The Addams Family
The Addams Family is a side-scrolling platformer based on the movie of the same name. The player takes the role of Gomez who searches for his missing family members. To find them he has to explore six…
The Addams Family is a platform developed by Ocean, released 1 January 1992 on Sega Game Gear, Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System/Mark III.
What The Addams Family is
The Addams Family is a platform game developed by Ocean and released in 1992. It was published by Acclaim. It is available on Sega Game Gear, Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System/Mark III.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Addams Family's lawyer, Tully Alford, has taken control of their Gothic mansion and imprisoned Morticia Addams, Pugsley Addams, Wednesday Addams, Granny and Uncle Fester. The player controls Gomez Addams as he explores the various rooms in the mansion, locating items and battling monsters, until he has located all of the lost family members. The game has an almost completely open-world format, unusual for games of this era, which gives players the freedom to choose what order they will save the family members in. However, Gomez cannot save Morticia until the rest of the family is rescued.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Addams Family series
The Addams Family is the second of 19 entries we hold in the The Addams Family series. It arrived 2 years after Fester's Quest. The next entry was The Addams Family in 1992.
What it launched against
The Addams Family launched on 1 January 1992, within three weeks of Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams and Baseball Stars 2.
Released around the same time: Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams, Baseball Stars 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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