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The Addams Family is a 1992 side-scrolling platformer for the Game Boy, developed and published by Ocean Software and based on the 1991 film. Gomez Addams explores the family mansion to rescue relatives captured by Abigail Craven and Tully Alford, defeating enemies by stomping them. Four potions left by Pugsley grant speed, invincibility, swimming, or flight, with power-ups limited by collectible energy vials.

How To Play The Addams Family

Control Action
D-Pad Left / Right Walk
A Jump; land on enemies to defeat them
B Use the equipped power-up (sword, golf club, fez-copter)
D-Pad Down Duck
D-Pad Up Enter doors
D-Pad + A (Sea Monster potion) Swim underwater
A (repeated, Drac potion or fez-copter) Fly
SELECT Enter a password at the title screen
START Start / pause

About The Addams Family

Release date NA: January 1992
EU: 1992
Developer Ocean Software
Publisher Ocean Software
Platform Game Boy (also NES, SNES, Genesis, Game Gear, Master System, home computers)
Genre Action-adventure / platform
Series The Addams Family
Modes Single-player

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