The Addams Family (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

[@MajinZarak]

It's difficult to think how just eight people could make a game this nice and fun.

[@dridrid2008]

And hard.

[@lu.cicerone.cavalheiro]

Not that uncommon back then. Still impressive, through.

[@afriendofbean]

@@dridrid2008 That's true that this game seems hard especially without "Game Genie" but, the other SNES game of "Addams Family Values" seems much harder since it doesn't give any information on where to go and what to do (you have to find out for yourself on what you are supposed to do) and you play as Fester moving up, down, left, and right. But here on this "Addams Family" game you only move left and right as Gomez.

[@rafaellima83]

This game was made in Europe. A 8 people team for an European game in the early 90s ... is actually a pretty large team. Very commonly games were made by a coder, a graphic artist and a musician, and that's all. Sometimes the coder would even also make the music or the graphics.... or sometimes even everything by himself. Frontier: Elite 2 was a juggernaut of a game (for its time) made by just David Braben and his musician (can't recall the name) Shadow of the Beast which is a huge classic of its era was made by Martin Edmondson and Paul Howarth both doing coding and graphics and David Whittaker doing the music. And so on.

[@michaelgcuk]

I just bought a SNES and a huge bundle of games (including Addams Family) oh the memories!!! Can't wait to play this again after so many years.

[@killahmods7570]

one of my fav snes games off all time this is a real underrated classic

[@therealseanw.stewart2071]

good times! I liked finding the propeller hat to make Gomez fly!

[@jatblack9457]

KillahMods und ich dachte, das ich der einzige bin der das so sieht 🤩

[@davec.3129]

Definitely

[@Link1813]

I agree: this game is underrated.

[@NintendoComplete]

An Ocean game that doesn't suck? Whaaaat? Seriously, The Addams Family is a pretty good Mario-style platformer, and it looks damn nice for such an early SNES game.

[@islina04guerrero30]

Me encanto

[@israelflores4626]

NintendoComplete Not every Ocean game sucks. I thought Ocean's Jurassic Park games were good.

[@thecowboy2]

37:21 You missed the Even Better Read.

[@NintendoComplete]

Israel Flores You're right, they aren't all bad. Just the great majority of them lol

[@therealseanw.stewart2071]

I thought the Flintstones (the one based on the movie) was pretty good...presentation-wise at least, it was pretty hard, though.

[@JimithyJommers-et8wg]

I remember my dad picking this game up from a pawnshop for me (there was a time when every pawnshop would have just a box of snes cartridges lying around). I never came close to beating it, saw any of these secrets, or even a majority of the bosses- but I still loved the game and this is bringing back some memories!

[@Dorelaxen]

I absolutely LOVE the movie and the original show, so it was a nice surprise when the games that came out were actually pretty decent. While it was a rental, I still had fun with it.

[@stewiegriffin5557]

So is the Fencer Sword a hidden power up you can only get secretly? Cause it destroys bosses and kinda breaks the game, but it looks like it would be way hard to beat without it.

[@Dorelaxen]

Man, I can't even remember. I rented this one about the time it came out and don't think I've played it since.

[@karlwalsh5340]

As far as I can remember the sword is only available in two places. The hidden area and in the Library, when trying to save Fester. And to be honest, you have to be a very good player to get to a boss without taking a hit. So I guess the reward is that the sword destroys bosses super quick!

[@Barbe]

I hated the movies, but loved the 60's show.

[@recreationretro5520]

For several years I have been working on the new version of this great game! Look on my channel if you are curious about the result! It's new ;)

[@Sion_Ash]

One of my favorite games. Used to rent this a lot. :).

[@stacypare7955]

Same..Blockbuster days 😃

[@johnstevens2972]

Me too. Energy video store

[@corey-bird3489]

Favorite Super Nintendo game other than Super Mario World.

[@jesusc.1116]

At Hollywood video for me

[@blakebutler900]

This was such a difficult game For me as a Kid. This guy makes it look so easy

[@murrfeeling]

I just played it as a middle aged adult, it was still kind of tough. Didn't know about the Pugsly rooms though, would have made it a lot easier. Went in blind, just the ROM and a scan of the instruction book, the essential bought-it-in-1990 experience.

[@RelaxedRetroGamerjp3527]

I just bought this game for my collection, yes these retro games are great 🙂

[@Sion_Ash]

Another good one. Aside from the slippery controls, this game is awesome. Along with one. Thank you for playing these.

[@Malbar-vs8sh]

one of my fav video game ! sounds fx, graphics, music, control, animations, level design, everything is soooooo great. So underated for sure!

[@vidya2144]

hahaha! i remember this game! i was like, 6 or 7. I've never managed to beat it but it seems to me i got through half of the game. For that young an age, i think i did pretty good! There were just too many nukes and crannies for my little self to keep track and explore. This game was so bizzare and weird and spooky for me when i was young.

[@2PeteShakur]

"The Addams Family is a highlight in almost 35 years of game development. The freedom allowed me by both [lead programmer] James Higgins and [game designer and artist] Warren Lancashire was amazing. I drew whatever came to mind, and the vast majority of the sprites created found their way somewhere into what I consider a defining title for the Super Nintendo. Although all of the Nintendo machines look far more family-friendly than their console counterparts, the SNES for me truly looked the part. It was a games machine for gamers and probably had more titles that were worth playing than any Nintendo system before or since. It held a very special place in our household, and just about every family member had their personal favourite titles. My wife and I spent far too much time battling late into the wee small hours of the morning on Bombliss when we had small children to tend, and then get to our respective jobs. It was a truly great console and well deserves a place in any retro gamer's collection. Mine is long gone, but for Zelda, Super Mario World, Super Metroid and, of course, The Addams Family 1 and 2, I will always hold it in very high regard." -- Simon Butler, graphic artist (The Addams Family - SNES)

[@aconnor8846]

Best game ever. Memories of childhood aplenty!

[@newrepublic7539]

I remember playing this game when I was a kid, I have always liked the soundtrack.

[@MrJimmyCleaver]

This game was so good that it got placed as an arcade choice for Nick Arcade in the early 90s

[@MOMONEYAKAMaurice]

I don't think any of the yellow or red teams choose to play this game in video challenge

[@onovoeinstein2030]

Eu tive uma infância muito foda pqp,jogando esses jogos de snes, vinha meus amigos na minha casa jogar, me divertia com esses jogos desse naipe,levarei esses tipos de jogos assim pro resto da vida.

[@danochoadofus4510]

amo esse jogo, jogava todo dia quando era criança

[@jeffbustamante666]

eu também ksks

[@icedvenon867]

Muito bom, mas ooo jogo dificil kk

[@mamuteroxo]

Eu também mano, só que até hoje eu não consegui zerar akaka

[@whyheytor]

such nostalgia i played this on a ps2 emulator disc with like 700+ snes games, good times.

[@Packattack9204]

Man, it’s scary how well this follows the movie…

[@tedpilledtonysoprano5512]

45:55 Eyes, fingers, toes.

[@murrfeeling]

The fire dragon and snowman...

[@jorgeegrojjorge]

Fantastic game whit incredible music Totally loved it when I was a kid good memorias!

[@recreationretro5520]

For several years I have been working on the new version of this great game! Look on my channel if you are curious about the result! It's new ;)

[@baldbull6808]

all this time I had no idea you could get a sword

[@number8802]

In the amiga version there was no sword. Also no sneakers and golfballs. But a better soundtrack ;-)

[@gameaction1269]

@@number8802 I Dint Know that there was golfballs

[@Health_first_069]

Same bro ....

[@MrKing8050]

Remember I bought this game cause Mario Kart was sold out at the time, this game was actually fun to play, second SNES game I bought

[@Outsider00]

My first interaction with Addams Family was in that game, Wednesday made me want to play that game again. The nostalgia is big. Today I just finished High School..

[@RobTFirefly]

The other artwork implies this is the movie Addams Family and you're playing as the Raul Julia version of Gomez, but the sprite totally looks like the John Astin version of Gomez from the original TV series.

[@Dan261178]

I would have said it resembled Glenn Tarantos version of Gomez from "The New Addams Family" TV show from the late 90`s

[@princessmarlena1359]

Both were great as Gomez Addams.

[@schitzoclown]

Noticed that too!

[@cortadew]

It looks like Johnny Depp to me lol

[@DNchap1417]

Surprisingly good game. The controls feel a bit slippery at first- Gomez moves a little too fast- but soon you get the hang of them. I like the fact that this blends Mario-style plattforming with the exploration and hub system of Metroid. While there’s a recommended sequence, you can play the game in any order you’d like and the challenge stays pretty much the same, making the game highly replayable. There is quite a variety of enemies to keep it fresh, and there are tons of secrets. Perhaps way too many. You could finish the game and still not find all the treasure.

[@rodolfovargas7952]

The Addams Family is a great movie and has a great game too, on the SNES. Gomez is becoming like Mario, and there are ways he can attack enemies like him.

[@Luke17d]

I remember my parents buying this game when I was little. I thought I was going to like it. I beat that game at such a young age, I felt accomplished!

[@DerivativeWorker]

It's pretty nuts when you find the double secret rooms.

[@84blizzle]

Wow, I remember this game!

[@4lifejeph]

Really fun game. Lots of hidden stuff and rooms to find.

[@recreationretro5520]

For several years I have been working on the new version of this great game! Look on my channel if you are curious about the result! It's new ;)

[@bohemianfapsody9218]

Jester’s Jump still gives me cold sweats 25 years later.

[@murrfeeling]

SUCH a frustrating screen.

[@maliciousbugman]

I'd be very surprised if games like this didn't have an influence on 90s Rareware games. You can definitely see the foundations for such games here, particularly the Banjo Kazooie games.

[@recreationretro5520]

Well, I've been making a new version for a few years! I'm working on it. Go see on my channel (resent) if you are curious about what it can give! ;)

[@jodyyates3160]

So many memories of this game!!

[@ianofliverpool7701]

lol it took me weeks of hard game play to finish this game and I knew less than half those hidden rooms, This was my favourite Snes game.

[@DerOllie]

Oh the memories, the sound alone triggers the memories of my younger years....

[@mardo305]

Knowing how to get the sword would of made my childhood little better. If only we had youtube back then.

[@murrfeeling]

It's harder to hold on to than you see here. I'd usually have it for a minute before I touched a wall spike of something and it was gone.

[@riderzinc]

My childhood memories came flooding back, Actually feel happy for once lol

[@jannybekhof6148]

Good old times 🥰 i still play this game

[@tmc3567]

I only liked this game for a week. After that it made me anxious.

[@koshaz3x]

God dang it, so many secrets, no wonder I found it so difficult back then.

[@skaladarrellgodeater1070]

This IS a great Game x3 And... You found more secrets than me xD

[@nouadhiboufishingforce8911]

Hhhhh old days I was about to sleep and all of a sudden it came up into my mind and here I am on your channel lol

[@hostandersson4301]

Used to love playing this at the after school club (: ( but I want the golf ball! )

[@king-of-a-thing]

This game looks great, is fun to play and sounds good. Who would have thought an Addams Family metroidvania would turn out well?!🤔🤯💪

[@bulgingbattery2050]

I was never able to get through the whole game. But then again, I was just a kid.

[@yerllytatianarengifo7719]

😢😢😢 esto me trae tantos recuerdos de mi papá 🥲🥲 antes de morir me dio un Nintendo 64 y este juego me recuerda a él amaría jugarlo de nuevo realmente amaría estoy llorando de lo lindo que sentí al ver este video

[@superhenry97]

Lo siento mucho por tu padre 😢😔

[@thecowboy2]

"Quicksand, fumes, toxic waste..... it's all ours."

[@DJKnight86]

Just curious how bottomless is quicksand

[@jilllovesall4549]

Omg memories of me and my brother playing this when were kids

[@dziwic]

For some unknown to me reason I decided to beat this game recently. I have no prior experience with it, I never had SNES when growing up, I never even played it on emulator. But since I really like how it looks and I love everything halloween, I decided I will pick it up even though I'm not great with oldschool platformers. I'm 37 now and man... Git Gud doesn't even cut it. It's not the first time I'm playing a game aiding myself with solution/videos to get trough, but it's the first time I'm doing it for a platformer WHILE STILL grinding attempt after an attempt like some goddamn maniak. I don't know how anyone is supposed to find all those secrets on their own let alone finish the game without them. Even though I bought a cartridge, I moved to emulator bc of the ability to save. Without it - even with all the extra lives in the beginning - I wouldn't get past the deep fridge. Not that I got much further, but to hell with it. I WILL finish this game no matter what. S**t just got personal.

[@TiroDvD]

From the manual: Secret doors exist everywhere; of course, these doorways are usually invisible to the human eye, so exploration of walls and floors in highly recommended. Look out especially for inconsistencies in appearance. it is all very deceptive, but highly rewarding if discovered!

[@ryanmason2502]

This game has perfect music.

[@Iddqd328]

Weird thing that people dont noticed its the Sprite of the Gomez character that is from the black white old series and all the Pictures are from the movie including the Raul Julia's Gomez lol

[@EidoEndy]

Does this game count as a metroidvania? It's basically one big interconnecting level, where you get upgrades (even if they're pretty much just health).

[@The_Boctor]

It almost feels like a combination of "hop and bop" with metroidvania, yet certain elements are also weirdly evocative of Jet Set Willy. The mansion setting, the individually named rooms, and the fixed/linear paths of certain enemies, to name a few.

[@Jac2Mac]

This was the very first SNES game ever made by Ocean.

[@jhoanr4595]

Cuando tenía 7 años no sé cómo terminé jugando este juego en la ps2, curiosamente pensé que era un juego de Mario por un par de años🤣

[@peterdeak6932]

I find it funny that this game was loosely based on the 1991 Addams Family movie, but Gomez's in-game portrait resembles Luis Guzmán, who did take on the role some thirty years later in Wednesday.

[@sailorcardcaptor2661]

This should be on switch 🌱

[@bmshaven]

@@PokemonShinyLover I can't imagine this generation of gamers would be able to handle this butt-clenching of a platformer. I tried so many times to get into this but it's pure 'Ocean' platforming, slippery controls and all, but with maze like level design thrown in. The game requires such precision that I just couldn't get into it.

[@hatory5642]

No one: Literally no one: Penguin problems: 4:27

[@masterj4777]

This is some Damn smooth game play 👍👍👍 This game is way better than Fester's Quest 🤦

[@DeathNeff]

This game is my childhood I would be happy if they are doing a Remaster but shamefully license issues and ocean not around anymore.

[@CrimsonNeo]

The soundtrack does not sound so atmospheric as Mega Drive Drive version here.

[@brucew7339]

I only remember the first part, outside the house. I guess cause I never got past it lol

[@grimacepeppersworth9052]

Wow. Did NOT expect to watch that whole video haha

[@e.w.3989]

back in 1996, me and my brother were going to buy a video game on a rainy day. Our parents would let us get just one video game. I wanted to get Adams, but my brother convinced me to get Super Adventure Island. We chose SAI, and this game was left at the store for someone else to enjoy. Sigh...

[@kooijbas]

I love the games room tune.

[@kieranmcelhill1899]

Iv so many happy memories of this game

[@r9shari87]

Missing old days😣

[@matttracy9620]

Playing this game for the very first time on the Funkey. Loving every minute of it.

[@andystevenson5067]

I remember the VHS of the movie had an ad for this game in the previews

[@Jamesamong007]

This looks like a mix up of the movie and tv series, Like the portraits are Raul Julia but the Gomez sprite resembles John Astin from the show

[@CPT85]

This game was super addictive but I could never beat it for the life of me...

[@AntoniaWestFitness]

I loved this game so much!!

[@retrogamer8085]

i remember the company Ocean making really good music for their games, i.e. Addams Family and also Robocop 3. i had this game back then but i remember not liking it because it had slippery controls and was hard. i may pick it up cheap online and give it another whirl.

[@DelayLamaKaraokeClub]

0:45 I honestly thought "One Winged Angel" was going to start playing

[@LastRealPlayaAlive]

One of my all time favorites!!

[@recreationretro5520]

For several years I have been working on the new version of this great game! Look on my channel if you are curious about the result! It's new ;)

[@erickherlaz4328]

Ese juego lo jugaba desde muy pequeño, y nunca le entendí, y ni avance por qué no sabía leer jajaajajaj me trae mucha nostalgia :")

[@igorcarvalhopadilhaandrade5886]

3:43 🤩Good Work!🤩

[@patrickscherdin7552]

This is a good game to play

[@corey-bird3489]

This masterpiece is mentioned in my video Video Games Do Furnish a Hobby

[@elpato9130]

I don´t have the minimal idea, when was having 8 years old was can finish this game. Very hard, and tough zones. Now at my 34 is impossible to beat it!!!!

[@afriendofbean]

This is a fun game to play which I can only beat with "Game Genie." However, it's too bad you can't choose any Addams Family member you want but can only play as Gomez since if you can choose any other (Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Granny, or Fester) the ending would be different for each character.

[@cherylleigh5646]

Loved this game as a kid and was gutted when you didn’t go down the book in the library!

[@corey-bird3489]

Favorite Super Nintendo game

[@yusakug]

One of Ocean's better games, definitely. This and Fester's Quest for the NES (which is nowhere near as bad as most make it out to be) remain my favorite Addams Family video games.

[@NintendoComplete]

yusakug I totally agree, Fester's Quest is awesome. I love it.

[@therealseanw.stewart2071]

Hello I see you a lot in 90's Commercials too. What impeccable taste.

[@yusakug]

The Real Sean W. Stewart - Thank you so much!

[@recreationretro5520]

For several years I have been working on the new version of this great game! Look on my channel if you are curious about the result! It's new ;)

[@Dorian_Scott]

I prefer this game to Fester's Quest. The soundtrack isn't *_as_* good, but at least it captures the Addams Family aesthetic well and isn't frustratingly hard.

[@ANDRADEJOTAPE]

Duas versões empatam no quesito jogabilidade: Mega Drive e SNES. A diferença é apenas o audio que no SNES é sample e no meguinha, sintetizado.

[@donthespotter6550]

Use BLRGG to go to last level. I wish AVGN would do a let's play or a more in depth review of it

[@kirkmcdames2129]

For a 6 year old kid. I didn't miss much of anything on this game. I spent hours on this, figuring it out. ADHD kid, so I probably hyper focused on it

[@fatu1738]

It's just like Mario World!

[@DonkeyFilms]

Gomez the Hedgehog

[@mysticalgamer1013]

Oh my goodness. I haven’t played this game in a dogs age and then some

[@otisroseboro5613]

The Addams Family Video Game Is The Best 💯

[@Saphykitten]

After you get the third heart power up, do you have to exit the stage like that?

[@pulsebot5710]

lmao the game over screen has 1 ups that's great

[@danielanderson6611]

This is better then the new Addams family game

[@otisroseboro5613]

Love this video game classic

[@ericjohnson6634]

I believe I finished this way back when I was young, but I never found half of those secret rooms.

[@scrumtios0]

Wish I could go back

[@mr.vidjagamez9896]

Despite feeling like you are always running on ice (at least Genesis version), I was always very fond of this title. Addams Family Values is another good one to check out, going with a Fester's Quest style top down view and taking cues from Zelda. Puggsly's Scavenger Hunt I also kind of like for its ridiculous difficulty. Its hard as nails, but never felt difficult due to bad game-design.

[@marcosgrave1114]

Old times :')

[@OswaldMiyake35]

Tecnically its a Mario Game with The Addams Family slapped on it. But its still good.

[@Quimper111]

It's a Zool

[@murrfeeling]

It's a hop-and-bop. Super Mario Brothers may be the king of the hop-and-bop genre but it sounds crazy to call 200+ different 8 and 16 bit games "technically Mario games".

[@frankensteinmonster1931]

You’d think that version of Wednesday Addams would be the last person needing rescuing.

[@gelugon2105]

Barely four minutes in and you already have 32 mans.