The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun
The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun is based on the Belgian comic book of the same name. The basic plotline is the same: Professor Cuthbert Calculus gets kidnapped and the player, in the role of…
The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun is an adventure developed by Infogrames Entertainment, released 1 February 1997 on Super Nintendo Entertainment System and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun is
The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun is an adventure game developed by Infogrames Entertainment and released in 1997. It is available on Super Nintendo Entertainment System and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun is based on the Belgian comic book of the same name. The basic plotline is the same: Professor Cuthbert Calculus gets kidnapped and the player, in the role of Tintin, needs to rescue him. The rest is more loosely adapted: in contrast to the comic, which is mostly based in Peru, this game offers many different locations all over the world. The gameplay itself is a typical platforming action: Tintin walks through the levels while avoiding the enemies. Pretty much everyone, e.g. little girls and security guards, is out to hurt Tintin who has no means of defending himself. This means the most important aspect is learning enemy placements, their…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Adventures of Tintin series
The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun is the fifth of 14 entries we hold in the Adventures of Tintin series. It arrived a year after Tintin in Tibet. The next entry was The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun in 1997.
What it launched against
The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun launched on 1 February 1997, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII (1997), Theme Hospital and Money Puzzle Exchanger.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII (1997), Theme Hospital, Money Puzzle Exchanger.
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