The Addams Family (NES)

Ta da da DUN...*snap snap*

Hidden Text
This game shares the same music driver library that many other NES Ocean Software games used. As a result, there is a hidden version and copyright string: MUSIC DRIVER V1.0 (C)JONATHAN DUNN & OCEAN SOFTWARE

Infinite Lives
Press A, B, B, A, Left, Right, Left, Right at the title screen. The "c" letter will appear in the upper left corner of the screen.

Early Gomez sprites


Found among the subscreen/item graphics, a collection of Gomez sprites which were left over from an earlier version of the game.



Pictures of this version were published in Nintendo Power volume 28, page 93.

Character Bodies


The inventory screen has body tiles of all Addams Family members (barring Lurch), but only their heads are used in the final version.

Coin


The coin (seen in the above scan) can still be found in the level tilesets, unused.

Crosses


As are the crosses. The crosses are still present in The Garden's layout, but the tiles have been blacked out. The complete cross tiles can, however, still be found in other copies of the graveyard tilseset within the game data. In addition, the un-blanked crosses, as well as many other tiles from this game, can be found between graphics in Ferrari: Grand Prix Challenge.

This patch will restore the crosses to the graveyard:

Old Portraits


Older versions of character portraits can be found in various tilesets.



These portraits also show up in early versions of the game. The only one used is the Cousin It picture.

Graphics Leftovers
As is common with games by Ocean and System 3, most of the graphics banks were written over the top of the graphics banks of other Ocean games, for some strange reason. This game contains part of the title screen graphics for Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 (NES, Europe).



Another graphics block's origin is unknown, but this unused block can be found in two other Ocean games: Cool World and Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III (NES).



Languages
The European version has a language option for English, French, and German.



HUD
The message box was expanded to accommodate the different languages.

Wrench
The word "wrench" was changed to "spanner" in the European version, and the button text was moved up a bit.