THE ADDAMS FAMILY (Game Boy) Walkthrough Complete with solutions for every area! (C) 2001 by Jessie Eubanks OUTLINE ======= 1: Introduction and Notes 2: Controls 3: Items 4: Order of Walkthroughs ** Graveyard ** Boiler Room ** River ** Icebox ** Toy Box ** Attic ** Cellar 5: Credits and Copyrights INTRODUCTION AND NOTES ====================== Hey, welcome to this first Addams Family (Game Boy version) walkthrough! Nothing has been posted on this game except for a few Game Genie codes, and I'm here to at least add something to the pittance that has been posted on this game. I am probably one of four people who owns this game to this day, and so here is my walkthrough for it. Yes, I saw the movie that it is based on. It was pretty good. There are, though, some things you just gotta know about this walkthrough so you don't get thoroughly confused by its layout or its wording. ** I'm doing the walkthrough in the order that you need to go to have the easiest time beating the game. This game also needs to be beaten in one sitting because there is no save option, so you're lucky I'm here to waste my time and do this walkthrough. ** There is no reason to ever go in the woods or the beehive. There is nothing valuable in the woods or the beehive except for a Dracula potion that is next to impossible to get. This is why I did not add a Woods/Beehive section to the walkthrough. So, with those two things in mind, read on! CONTROLS ======== Since I would bet that about 98% of the video game-playing population has never even touched/seen/heard of this game, I'm going to explain the controls. Left/right: Move left and right. A: Jump. Tap A repeatedly as Dracula to fly. B: Fire your current weapon. Down: Duck. Down+B: Look down so you don't have to make any blind falls. Up: Enter doors, move up in water. Start: Pause the game. Select: Switch weapons. ITEMS ===== There are several items you get in this game. Some have temporary effects, while others stay with you throughout the course of the game. The temporary items are listed first, followed by the ones you keep and then the minor power-ups. FRANKENSTEIN POTION _ | | | | / F ----- Turns you into a Frankenstein monster that can sustain 10 hits without damage before turning back to a human. SEA MONSTER POTION _ | | | | / S ----- Turns you into a sea monster, which in turn allows you to have better swimming control in the water. Find the sea monster potion in the river. WOLFMAN POTION _ | | | | / W ----- Turns you into the wolfman, who moves a whole lot faster than your normal character. Be careful that you don't fall into a pit with your newfound speed. Find the wolfman potion in the boiler room. DRACULA POTION _ | | | | / D ----- Turns you into a vampire who can fly if you repeatedly tap the A button. I was never able to get it to work. Find it in the beehive, if you really feel like going there, which I DO NOT advise. It's hidden in a bed of spikes that is next to impossible to fly out of. DAGGERS The weapon you start the game with. An all-purpose monster-killing machine. GOLF CLUBS Acquired from Wednesday once you rescue her from the graveyard. I think they can be used to help you gain better control in the water, but I've never been able to achieve this effect. If you stomp on an enemy though, they can be used to smack him off the screen. ICE CUBES You will receive the ice cubes from Lurch when you rescue him from the river boss. Use the ice cubes to float across liquid areas. They crumble after a short while. ICICLES Gotten in the icebox once you reach the end of it. There is no boss to fight in the icebox. HOT COALS Obtained from Granny once you rescue her from the boiler room. They are more powerful than your daggers. Keep this in mind when you are in the toy box. BUILDING BLOCKS These can be used as a substitute for the ice cubes. Because of their more durable structure, they last longer than the ice cubes in water. Defeat the toy box boss to get them from Pugsley. You can also use them as stepping stones, although they are usually not useful in this particular aspect. TEST TUBE Refills half your current weapon's energy. FLASK Refills all of your current weapon's energy. SMALL HEART Refills one energy heart. LARGE HEART Refills two energy hearts. WALKTHROUGHS FOR EVERY AREA (except the woods and beehive) ========================================================== Graveyard --------- I put this area first because this is where are supposed to go first. Your daughter Wednesday is being held captive by a monster in the crypt at the end of the graveyard. You start outside the front door of your mansion. The graveyard is to the left of the mansion. Kill the ghosts and the bats that you come upon. Don't worry about running out of daggers or anything - there is a test tube halfway through and a flask when you reach the crypt. The ghosts are shot away with one dagger, but the bats die when you throw two daggers at them. Jump on anything that's restricted to the ground. Run away from the ghosts when they are right above you. They will dip down in an attempt to hit you, and they will if you aren't walking away from them. When you get to the crypt, press Up to enter. A Grim Reaper-like boss monster is inside. He floats up and down and fires tiny skulls from his mouth. Avoid these at all costs - they kill you in one hit. Duck and jump over them as needed and hit the Grim Reaper in the face with your daggers. He will blow up when he is dead. Wednesday is now free, and she gives you the golf clubs, ending with the words "I hope you can swim!" This is sort of a coded message - it's supposed to mean that the door leading to the river is now open. Don't go to the river just yet. Leave the graveyard and go inside the house. Now that you have more than one weapon, you can switch between them with the Select button. Boiler Room ----------- The boiler room is located down the first flight of stairs to the right of the house's entrance. Go inside the house and go down that first flight of stairs to the right. Get the small heart to the right of the staircase and go to the left. Press Up at the big metal door to enter the boiler room. Stay on the uppermost path at all times. If you remain on this path, you will eventually run into the wolfman potion. The wolfman potion allows you to move a lot faster than you normally would. You have to be careful with this power though. If you're moving fast and not caring where you're going, you'll fall in the pit at the bottom. Jump on any rats you see. Don't waste your daggers. If you have to get rid of the rats, pounce on them and then use your golf clubs to smack them away. When you reach the door in the upper right corner, press Up and you'll face the next boss. Seeing as how it is very hot in a boiler room, it makes sense that the boss is a devilish-looking creature. Don't whip out the daggers quite yet. He is invulnerable to them when his pointy tail isn't sticking out. See, there are times when it is short and when it is long. You can hit him when it is long. Jump up to the top level and wait for him to come up there. Leap to the ledge across from you when he ascends to attack you. Then, when he is on your level, keep jumping back and forth between platforms and attack him with daggers when his tail is long. He will soon be done away with, and you will receive the hot coals from Granny. Don't use these except in cases where daggers are too weak to kill your opponent. River ----- Keep going upstairs in the mansion until you reach the floor where the ghost zooms above your head. Follow him to the left. The door to the river is open. Kill the bats and go all the way to the left. When you touch the sea monster potion, your head will change shape. This form allows you to spend more time in the water. Go in the crude door to the upper left to enter the river. You'll have to watch your oxygen level in the river. It steadily decreases as you spend time in the water. There are some odd controls for navigating your body in the water, but they do work quite well if you have a good grasp of them. To gain altitude in the water, hold Up. Your oxygen will be replenished when you rise out of the water onto a platform. Be extremely conservative with your daggers. Do not kill anything that you can go around. There is a test tube a little more than halfway through the level, so it is okay to use a few, but don't kill every fish in the river. Remove only that which gets in your way. To move safely through the areas with spikes on top and bottom, tap Up when you start to move down. Move in a zigzag pattern so you can stay in about the middle of the water. This is harder to do if there are fish in your path. When you reach the end, you will face a squid in the water. His only defense is to stretch his tentacles in your direction. The squid's weak spot is his pointy head. After he stretches out either of his tentacles, plunge into the water and fire daggers as fast as you can at close range. If you do this quickly enough, you will only have to go in the water twice. Lurch will give you some ice cubes when you beat the squid. These can be used to float across water for a short period. Icebox ------ Go to the first floor of the mansion and walk all the way to the right. There should be a staircase that you can walk up. Make your way up it and you will be in the kitchen. Several knives and sharp objects fly at you in here. Go all the way to the left and get the Frankenstein potion to give yourself some extra hits. When you have it, go inside the icebox. The only enemies in this area are some small birds that jump forward over and over, but even they can be a nuisance with all the ice around. Kill them as much as you can, and try not to backtrack. They reappear even after the slightest movement back into their territory. Go as far to the right as you can (marked by the test tube), and then start going left. Use the ice cubes to float across the freezing water. You will turn into a human ice cube if you fall in, and you don't want that. You can move very fast down the hill up ahead. In fact this is the only area in the game where you can do any actual running. Get momentum by walking down the slope, then hold the direction that moves you forward (i.e. either left or right). Make sure and jump over the two beds of spikes or you'll die. Move up and get the large heart if at all possible, then go to the right. You get to do more running here, except this time you will have to use your running ability to clear spike beds that are longer than your normal jumping range. Luckily, they are located just in front of some ramps. Get a running start on the slope, then when you come to the edge of the ramp, press A and you will make an astounding jump over the spikes. When you clear the last one, get the icicles before leaving. The icicles are best used as a backup for your daggers - that is, if you run out of daggers, switch to icicles. They are both basically almost the same weapon. Toy Box ------- Go to the highest floor in the house and all the way to the right. Although one would imagine that you would press Down to enter the toy box, once again you must press Up. When you fall into the toy box, take note of the brick column to the left. It leads to a secret bonus level. Without it, you have to go through three levels of the toy box, but by taking this secret area, you only have to play the third. Jump into the brick column and press Up to enter a bonus game where you can grab coins and moneybags for loads of points. To end the bonus game, either fall in the pit or wait out the song. The game ends when the song ends. Jump on the triangle object on the third level, but don't run into the spikes. He will launch you to the right the first time you jump on him and to the left the second time. Kill everyone else in your way up ahead with daggers, but don't jump or you'll eat spikes. Most of the blocks with faces are located above spikes. The ones with tight, frowning faces stay where they are, but the smiling ones with the evil eyes disappear when you stand on them. To avoid plummeting to your death, get off of them as soon as you get on. This is easier said than done in some areas. When you get to the big door, go in. The boss, a large teddy bear with a mace, can be easily defeated. Whip out your hot coals and bolt to the highest brick. When it is safe, land behind him and start rapidly firing hot coals at his butt. It doesn't take very long at all to kill him. Don't fight this boss without the hot coals. You can't beat him with just daggers, so if you do end up confronting him without the hot coals, I'd at least have the icicles too. Pugsley will give you his building blocks (which have no practical use whatsoever) when you free him from the bondage of his own toy box. Attic ----- Go directly left from the toy box and you will find an open door. This is the door to the attic. You can't enter this door until you rescue Wednesday, Granny, Lurch, and Pugsley. The attic is all about going up. If you need it, there is a flask to the left that completely refills whatever you might be low on. The bats in here come at you in swarms. It shouldn't be a surprise if you run out of daggers, but if you do, switch to icicles. You need to save your hot coals for the top of the attic. When you reach the top after fending off the multitudinous bats, you'll be on the roof of your house, where an incredible lightning storm is happening. Uncle Fester will trudge slowly onto the screen, and he's got an agenda to kill you. He will waddle at snail's pace toward you and blow tiny little fireballs that, although small, will kill you instantly. Switch to your hot coals and knock him back to the right edge of the screen. You need to keep him back so that the lightning will strike him. This is the only thing that damages him. Usually two coals at a time will bump him back far enough to be hit by the lightning. Five strikes will bring him to his senses, and he will tell you that Tully has Morticia held captive in the cellar. If you watched the movie, you'll remember that Tully was the bad guy trying to steal the Addams' fortune, but none of that's important. You need to go to the cellar. Cellar ------ The cellar is down the staircase all the way to the right on the first floor, even past the one that leads to the kitchen. Go down it. There is a flask to the left if you need it. Down here you will notice several kegs lined up against the wall. Walk to the right and mercilessly destroy those in your path until you see an open keg. This leads to Tully's hideout. You will not need to use any daggers in here because there are no actual enemies, just moving obstacles. Everything about this area is simple, so I will just offer tips that will help you get to the end of the level. ** When a plank with spikes on it falls from the ceiling, either stop dead in your tracks or move out of its way if you are under it. ** To get over the pits with three spikes in them the easiest, jump from the edge of wherever you are walking. ** Duck under the ball-and-chain traps before continuing. ** Stop in front of the guillotines so the blades don't cut you. ** I shouldn't have to tell you how to evade the saw blades. Use all of these tips and you can easily reach the final area without getting hit. Tully awaits you inside the final chamber. He thinks he is a master swordsman, but his pattern is incredibly easy to deduce. He will fire one dagger (yes, one) and then either jump or duck. You can usually count him to jump. His chances of ducking are about one in four, so go ahead and jump with him, tossing daggers all the while. You'll know you've defeated him when he falls stiff to the ground and appears to be constipated. The screen will fade out and Morticia will smother you with praise for saving the family. Congratulations on beating The Addams Family! Once you know where you're going and you play it several times, you can beat the game easily in about 30 minutes. There isn't much replay value at all unless you want to explore the woods and the beehive, and I'm not even gonna touch that. CREDITS AND COPYRIGHTS ====================== First of all, there are those I have to thank, for it is impossible for me to create these walkthroughs on my own. ** My dad who allows me to use his laptop as I please. ** My brother who let me use his batteries since I lost my rechargeable ones. ** Ocean (now Infogrames, I believe) for making this game. ** Whoever posts this, my seventh walkthrough. 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This walkthrough (C) July 15, 2001. If you break any of my rules, I will confront you with legal action in mind. Nobody wants to have to go to court just because of a silly little walkthrough that I wrote, but if it comes down to a legal fisticuffs, that's what it comes down to. Please don't do anything that I told you not to with this. It's mine, and you ought to be smart enough to recognize that. If you need to contact me at all for any reason, my e-mail address is . It will probably change soon, and if I decide to change my address, I will update all my walkthroughs and tell you about it. Aside from all that, have a good day, and good luck playing The Addams Family!