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Minimum System Requirements
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Pentium(R) III 800 MHz or faster processor
128 MB RAM
DirectX 9.0 Compatible 32 MB T&L capable Video Card (ATI Radeon 7500 or greater; NVIDIA GeForce 2 or greater)
DirectX 9.0 Compatible Sound Card
800 MB of free hard drive space
CDROM or DVD drive
DirectX 9.0 (supplied)
Table of Contents
Installing Playboy: The Mansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Complete Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Iconorama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Playing the Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
The Main Gameplay Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
The Action Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
The Roster Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
The Hef Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
The Mansion Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
The Playboy Magazine Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
The Playboy Photoshoot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
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Installing Playboy:
The Mansion
Please close all open applications, including virus protection applications. You may turn the virus applications back on after installation is complete.
Insert the Playboy: The Mansion disk 1 into your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. The Autorun program will appear. Follow the directions shown on your display.
If the Autorun program does not appear automatically, click on START from the Windows Taskbar and select RUN. Then type in D:\Autorun into the Run dialog, and click OK or press ENTER. (If you CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive is something other than "D:", please insert the correct drive letter.)
Starting Playboy: The Mansion
Insert the Playboy: The Mansion disc in the drive.
Click START, then All Programs (or Programs)
/ Playboy: The Mansion / Playboy: The Mansion.
Complete Controls
Use the mouse pointer to access all items and areas in the game. The following hotkeys will allow you even quicker access to specific areas and items.
Slow Down |
Pause Game |
Normal Speed |
Wall Display |
Mood Display |
People Finder |
Main HUD UI Controls |
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Move Hef |
Left-click on location to move to |
Camera Control |
Arrow keys (or right-click and |
Magazine Menu |
drag) |
F1 |
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Hef Menu |
F2 |
Mansion Menu |
F3 |
Roster Menu |
F4 |
Relationship Menu |
F5 |
Toggle Walls |
F6 |
Toggle Mood Display |
F7 |
People Finder |
F8 |
Save Game |
F10 |
Load Game |
F11 |
Soundtrack Menu |
F12 |
Time / Speed Controls |
1-4 |
Pause Game |
ESC or 2 |
Cancel |
Right-click |
Toggle HUD |
Spacebar |
Re-center oh Hef |
Home |
(while in People Finder) |
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Common Menu Controls |
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Sidebar items |
Arrow keys up and down |
Upper Icon Submenus |
Function keys |
Move to next page |
Arrow keys left and right |
Accept / OK |
Enter |
Exit / Back |
ESC |
Bottom Buttons |
Number keys |
Magazine Menu Cover Price & |
Up / Down / Left / Right |
Ad Quantity & Magazine Cover |
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Star |
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End Party |
Click on Hef |
Photoshoot Controls |
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Move |
Arrow keys or ASWD |
Snap Picture |
Left-click |
Zoom Out |
Mouse Wheel or - |
Zoom In |
Mouse Wheel or + |
Change Pose |
F1 |
Change Frame |
F2 |
Change Wardrobe |
F3 |
Show Mark |
F4 |
Default Camera Position |
F5 or Home |
End Photoshoot |
X or ESC |
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ICONORAMA
As you play Playboy: The Mansion, you’ll see various icons on your screen.
Interests & Professional Categories
TV & Movies |
Music |
Sports |
Politics |
Arts & Lit |
Sexuality |
Humor |
Tech & Toys |
Fashion |
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Additional Professions |
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Staff Photographer |
Staff Journalist |
Celebrity Playmate |
Playmate |
Staff Playboy Bunny |
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State of Mind or Action |
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Success |
Angry |
Failure |
Jealous |
Gain (to interest or fame) |
Tired |
Loss (to interest or fame) |
Following Orders |
Drunk |
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Stats, Drives & Relationships
Casual Relationship,
Casual Action or Drive
Professional Relationship,
Professional Action or Drive
Romantic Relationship,
Romantic Action or Drive
Basic Conversation Action
Leisure Drive
Entertainment Drive
Fame
Miscellaneous
Room Value
Playing the Game
New Game Screen
Professional Development
Drive
Really Good Mood
Savagely Bad Mood
Physique
Intellect
Charm
Choose New Game to start living the high life! In Playboy: The Mansion, there are two different styles of play: Mission Play and Freeform Play.
Mission Play
Mission Play challenges you to progress through a series of missions that follow the road Hef took to build the real Playboy empire. You’ll learn how to hire staff, take photoshoots, hold parties, request content, make girlfriends, make friends and, if you’re lucky, make love.
A Classic or Modern mansion layout is available to you, but as you customize your mansion, your tastes will transform it into a place you can truly call
your own.
Freeform Play
Freeform Play allows you to progress and build the Playboy Mansion with no holds barred. You reach the goals when you choose, and take as long as
you desire. Hang out in the Grotto, throw parties, and cruise the room
for girls. Publish bigger and better magazines and watch your 5 circulation rise.
The Main Gameplay Screen
From the main gameplay screen, you control all aspects of your empire and may access any one of the game’s six primary menus.
Bank
Account
Magazine
Menu
Hef
Menu
Mansion
Menu
Roster
Menu
Relationship
Menu
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shows you a “who’s who” of the Playboy Mansion. You’ll see who’s |
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for hire and who’s currently in your little black book. You can also |
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from this menu. Click the icon or press F4 for the Roster Menu. |
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contains your goals, stats, finances and a help screen. Click the icon or |
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Hef Menu. |
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Menu allows you to choose the content for the current issue, review |
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and select your Playmate of the Year. Click the icon or press F1 for the |
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Menu lets you create the Playboy Mansion of your dreams. Click the icon |
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the Mansion Menu. |
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pauses the game, and also allows you to save and load games, adjust the |
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check out the soundtrack and visit the “extras” menu filled with |
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cheats. Click the icon or press ESC to enter the Pause Menu. |
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The Action Menu
Interacting with Your World
Click on a person or object to see the Action Menu. The Action Menu gives you the opportunity to throw a party at a moment’s notice or interact with any of the objects or people in your immediate vicinity.
Use “Command” options to give people orders.
•Request Interviews, Essays or Cover Shoots from celebrities.
•Request Articles, Centerfolds or Pictorials from staff members.
•Ask Playboy Bunnies to greet guests or to serve drinks.
•Change a Playmate’s wardrobe.
•Ask people to follow you or order them to stop.
Use “Conversation” options to develop casual, professional or romantic relationships with people.
Casual conversation options have handshake capsules.
Professional conversation options have performance graph capsules.
Romantic conversation options have heart capsules.
Basic conversation options have portrait capsules and are not specific to a particular type of conversation.
The more you talk, the more options you’ll have available to you and the stronger your casual, professional or romantic relationship is likely to become. The stronger your relationship, the more likely you are to succeed in any conversation option or command.
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