Fester's Quest

• Developer — Sunsoft • Publisher — Sunsoft • Composer — Naoki Kodaka • Genre — Run and gun, adventure • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayChoice-10

One night, a UFO arrives in the city where the Addams Family lives and begins beaming up the residents. However, Grandmama casts a spell on herself and the other family members to protect them, having predicted the invasion. Patriarch Gomez Addams guards the family mansion while the others scatter throughout the city, and Uncle Fester sets out to save the townspeople from the aliens.

Fester's Quest is a shoot 'em up game that takes place in three overhead areas (the streets, the sewers, and the UFO platform) and six buildings where the hallways are viewed from a 3D perspective. Along the way, Fester encounters other members of the Addams Family in seven houses (plus the Addams mansion via a secret path through the trees behind the mansion): Thing (three times), Wednesday, Gomez, Morticia, Grandmama, and Pugsley, all of whom help him by giving him different weapons and items. Use of one particular item, the Noose, will summon Lurch to destroy all enemies on the screen. Fester must travel through the city sewers to reach areas that are otherwise inaccessible due to aboveground obstacles. He may enter certain buildings, which transform the game from its standard overhead view into a 3D mode of play akin to a dungeon crawl. Five of these buildings each house an enormous Alien Boss character, which upon defeat will supply Fester with a puzzle piece and a picture of the alien's UFO, and refill all of his items. After defeating a boss, Fester will leave the building and be unable to backtrack through it to previously visited areas. Once all five bosses are defeated, Fester must board the UFO and defeat one last boss in order to stave off the invasion. The North American release has a feature that makes Fester's bullets collide with walls and objects, making it more difficult to hit enemies compared to the European release.