Luigi's Mansion, known as in Japan, is an action-adventure game published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube.

Luigi's Mansion was relatively well received by reviewers, despite being criticized for its short length.

A sequel, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, was announced for the Nintendo 3DS handheld system on June 7, 2011 at E3.

Additionally, a mini-game based on the series was revealed to be in the Wii U launch title, Nintendo Land, as Luigi's Ghost Mansion.

In Luigi's Mansion, Professor E. Gadd ( derived from the interjection " Egad!

Once King Boo, the final boss of Luigi's Mansion, is defeated, the player is given a rating based on the amount of treasure Luigi has found.

Luigi's Mansion begins with Luigi having won a mansion in a contest.

Luigi's Mansion was later shown at the E3 in 2001 with the Nintendo GameCube console.

The main theme of Luigi's Mansion is orchestrated and arranged by Shogo Sakai for Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Luigi's Mansion received an award for its audio by BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards in 2002.

All Nintendo GameCube systems support the display of stereoscopic 3D, and Luigi's Mansion was developed to utilise this.

Luigi's Mansion is the most successful GameCube launch title, being the best-selling game of November 2001.

GameSpot stated that Luigi's Mansion " features some refreshing ideas " and " flashes of brilliance.

GameSpot said that Luigi's Mansion " fails to match the classic status of Mario's adventures " and that the " short amount of time it takes to complete it makes it a hard recommendation.

Allgame declared that Luigi's Mansion " ultimately fails to deliver a cohesive gameplay experience over the long-term.

G4's TV show X-Play criticized Luigi's Mansion in their special on Mario games and media, calling the game a letdown for players waiting for the first Mario game on the GameCube.

The game placed 99th in Official Nintendo Magazine's 100 greatest Nintendo games of all time UGO listed Luigi's Mansion on their list of the " Top 50 Games That Belong On the 3DS ", stating " Recreating this experience on the 3DS in 3D would breathe new life into the ghosts haunting Luigi's prize mansion.

" It was later announced at Nintendo's E3 2011 conference that a sequel entitled " Luigi's Mansion 2 " will be produced exclusively for the 3DS.

Luigi's Mansion introduced two new characters, Professor E. Gadd and King Boo.

Luigi's Mansion has reappeared in other Mario games, usually acting as Luigi's home stage.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, a Luigi's Mansion stage is unlockable.

The game has achieved a level of cult status, with fans creating homage / parodies of it ; such as the YouTube " Luigi's Mansion " series.

" The audio was praised by IGN, who considered Luigi's voice acting as " cute, humorous and satisfying ", and GameSpy, who declared that the soundtrack remains " subtle, amusing and totally suitable throughout the game ".

Gerolama Orsini, Pier Luigi's wife.

To capture ghosts, the player must first shine Luigi's flashlight at them and stun them.

In E. Gadd's nearby workshop, he mentions how Luigi's newly won mansion is obviously the work of something not of this world, since it only appeared a few nights ago.

Upon learning that the red capped man ( Mario ) was Luigi's brother, E. Gadd allows Luigi to take over his duties of ghost-catching and entrusts him with his vacuum cleaner ; the " Poltergust 3000 ".

Luigi's Mansions music was composed by Shinobu Tanaka and Kazumi Totaka, and as such contains " Totaka's Song ", a song featured in almost every game that Totaka has composed.

On his definitive return to the Soviet Union in 1932, Maxim Gorky received the Ryabushinsky Mansion, designed in 1900 by Fyodor Schechtel for the Ryabushinsky family.

Dey Hill Farms, the largest of the developments was established in 1974 and received its name from The Dey Mansion located down the road.

According to Playboy Enterprises ' SEC filings, Hefner pays Playboy rent for " that portion of the Playboy Mansion used exclusively for him and his personal guests ' residence as well as the per-unit value of non-business meals, beverages and other benefits received by him and his personal guests ".

Madame Jumel received Mr. Dickens at the Jumel Mansion in Harlem and while visiting she showed him her cobwebbed dining room left just as it was after a night of entertaining Joseph Bonaparte with petrified leftover food still on the plates.

After having received almost no news for over a week, Miku goes to the defunct Himuro Mansion to look for her missing brother, Mafuyu Hinasaki.

" The Mansion Family " has received generally mixed reception from critics.

It is often associated with the historic house of the same name, Historic Strawberry Mansion, located adjacent to the neighborhood and generally thought to be the source of the community's name.

David Packard of DVD Verdict was more positive in his review of The Simpsons Gone Wild, writing that " The Mansion Family " is " another all-around hilarious episode, with a nice swipe at the Grammy Awards, the Simpsons family running amok in the mansion and enjoying all it has to offer, and Burns ' various tests at the Mayo Clinic ( my favorite gag is when Burns is slid into an MRI machine, only to hear the thing grind to a halt with an error message reading ' Clear body jam in Area 1.

In fact, Conley says, " The Producers were so happy with Gary's performance that they even called a " press conference " arranged by the movie's unit publicist, Liz Rodriguez, held by her and the " Mansion " producer team from historical Hollywood & Highland to officially exonerate Gary of any allegations that he had been fired and praised Gary's performance in the upcoming movie.

The game's current equipment consists of a board which shows the rooms, corridors and secret passages of an English country house called Tudor Mansion, although previously named variously as Tudor Close or Tudor Hall, and in some editions Boddy Manor or Boddy Mansion.

In the game's climax, Tommy stands alone as Lance, Sonny, and Sonny's henchmen raid Tommy's Mansion.

In an interview, the game's designer David Gray claimed that he had never played Maniac Mansion and was only aware of the game's similarities after it was released, " Unbelievable as it may seem, when I wrote Hugo's House of Horrors in 1989 I was completely unaware of Maniac Mansion and to this day have never played it.

He had previously applied his design ideas to the 1987 graphic adventure title Maniac Mansion, but committed a number of mistakes during development, such as dead end situations that prevented the player from completing the game and poorly implemented triggers for cutscenes.

Nonsuch Mansion bears a resemblance in its design to the original design of Nonsuch Palace, whose construction was begun by King Henry VIII in the 16th Century.

* The Robert Mansion ( Somerville Municipal Building ) -- National Register Property, Alexander Jackson Davis design, classic example of American Gothic architecture

Notable historic residences include Eildon Mansion on Grey Street built in 1855 ( later modified ) to the design of Reed and Barnes is a significant grand old mansion.

The design of Brentwood Mansion has traditionally been ascribed to the Capitol's architect, Benjamin Latrobe.

The design of the mansion is loosely based on Disneyland's version of The Haunted Mansion while the iron / glass conservatory was based on Walt Disney World's version of the ride.

The " La Fetra Mansion " was designed and built by Bacon, and his design was published in the September 1901 issue of The Architecture, the pre-eminent architectural professional journal of its time.

Both of Bushnell's business partners, Benjamin Head Warder and John Glessner, had earlier hired Richardson to design their houses: the Warder Mansion in Washington, DC, and the John J. Glessner House in Chicago.

In 1811, John Clarke ( died 1857 ) of York, architect of the ' Commercial Buildings ' in Leeds city centre, was commissioned by Nicholson to design the Mansion House.

A rare foray into residential architecture with the design of Avalon Mansion ( 1903 ) at 70 Queens Road.

Several of the design elements of Ralston Hall Mansion were copied in the design of the Palace.

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Doheny is also famous for another of his gifts — the gift of Greystone Mansion ( designed by Gordon B. Kaufmann after a design competition ) to his son, Edward ( Ned ) L. Doheny, Jr., and wife Lucy Marceline Smith ( the couple was married on June 10, 1914 ).