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The New Addams Family

They're creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky, and in trouble up to their ears! It seem that a nefarious real estate agent has designs on turning the family mansion into a high-rent amusement park, and the only…

17 December 2001

The New Addams Family is an adventure developed by 7th Sense, released 17 December 2001 on Game Boy Color.

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What The New Addams Family is

The New Addams Family is an adventure game developed by 7th Sense and released in 2001. It was published by MC2-Microïds. It is available on Game Boy Color only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

They're creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky, and in trouble up to their ears! It seem that a nefarious real estate agent has designs on turning the family mansion into a high-rent amusement park, and the only way the Addams family can save their old haunt (no pun intended) is to win a court battle. Since courtroom dramas don't make for good video games, the object here is to help the well-meaning Addams clan locate the original ownership papers for the house in order to prove that the land is rightfully theirs. You'll be able to explore 30 massive levels of spooky territory making your way through the mansion, the high court, town hall, a greenhouse, a mineshaft, city streets, and more. There…
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How it plays

Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the The Addams Family series

The New Addams Family is the 12th of 19 entries we hold in the The Addams Family series. It arrived 7 years after Addams Family Values. The next entry was The Addams Family: Mystery Mansion in 2019.

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What it launched against

The New Addams Family launched on 17 December 2001, within three weeks of Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams and Ikaruga.

Released around the same time: Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams, Ikaruga.

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When did The New Addams Family come out?
The New Addams Family was released on 17 December 2001 for Game Boy Color.

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