The Addams Family (TG16)
The TurboGrafx-16 CD version of The Addams Family, developed by ICOM Simulations and published by NEC Technologies, is unrelated to most of the others. For one, it flips the premise around: the protagonist is not Gomez, but Tully Alford. His mission is not to save anybody, but to explore the Addams mansion in order to find their fortune, and the Addamses this time are enemies. The CD support feels wasted: the graphics are ugly and poorly drawn, and the disk space is seemingly used just for some grainy stills lifted from the movie, a few digitized speech clips and the theme tune ripped directly from the TV show (not the movie). For the rest there are annoying 8-bit-ish sound effects and a number of ambient noises among the sparse soundtrack (some of which are fairly creepy, such as the screams in the “torture cellar”). Also, for whatever reason, the whole game is set as if it were a movie theater with rows of people watching under it, not too unlike Namco’s Wonder Momo which was set as a theatre play.
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