Review:
I've read reviews on The Addams Family and they all have torn this game apart. I know that movie-based video games normally are made to cash in off the popularity of the movie.  More often than not, programming is usually rushed and the result is a poorly designed and virtually unplayable game (i.e. Wayne's World for the SNES, E.T. for the Atari 2600, Back to the Future for the NES, The Karate Kid for the NES, The Blues Brothers for the SNES, Street Fighter-The Movie-The Game for the Playstation, uh...you get the idea). The Addams Family can easily be grouped with the worst movie-based video games ever. At the inanimate title screen you are treated to a real audio track of the 1950s Addams Family theme song. Unfortunately, this is the best part of the game. When you hit Run you are taken to a digitized photo of Tully Alford, the Addams Family attorney. There is voice acting for about 3 or 4 minutes (I smoked an entire cigarette) whilst you stare at this single photo. Now the torture starts! It's a side scroller and you move back and forth while jumping and shooting a yellow star thing out of your umbrella. The control response is horrendous and it sometimes takes a half of a second to jump when you want to. You are bombarded with spiders, Gomez's golf skills, bats, zombies, grim reapers, and everything else on the screen that hates you and wants you to die. I played this for 20 minutes before I became fed up with the controls and unbelievable difficulty level. 

The enemies re-spawn constantly and it isn't uncommon for 10-15 enemies to be swarming you (and this is the 1st level!).  For instance, if a bat attacks you it just doesn't fly away; it stays on your character until you can somehow shake it off...with the horribly, unforgiving controls, of course.  Once inside the mansion, you're supposed to clear the objectives in the rooms, some of which are completely unclear. This CD title is about one of the worst games I've ever played in my life. Unless you are frothing-at-the-mouth obsessed with collecting Addams Family stuff, stay far, far away from this awful movie-based CD game.

Graphics - 2/10

Boring and simple. This game suffocates and restricts the TG-CD's graphics capabilities during gameplay.

Sound - 3/10

The music very good. The sound effects are bland. The only reason sound deserves a 3 is because it included voice acting and the original Addams Family theme song.

Control - 1/10

It can't get much worse here, folks.

Fun - 1/10

Can I use negative numbers here, OD?

Overall - 2/10

I graciously bumped up the score from a 1 to a 2 because the programmers used an authentic theme song track. Did I mention the title screen was the best part of the game?