The Addams Family (NES) Playthrough
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- A playthrough of Ocean's 1992 license-based platformer for the NES, The Addams Family.
Unlike Sunsoft’s Fester's Quest that was based on The Addams Family television show, Ocean’s platformer was a tie-in for the 1991 theatrical reimagining of the revered 60’s series. In an attempt to sweep the Addams' riches out from under them, the family lawyer Tully Alford has served an eviction notice and has captured the members of the family to prevent them from meddling with his plans.
To win the game, Gomez has to explore the mansion and its grounds, save his family from whatever predicaments they find themselves in, and collect a million dollars in order to unlock the vault where Tully and Fester are holding Morticia hostage.
Like in the SNES ( • The Addams Family (SNE... ), Game Boy ( • The Addams Family (Gam... ), and TurboGrafx-CD ( • The Addams Family (Tur... ) games, the mansion is an excellent backdrop for some spooky hop-and-bop action, and it does a nice job of providing the illusion of freeform nonlinearity, though certain areas only become accessible once you've found particular items or family members.
These progression gates are logical and easy to figure out. For instance, once Gomez rescues his hypothermic daughter Wednesday from the freezer and brings her to the furnace, she'll thaw and give Gomez a key as thanks. For any "puzzles" that might prove too difficult, you can check the manual, but since it spells everything out pretty clearly, you might want to avoid it if you like figuring everything out for yourself.
The graphics in The Addams Family are fun with the creepy, colorful backdrops and the bizarre enemy designs. Each area has a distinct appearance and most rooms have unique enemies to further sell the setting (a floating zombie couple dances through the air in the ballroom, skeletons lurk in the crypt, etc.). The close-up character portraits of the family members during conversations are hideous, but they do unintentionally underscore the game’s sense of humor. The sound is good, too, but it's repetitive. An excellent arrangement of the show’s theme song loops endlessly throughout most of the game, though a dungeon theme occasionally takes its place in areas like the crypt, the freezer, and the furnace.
Unfortunately, The Addams Family's gameplay is seriously flawed. Gomez’s platforming controls feel familiar and solid, but they're effectively countered by the faulty collision detection. Even when Gomez appears to land directly on top of an enemy’s head, he'll often fall directly through the enemy, and since Gomez doesn’t get any invincibility frames when absorbing a hit, he'll take massive damage in such instances. He also has a tendency to fall through ledges when making long jumps, and the swimming controls are a complete joke.
These issues are exacerbated by the game's punishing level designs. The roof, for example, is one of the biggest offenders. Once Granny has fixed the fog machine, Gomez can collect the final ingredient for Pugsley’s shrinking potion. In order to get to the fog machine, Gomez has to cross the roof of the mansion while avoiding falling tiles. Rather than just slightly hurting Gomez, being hit by a roofing tile will knock him off the roof into the garden, and so, to collect the fog, he’ll be forced to make his way back through the house to the roof to try again.
The developers clearly knew this was an issue since the manual recommends that you save Thing's invincibility power for this specific sequence. Other issues include unavoidable hazards (like making contact with the underside of floating platforms in the crypt), deadly objects that fall on Gomez without warning the instant he enters a room, and unmarked doors that lead to insta-kill spike traps.
It feels like a well-worn mantra at this point, but it must be said that nice graphics and subpar gameplay are par for the course with Ocean titles, and The Addams Family does nothing to break that mould. The Addams Family has a ton personality and charm, but like Gomez and Morticia, it’ll likely scare away most people away before they can ever become properly acquainted.
If you're like me and found yourself really wanting to like The Addams Family for the NES, do yourself a favor and check out the excellent Master System version of the game ( • The Addams Family (Mas... ). It addresses all of the NES version's shortcomings and significantly improves on the graphics. The soundtrack takes a big hit - that chirpy PSG chip was truly the Master System's Achilles' heel - but that's a very worthwhile compromise in this case.
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So much memories ,great game from days when life was better ....
I used to play this game on my aunty's NES when my Dad would take me to Bundaberg to see his relatives back in 1993 - her name is Trish and she's the most amazing person. She used to laugh at us trying to play her NES then she would totally school us and nearly beat every game we were playing in one sitting 😆
My favourite NES game as a kid, never managed to finish it though. Glad to have some closure after 30 years
It was a really good game!
This game was fucking HARD. I had it as a child. Spent countless hours and never came far.
I still remember the levels and melody lol
My play always ended at diving place lol. Just like in turtles
I think the furthest I got in this game, as a 9 year old, was The Wood. Game overs were brutal.
The Addams Family for the NES looks and sounds great, but be warned: it was made by Ocean.
Looking and sounding great was pretty much all that mattered to every single major UK/Europe-based developer until 1994.
Whats up with ocean games? I only knew to avoid those rainbow games, JBL(?)
@@Arendvdvenk Most of them looked great and played horribly.
@@Arendvdvenk LJN.
Thank you both gor clearing that up
9:30 There was no way to get the required amount of money without finding that portrait frame money room. But there was no hint at all.
One of the best games of NES.
The best game on Sega megadrive..I reached that last door before Morticia..I had this game on cassette and when u turned it it was another great game on it what wasn't even on picture..So many mysteries and hidden rooms I loved it..
Wow, I watched its cartoon series in childhood. ✅
wow that door in the library what have I been looking for all this time..Thank you, now my childhood soul can rest in peace😅
Well damn that looked easy? 29 minutes ?? Good grief, as a 8 year old i spent HOURS and never could get to the $1 million. So many game over screens..
This version is based off [The Addams Family ] 1991 film with a few changes Mortica in the film is the only one captured by Tully Alford and loneshark Craven .
Such a great gameplay. Thank you, I totally enjoyed it.
The Addams Family truly are creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky.
Don’t forget altogether ooky
@@enlongjones2394 I knew that.
Yo I totally forgot about this game! So fun as a kid!!
Finally I have seen the end of the game addams family. This game was really hard to me. When I was child...
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I think this is the first game where you can bypass the final boss and go straight to the ending.
Well, what about classic super mario? You can jump right straight to destroy the bridge instead of beating bowser by shooting fire..
@@felixuy87 You're not avoiding the boss, that's another way of killing him.
Great! One of the high scores, "DT" and "RET" is likely to be Dave and Bob Thomas, work-for-hire programmers and artists.
I remember playing this when I was 9. I had to figure everything out since it was 1992 & there wasn’t any walkthroughs on the internet I was aware of. It took quite a few tries, because I found saving Wednesday from the deep freeze always cost me a life that I needed for later. The first time I got to the end, I had to go back and find more money. cause I didn’t have the million needed to go through the last door to save Morticia. Finally beat the game and it was so very satisfying. I didn’t even know you could just rescue Morticia without killing Tully. Over the years I would pick up them sticks from time to time and play it again just for fun. One of my favorite games of all time.
What kind of house does Gomez live in damn... everything that moves will hurt you
Hmm sure does look like your everyday Ocean-published game. And top it off with that damn "fi-fi-fi-fi" as you get hit.
Surprisingly, I have never seen such a game. I know about the other part, I remember I didn’t like physics in it. And here with the management everything seems to be fine 👌🏻
Dios que recuerdos!!!!! Horas en este juego más que nada porque amabamos la música ❤️😅
it took me like forever to pass this game, but i've made it back in those days when i was a kid and could not really understand english.
you know what? i've never finish this game, i have to
Ah , memories, i was playing this game when i was a 8 y.o , this game harder than god of war
This was my favorite game. But We didn't never open that locked door. :((
This game is janky as hell but at least it hits a lot of the references of the actual IP
It's like watching 10 yr old me play, although I never figured out where/how to get into the attic. Definitely one of my favorite go to games next to Mario 1 and 3
It’s a spooky month
I couldn't finish this game ever, besides it was brutal HARD, I didn't speak English at all so I just walk around randomly and try to get the stuff missing from the select page, so you could imagine how disastrous this was, nevertheless I loved this game for its music and had countless playing hours along my best friend and his siblings since they were who got the game.
I loved this game
wanted to like this game but found it to be too dang tedious. I enjoyed the challenge and slippery controls of robocop 2 and darkman....just can't seem to get into this one
I knew I didn't hallucinate this game, for some reason I couldn't find this version for a long time.
Very well played! Have you ever been able to enter the closed door that is on the right as soon as you enter the mansion? it is the only thing I have never been able to decipher in this game, it remains a mystery after 30 years, maybe it is really a door that does not lead anywhere and it is placed there on purpose to generate doubts in the player... greetings from Argentina, Buenos Aires.
I've read a soluce to be able to finish the game tonight. The guy said he didn't know how to unlock this door either and was asking the same question.
Wonder if this was intended for 50hz? The theme song plays an octave lower in PAL, like it did in the TV Show.
It was made by a British studio so that might well be the case.
The one thing I like about Ocean games on the NES is that they have sound/music that’s similar to the C64 SID sound.
Edit: Anyone else think of the word “Cereal” when they hear The Addams Family Theme? That 90’s cereal commercial really worked - “The Addams Family…Cereal.”
ALL BOSSES
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RESCUED
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Always hated that you only had on real chance to go across the roof because i always was short of the million needed for the final boss door.
I think i may have finished it once as a kid. This was among one of the most frustrating games out there on the nES along with ninja turtles. one thing i never got tho, is why do you fight fester and gomez at the end? fester maybe as its based on the movie, but yourself?
in the landing room is secret in frame but I can't go in. I need help
I had the game boy version of this game
That one was really cool. I liked it better than this.
I remember i play this type of game but it's in black and white on gameboy (not newer version of adam family game tho)..but im not sure the title.. help
9:20 - I hate this picture frame, you can't go into a picture frame anywhere else and at the beginning I can't even just jump in, I thought I need to free Pugsley before, as there's a hint that he shrunk and can get into small spaces now but this is totally misleading. The reason why I could never finish this game before the internet was this damned picture frame. I collected all the money but missed these and it's enough to prevent you from entering the vault.
At least it’s not Fester’s Quest.
¿podias acceder al final desde el principio? o eso solo ocurre cuando rescatas a toda la familia.
ademas creo que necesitas reunir cierto importe de dinero para acceder a la bobeda. necesitas 1.000.000 para pasar
de lo contrario no puedes pasar. entonces tienes que rescatar o no a toda la familia porque no creo que te dejen pasar antes de eso. es la habitacion de la pelicula donde homero y Lucas ven la pelicula. El primero es Lucas y el otro seguramente es Tully Alford. Aunque no pusieron a la que le lavo a Lucas haciendolo pasar por Gordon.
aunque el final si esta cambiado considerado que nunca pudieron llegar a la bobeda en la pelicula. Porque en ese momento Gordon/Lucas se habia cansado de malos tratos y se volvio en contra de ellos. El juego se desarrolla cuando Homero volvia a la mansion para rescatar a Morticia. de todas maneras hay que rescatarlos a todos, ya que no creo que encuentres todo el dinero de una. Necesitas acceder a cada zona donde estan todos secuestrados. Ademas me parece un juego muy complicado. quiza para aquellos que no sepan jugar.
Spent a lot of hours on this game. Only reason I never won it was because I never collected enough money.
All health items are a "one and done." And they're severely limited. This is almost like survival horror. A very flawed one. Plus this has one of the worst swimming stage in all platforming. I usually use up Thing's power there. The home Computer versions fared much better.
Yeah, from what I remember there are only like three bits of cheese through the entire game. The swimming stage was awful. The ceiling and floor hurt you like the TMNT seaweed and the controls were ridiculous.
Ocean: masters of cheapness.
And I thought Fester's Quest was horrible! I'm digging the graphics and music. But the terrible controls, the lack of invulnerability frames after getting hit by an enemy and the swimming. It makes FQ look like a masterpiece.
I'd hate to see the Master System and Game Gear version of this since that is apparently the same exact game.
The Sega ones play much better.
nice Nintendo
26:58 this part is so BS, even if you do try out the music sheet nothing happens for so long you'd just leave thinking it didn't do anything there
The game's graphics and idea are fine, but the game sucks. The gameplay is so cheap, it won't give you time to avoid traps nor hints. It's hard to find itens to recover health. It's pretty obvious they made this game focused to kill you, not to test your skills or giving you a good time.
This is the closest to a Kanye west video game your ever gonna get. Gomez looking like Ye 😂
Thankfully this version of seems to leave out the bits that involve being batshit insane and a bigot.
The Master System version was WAY better than this.
Hell yes it was. It looked great and played well enough to feel like a totally different game.
@@NintendoComplete I like the feel of the NES version better. That applies to a lot of SMS/NES games
Terrible music and sound effects, mediocre sprites and animations. You are sure?