I played this the way it was meant to be played: playing it on Weird Ed's community in Day of the Tentacle in the remastered version.

I gotta say though, replaying this shows how not malleable the progression is. There are many mandatory tricks you have to solve (like Edna's safe and repairing the wires in the attic). Kinda wish this had more paths to the endgame instead of purple tentacle being the puzzle that can be solved multiple ways.