The Addams Family Board Game (1974)

Ten years after the last Addams Family games came out, Milton Bradley returned to Cemetery Lane for more fun with the frightful family. But this release was based on the short-lived 1973 animated series, which is available on the Internet Archive!

 

Disclaimer: None of the photos in this post are mine. They were sourced from around the internet including BoardgameGeek.com and the And Everything Else Too blog.

  

From the instruction panel:

This weird family does everything different than most folks and this game follow that concept. The object of this game is to lose, not win, for if you win you lose and it's fun either way.

  

The game is a straightforward spin and move with the exception that you don't want to be the first to the end. If you are, you lose!

 

There are a few spaces on the board with instructions that can help or hinder you. If you're "lucky" you might slip on some rocks back to Start, fall down a waterfall, or have Thing lend a hand (sorry, not sorry) to a shortcut back to the beginning. If you land on another player, you get to move them ahead three spaces. 

 

The player movers that come with the game are the average colored pawns like you'd find in Sorry. It was probably cost prohibitive but it'd be fun to have cardboard standees of the family members.  

 

 The 1964 Ideal game had art based on the TV versions of the family. Since the animated series drew (again, not sorry) inspiration from the original Addams comics, that's what we get here along with their animal companions Ali the alligator, Ocho the octopus and Mr. V the vulture. 

 

Fun fact: a 10 year old Jodie Foster supplied the voice for Pugsley in this series!

 

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