The Addams Family
Creepy, Kooky, Ooky, Spooky! Morticia has been kidnapped! Uncle Fester has lost his memory and has fallen under the spell of Abigail Craven, a conniving character who is anxious to lay her greedy hands on the…
The Addams Family is a platform developed by Flying Edge, released 31 December 1992 on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Famicom, Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Amiga.
What The Addams Family is
The Addams Family is a platform game developed by Flying Edge and released in 1992. It was published by Misawa Entertainment. It is available on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Famicom, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, Arcade and Atari ST/STE.
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 third of 19 entries we hold in the The Addams Family series. It arrived 12 months after The Addams Family. The next entry was The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt in 1992.
What it launched against
The Addams Family launched on 31 December 1992, within three weeks of Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting and Moto Roader MC.
Released around the same time: Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Moto Roader MC.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Quick answers
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