Family Dog (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

[@KuitlahuakR]

I loved this game as a kid. It was very hard.

[@DineNastyLakers]

That’s what she said

[@Jace-qp8ej]

And it was very short

[@EteraRPG]

Dude this game caused me TRAUMA, I thought it was chucky the killer doll. I had this memory burned inside of me for ages, thanks to reddit I found it, now I see it's not as scary but still evokes something primal inside of me

[@ShelltoonTV1]

Fun fact, Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton were both involved in the production of the Family Dog TV series. It was originally just a single episode from a show called Amazing Stories, and CBS wanted to adapt it to a TV series. The series was such a production nightmare that it was cancelled before the last three episodes could get their animation finished. Needless to say, the show was a flop for not just flawed production, but the reception was negative over being such a cruel concept. Another failed prime-time animated series.

[@roieclair4120]

the dirty drawing of each character could also have contributed to the massive fail of this horrendous show. even simple drawing like the PPG, dexter's lab or even the simpsons is better than this crap.

[@ShelltoonTV1]

It wasn't the visual style given how well the original Amazing Stories episode looked. It's just that it was so cheaply made and took forever. It missed the 1991 debut and ended up debuting in 1993. It was like the production suffered from John K. Syndrome.

[@JohnnyOTGS]

What, 2 movie directors did the show?

[@lunaticlemon2997]

And Brad Bird (creator of the iron giant and the incredibles who also was involved with writing early simpsons episodes) thought making it into a tv series wasn't going to work that is why he wasn't involved with it at all after the show premiered so cbs thought spielnigga and burton were going to keep the series alive by name alone

[@mackinblack]

Yeah no shit. Im pretty sure that anyone who searches for "family dog SNES" is well aware of what family dog is and who was involved.

[@MFields2178]

So basically you are a dog who is terrorized by this family and they abandon the dog into some doggy prison and the dog must get back to the family so he can be terrorized again? Oh and you can watch episodes of the show on KZbin.

[@DustMan46]

I used to play this game when I was 7-8 years but I never undertood it. Lol Good memories.

[@Krbyfan1]

There are people who paid full retail for this and that is a mind blowing thought.

[@rugalbernstein5913]

I thought this game was a fever dream I had as a kid but I just found an old cartridge of it with my other snes games.

[@lauriemarie3120]

I swear no one in my life knows this game exists I feel validated

[@tanyah6655]

i remember playing this game as a kid and genuinely being afraid for the safety of the dog 😭 it was so intense like if i didn’t beat the game he was dead forever lmao but always ended up getting run over by the kid in the kitchen and rage quit

[@larrynintendo6838]

That sounds just like me when I was a little kid. 😂

[@KungFuFurby]

I actually noticed that the music itself became interactive in two places: the dog pound (where each freed bird speeds up the tempo), and the last level (where the pitch increases the farther to the right you go). I usually didn't notice this so much in other SNES games.

[@susanfit47]

Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton were both involved in the production of the Family Dog TV series. It was originally just a single episode from a show called Amazing Stories, and CBS wanted to adapt it to a TV series. The series was such a production nightmare that it was cancelled before the last 3 episodes could get their animation finished. Needless to say, the show was a flop for not just flawed production, but the reception was negative over being such a cruel concept. Because of the buzz surrounding the "Amazing Stories" episode, NBC announced later that year (in '87) they'd be turning "Family Dog" into a weekly series. My memory's fuzzy, but I think the regime at NBC changed soon after. Or possibly Spielberg was bitter over the cancellation of "Amazing Stories" and opted not to continue with the network. Whatever the reason, the show didn't immediately happen... but reports persisted that it was in the works. The once-unemployed Brad Bird found himself in high demand, eventually taking a job on a new show called :The Simpsons", which became an instant success for Fox (leading to a tidal wave of short-lived animated sitcoms), Burton was drawing crowds in theaters and his films were huge renters on home video so it was little wonder when CBS announced the joint Steven Spielberg-Tim Burton produced prime-time animated series in May 1990 they'd be picking up the show -- continuously associating it with Burton’s and Spielberg's names. CBS announced In early 1990, there was a newspaper-type ad for CBS with a huge picture of the Family Dog on the front, heralding "Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton present 'Family Dog!' Coming to CBS This Fall!'" Along with the pic of the pooch was a small story with some quotes from Spielberg and Burton describing the plot and genesis of the "Amazing Stories" episode. CBS ordered 13 episodes - a standard episode order for a new series - budgeted at $650,000 per episode. The series was scheduled to debut as a 1990-91 mid-season replacement on March 20, 1991 (and it was heavily promoted during the February 20, 1991 broadcast of the Grammy Awards), but the animation production wasn't completed in time for this premiere, ultimately it would be another 2+ years before "Family Dog" finally aired. Animation was having a renaissance at the time, "The Simpsons" garnering high ratings, MTV’s quirky "Liquid Television" in the works, and syndicated, weekday and Saturday morning children’s cartoons flooding the networks. Largely hyped due to the involvement of Spielberg, the series suffered various noted production delays that plagued the show. Further complicating matters, Burton was consumed with Edward Scissorhands and Spielberg was busy with Hook and numerous other projects, so neither was very hands-on with the initial production of Family Dog. It did not get past its original network order of 13 episodes. Only 10 episodes were finished and sent back from the Wang Film Productions animation house in Taiwan, but the producers were dissatisfied with the results, so they halted production on the final 3 episodes and outsourced the 10 episodes to Nelvana for many production problems, rewrites, and "fixes and completions", according to an Amblin rep. Unlike a film, trying to “fix” animation is a Herculean task which basically boils down to completely re-animating it. And presumably that’s exactly what happened. Family Dog became a money pit with a $650,000 per episode budget that swelled to around a million in the end (at a time when Saturday morning fare averaged $250,000 an episode). Presumably because time had passed, none of the original voice actors from the Amazing Stories outing returned. Also, after 3 episodes were recorded and animated, Character actor Fred Coffin and Molly Cheek (It’s Garry Shandling’s Show) were cast as the parents. There are conflicting reports as to when exactly this occurred, but at some point around episode three, Spielberg decided to replace Coffin. Spielberg and Burton decided to send the episodes to Nelvana in Canada, which was producing Burton's "Beetlejuice" as a Saturday Morning cartoon. Meanwhile, there was a merchandising craze surrounding "The Simpsons" - everything from T-shirts and toys to CDs, with a vast array of unauthorized knock-offs floating around. Anticipating the success of the series, someone signed a deal with Applause, Inc. to produce plush dolls of the titular character, video games, T-shirts, pajamas, slippers, beach towels, even children’s dinner wear--to retail stores. As the show’s debut was pushed back repeatedly, all of this merchandise wound up gathering dust in warehouses before finally being relegated to bargain bins. "Family Dog" was rescheduled with a launch in October ’91, but when it became clear that that was unfeasible, it remained on their mid-season replacement list for the ’91-’92 season, but it still didn't happen. Unfortunately, the show would hit another snag in early ’92... The series was part of a spate of attempts by major networks to develop eventually was lumped into a category of failed prime time animated shows to compete with the surprise success of Fox's "The Simpsons", alongside ABC's "Capitol Critters" and CBS's own "Fish Police" which was based on an 1980's independent comic book series of the same name, paired with "Scorch", a goofy sitcom starring a dragon puppet (which was frequently likened to A.L.F.), flopped during half of the 1991-92 season. All 4 shows were canceled in their 1st season. In November 1992, the 10 completed and "fixed" episodes were finally handed over to CBS. It’s unclear whether the network was displeased with the show, distraught over the failure of "Fish Police", or merely annoyed at having to wait so long for the show after scheduling it (again and again), but CBS sat on the tapes for months, so the series was ultimately pushed back until 1993 as a summer replacement. Frederick Coffin was originally cast as the voice of Skip Binsford, but Spielberg decided to replace him with Martin Mull, after animation was completed on the 1st 3 episodes. But Burton and Spielberg were not happy with the quality of the finished show, so it was hidden away for a while after 10 episodes were shot (all episodes have a 1992 copyright date). In early June, 1993, CBS finally scheduled the show to air. New episodes that air on the networks from May to September are most generally being “burned off.” In other words, it was clear that CBS had given up on the show and had no intention of ordering more episodes. The June 23 release of the episode, unsurprisingly, coincided with June 11 release of Spielberg’s latest film, "Jurassic Park". Family Dog received minuscule promotion and aired in hour-long blocks on Wednesday nights for five weeks from June through July, 1993. Scheduled opposite reruns of "Unsolved Mysteries", "Beverly Hills, 90210", "The Wonder Years" and "Doogie Howser, M.D.", viewers simply didn’t tune in (or perhaps even know it was finally airing), with the first 2 episodes ranking #40 and #42 out of 94 shows in the weekly Nielsen Ratings. The show was animated and produced by Nelvana and Amblin Television, and 2 major studios, Universal Television and Warner Bros. Television. In retrospect, "Family Dog" is often considered to be a landmark production that, combined with films such as Don Bluth's "An American Tail" (1986) and "The Land Before Time" (1988) and Disney films like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988), "Oliver & Company" (1988) and "The Little Mermaid" (1989), led to the Disney Renaissance, which had films such as "Beauty and the Beast" (1991), "Aladdin" (1992) and "The Lion King" (1994). "Family Dog" is also notable as Spielberg's first animated project; he has followed up projects like Tiny Toon Adventures, Fievel's American Tails, Animaniacs, Freakazoid!, Pinky and the Brain, Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain, Toonsylvania, The Prince of Egypt, and CGI projects like Shrek. It comes fairly close in tone to being a "Beavis and Butt-head" knockoff. The animation harks back to the earliest days of "The Jetsons," and surely that's not intentional. = Of the 13 episodes initially ordered, only 10 completed production, meaning that Family Dog does have 3 “lost episodes” that has yet to uncover any information on. This game Family Dog was developed by Imagineering (who a string of odd licensed games under their belt, including The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (Game Boy and Super NES versions), Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Barbie, Barbie: Game Girl, Flight of the Intruder, Ghostbusters II, Ghoul School, Home Alone (Game Boy and Super NES versions), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, The Ren & Stimpy Show: Space Cadet Adventures, The Ren & Stimpy Show: Buckeroo$!, The Simpsons NES trilogy including Bart Vs. The Space Mutants, Bart Vs. The World, Bartman Meets Radioactive Man, Bart Simpson's Escape From Camp Deadly, and Bart Vs. The Juggernauts, Swamp Thing, adaptations of game shows like Jeopardy!, Super Jeopardy!, and Family Feud, video games based on Star Trek, and Home Improvement) and released/published and distributed by THQ's Malibu Games label (although several sources has the 1991 copyright on the box, while the screen has the 1992 copyright) around the same time. It is based on the 1993 short-lived prime-time animated CBS series of the same name by Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton, which itself based on the season 2 episode of Amazing Stories called "The Family Dog".

[@devonwilliams5738]

You put way too much effort into this comment for it to not get any likes.

[@JohnDoe-ym5ly]

Family Dog's creators took such great care making this epic game

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

It's a tv show tie-in & they both sucked.

[@enterusername4650]

@@Nathan-rb3qp dude spaming the comments is a dick move chill.

[@NintendoComplete]

Family Dog is beyond strange. Did anyone even watch the show? And who thought that a dog with PTSD would make a good main character for a zany, whimsical, fun-filled cartoon? Smh.

[@MrSuperspeedsonic]

NintendoComplete I thought.... thought.... that I saw this cartoon but don't remember actually. Anyway game looks ok, Has good points yeah. But pretty short, Je.

[@metalboo8491]

All I remember from the show is: a creepy dog catcher, and the dog swallowing the wife's wedding ring ... then retrieving it.

[@williamconnell2441]

SMH indeed

[@kevinr417]

@@metalboo8491 I just recently remembered that this show existed and ended up watching a few episodes, including the one with the wedding ring you mentioned. The husband puts the wedding ring right back onto his finger without knowing where it had been. So gross. I'd feel bad for him, but he's kind of a horrible person, blaming the dog for the ring going missing when the dog was trying to be helpful by bring it back. Actually, the whole family is pretty horrible. They made a show that seems like it's trying to be funny just kind of sad. The only redeemable character is the dog, who just ends up getting abused or neglected.

[@kevinr417]

Family Dog is a bizarre show. The animation is excellent and the music is pretty interesting, which makes the show seem like it should be zany, but it's pretty depressing to watch. You certainly feel bad for the dog because his owners are horrible people who either neglect or mistreat him most of the time, but the parents seem like they're absolutely miserable all the time, like they hate their lives and they hate each other, almost as much as they hate their neighbors. This is one of those shows that makes you question who the target audience is supposed to be. There's too much of the parents doing stuff that kids won't care about, and there's too much of the zany dog antics for most adults. Even as a fan of all kinds of cartoons, I can't say I'd want to have seen this show continue. It would have worked better as a series of shorts rather than half hour episodes. But as strange as it is to make a show like this, it's even stranger to think anyone would want to play a video game based on it. I know cross-media promotion was a huge thing back then, and there were video games about pretty much anything you could think of, including the freaking 7-up Spot, but there's nothing here that makes me think it would work well as a game. At least with Cool Spot, there was so little defined besides the character himself that the developers could do whatever they wanted. With Family Dog, they had to try to include the other characters and settings. I mean, clearly they made some of them up too, but they couldn't just put the dog in a medieval castle or a pirate ship or something. I love how many of these SNES games had you running through absolutely enormous houses full of random things that hurt you, because they felt like they had to represent one of the primary settings, and a normal house would make for too short and boring of a level.

[@professors84]

I rented this a loooooong time ago and beat it the night I rented it. Aside from some decent animation on the dog, it doesn't have a lot to offer. I remember seeing the show on TV maybe once or twice.

[@larazapata8225]

jogava com meu pai quando eu era bem criancinha mesmo, melhor jogo de infância até hoje ❤️

[@susanfit47]

Family Dog for the Super Nintendo game is based on the adult animated series of the same title, itself was based on an 1987 episode of Amazing Stories, off of CBS in 1993 (the show was supposed to come out in 1991 on March 20, 1991 as a 1990-91 midseason replacement show, but it was delayed until 1993).

[@brahmish2159]

Oh man, when I had the snes the main part I always remembered about the game was getting chased by the vacuum, it always scared me for some reason

[@LainaT]

I seem to remember the house levels being a lot longer before the dog pound level. And wasn't there a fetch mini-game where the dog and boy were outside and you had to avoid crashing in a pile of leaves? Also the kid frikkin' scared me. Swear Chucky from Child's Play got his wish and reincarnated as THAT kid.

[@dee_gg]

Yes were there not more levels than this? 😮

[@rcblazer]

I remember beating this game after renting it for a weekend. I don't remember it being based on a cartoon, so it must not have lasted very long.

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

Only 10 episodes & they sucked.

[@Bobaklives]

The Amazing Stories short was incredible, and helped make Brad Bird. The TV show was one of the most notorious failures of the early-90s attempts to cash-in on the success of The Simpsons.

[@SimSimi.ツ]

I finally found this game so long ago that I had played that I had even forgotten the name

[@darksideoftoast]

The dog's idle animation is too adorable. Were his owners in the cartoon just as awful and abusive like this game makes them seem?

[@NintendoComplete]

symbolofdeth Yeah. Fun subject matter for the kids, huh?

[@SQUIDWORD15]

They weren't that bad in the show, the game just takes the intro and turns it into a game pretty much.

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

@@SQUIDWORD15 They were horrible.

[@SophTheNeko]

@@Nathan-rb3qp I think that they were just clueless which turned the poor dogs life into a nightmare. Yeah, pretty awful, feel bad for the dog.

[@teddyp421]

Forever in my heart lol this game was crazy

[@WindowshadeCure]

This show had a surprising amount of merchandise considering that it only lasted like 6 episodes. They had plush toys too. Must have had something to do with the fact that it was executive produced by Spielberg.

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

It was also made by Tim Burton and it lasted 10 episodes.

[@BenjaMan64]

That there was a game based on this is mind-blowing itself.

[@DarkBluefire91]

I never seen the show, but I did try this game on the emulator and find it..odd.

[@Goat81093]

I remember as a kid, I used to hate this godamn game so much

[@AddyLovestar]

This music is scary.

[@KuitlahuakR]

Yes. It was a weird game

[@launchedkode]

Reminds me of them old silent movie scores

[@kevinr417]

I don't think I ever actually saw any episodes of the show itself when it aired (watched a few just now), but I remember seeing the SNES game running on a display in a Babbages in our local mall. They had a copy of Super Mario World running on a separate display. Super Mario World, I get. Buy why Family Dog? Maybe my memory is foggy though, because I also recall this same occasion as the first time I saw Super Mario World ever. But Family Dog wasn't exactly a launch title, so it seems odd that they would have been featured together and that I wouldn't have been familiar with the SNES at all. I also recall thinking that these didn't look like console games. They looked more like PC games running on high end hardware. I was like, that's Super Mario, but it looks way better than the games I have! I remember being impressed with the graphics in Family Dog too, but it's certainly not impressive to look at now. I could have sworn it had short cartoon cutscenes on the title screen, but I guess I was just watching the attract mode and thought the gameplay looked like cutscenes. It's strange what we remember sometimes, and how it doesn't always match up to reality. I wonder how well this game sold back in the day. Besides rich kids who had nothing better to spend their money on, I can't imagine why anyone would pick this over other much better games.

[@poshpaws8700]

Omg i used to play this!! Never got past the fetch tho :’)

[@michaelarojas]

Just bought this looks like fun 😎🎮🐕

[@saygoodbyetofate]

The person who did this play through did the absolute least 😂

[@metalboo8491]

i remember seeing a few episodes (vaguely)

[@jakeybarra4015]

I had tekken motion picture VHS and super mario bros VHS from the thrift store.

[@AClives07]

Damn I had this game. I bought it at blockbuster

[@WCTate]

I didn’t even know this existed

[@OswaldMiyake35]

Why all Imagineering/Absolute ganes for the SNES are very Difficult as Fucking Hell or Very Very Short as Hell. And this game is so Short, that Posibly only 3 guys did the Game and the Rest were only Names for the Credits.

[@closedwatchlatestvid]

FAMILY dog

[@Chiavaccio]

👏👏👏 great game!!💯

[@KevinGrahamArt]

I loved this cartoon. Sadly it never made it past the first season. Would love to see it come back or at least on blu Ray. I think I might do an animation cel/drawing of the dog on my KZbin channel. thanks for sharing

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

It sucked.

[@MorganNye]

KevinGrahamArt maybe it can be rebooted into a show on Disney channel or nick, (or maybe just suggesting Netflix), and maybe change the characters to be polished?

[@Jac2Mac]

Doesn't this THQ game play almost exactly like Bart vs. the Space Mutants?

[@podersemlimites]

Bufete entãoooooo feliz e ponto

[@Victor-cn1ku]

esse jogo era foda!

[@Mangokeeb]

makaku

[@JohnnyOTGS]

I am having a very hard time on who was the poorly behaved character, the Dog or the boy that I swear to Buddha looks a lot like Ludwig von Koopa?

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

The Boy.

[@tabsntoot]

its very unique but shitt at same time

[@miltonlopesdasilva]

Tem o boneco Chucky

[@Crunyil]

Bonus points anyone?

[@seannichols3508]

lettering’s c

[@W4lmartbag]

Idk why the people behinf this show wanted a snes game to go along with it like THE SHOW IS MEDIOCRE

[@TheNoKHturnal]

Wow, thats a really depressing looking and sounding game, it feels really empty and totally void of soul in every aspect...

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

Just like the show.

[@saintsheepy6682]

Never saw the show, but based on its description, I can tell I wouldn't like it as a 🐶owner myself. The game itself also feels like one of the weakest SNES games ever made, was clearly rushed to meet the show's debut as it came out the same month the show debuted, and it feels unfinished like a rough draft/prototype that was placed into stores. The only thing I even like about this game is the music in the first part of the prison stage (what was the game box thinking claiming it was an "Obedience School"? It clearly isn't), I like how it gets faster and faster as the stage progresses albeit it being repetitive, but even then and there, the stage feels too short for its own good (should have been like 8-10 floors/levels), probably would have worked better as its own type of game, like a dog rescuing others from a dog pound or something instead. And yes, like what other comments say, Billy looks like Chucky if he became an evil little demonic boy instead of an evil talking doll possessed by the spirit of a serial killer.

[@HumanHydro]

какой же редкостный кал а не игра)))