned as a writer and programmer to the production of the pirate-themed adventure game The Secret of Monkey Island.

The character played by Wilson was Major Todd " Maniac " Marshall, a fellow starfighter pilot of Hamill's character.

Labyrinth was followed in 1987 by Maniac Mansion.

Maniac Mansion was the creation of Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, and marked the debut of SCUMM, the game engine that powered all but two of LucasArts later adventure games.

Maniac Mansion was LucasArts ' first full graphic adventure game, using a point-and-click interface rather than the text-based gameplay seen in Labyrinth.

The word " cutscene " itself was possibly first coined by Ron Gilbert while making Maniac Mansion, wherein he defined cutscenes as short " scenes " that " cut " away from the action itself, to show what else was happening in the game world when the player wasn't around.

Maniac Mansion was about a dark Victorian mansion populated by a mad scientist, his family and strange aliens.

Gilbert created a scripting language that was named after the project it had been written for, the Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion, better known as SCUMM.

The CPU of both the PC1512 and the later PC1640 was an 8 MHz Intel 8086, which was sufficient for playing The Secret of Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion and Prince of Persia.

As an example to prove her point she tells a story about one man she was dating who defecated himself at the diner table ( as seen in Issue 2 of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac ), we then cut to another flashback once again an unspecified time ago, Devi is at a night club thinking about the music that is playing, when a man dressed as a vampire named Eric strikes up conversation.

Mogul Maniac was the only game released for the Joyboard.