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Instruction booklet · March 1992

The Addams Family

Platform1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

Creepy, Kooky, Ooky, Spooky! Morticia has been kidnapped! Uncle Fester has lost his memory and has fallen under the spell of Abigail Craven, a conniving character who is anxious to lay her greedy hands on the Addams' hidden fortune.

Specifications

Released: March 1992
Developer: Ocean Software
Publisher: Ocean Software
Players: 1
Genre: Platform
Rating: Pre-ESRB
Series: The Addams Family
Themes: Horror · Comedy
View: Side view

What the magazines said

EGM · four reviewers

Players: 69/100 (23 ratings)
Nintendo Power: 4/5
Aktueller Software Markt: 10/12
GamePro: 5/5, 5/5, 5/5, 5/5
Mean Machines: 89%
Nintendo Life: 7/10
Player One: 94%
Super Play: 82%
Total!: 70%
VGS: 73%

BE KIND, REWINDMarch 1992

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Vol. 2 · No. 29Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢

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Week of March 6, 1992

Mar. 10

On 'Super Tuesday', U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton win most of the primaries held.

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