The Manhole: Masterpiece Edition

The Manhole: Masterpiece Edition is an enhanced version of Cyan's 1988 children's adventure game, The Manhole and the 1992 edition, The Manhole: New and Enhanced. In this game, you open a manhole cover and find a beanstalk that you can either climb up or down, leading to fantastic new worlds in either direction. There is no beginning or ending to the game.  The goal is just to explore and have fun.

The game was developed with a HyperCard-like engine. It was first released as The Manhole: CD-ROM Masterpiece Edition for Mac OS and Windows 3.1 in North America in 1994.  It was released as The Manhole: Masterpiece Edition on iOS and 32-bit Windows worldwide in 2010. 

The Manhole: New and Enhanced is now supported by ScummVM, a program designed to let 2D adventure games run on multiple platforms. With ScummVM, it can run on modern versions of Windows, as well as Linux, Mac OS X, and many consoles such as Dreamcast, Wii, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable. For a complete list of platforms supported by ScummVM, see here.