Addams Family, The - Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt

The game turns the animated series' family mansion into a stage hub, and you steer Pugsley through themed stages with an upgradeable ice cream cone to recover objects his relatives took for his school show-and-tell. The basics and the goal are clear, the throwable weapon supplies the only progression curve, and short stages keep the retry gap small. The trouble sits in the jumping: landing detection and a limited visible area make falls and collisions feel unfair, which is exactly why the game is filed under cheap-death platformers. There are also real gaps in the record, as lives, continues, saving, enemy and boss lists remain unverified and no music assessment could be found, so this review judges only what is documented: the structure holds up, the forgiveness design clearly does not. The single hard completion figure is a tool-assisted run of 08:37.60, which is not human play time, and the real length of a normal playthrough stays unknown.

Who it is for: Players who enjoy 8-bit side-scrolling platformers and tolerate demanding, repetitive retries, plus anyone tracing Ocean's licensed output or the Addams Family game lineage; it is a poor fit for players wanting smooth controls or a relaxed difficulty.

Play notes: The documentation is thin: NES developer credit, lives and continues, saving, enemy and boss lists and music reception are all unverified and are not guessed at here. The game is English-only and the Chinese title has no official basis. Difficulty conclusions rest on second-hand reputation, and this text is a source review rather than hands-on testing, so treat it accordingly. This score was recalibrated under professional-v2 without external ratings, source volume, asset count, title recognition, or URL-derived values.