Released back in the early 90s on the 8-bit NES, Fester's Quest has you playing in as the eponymous Addams Family character fighting off an alien invasion. And why not.

Essentially it's a top down exploration/rpg-style game in the style of the old Zelda games, albeit with the primary focus on simple arcade blasting action. The visuals aren't bad for the time, thought the gameplay is linear and often frustratingly difficult. Enemies respawn constantly whenever you kill them, which wouldnt be so bad were it not for the fact that many of your gun 'upgrades' down work properly. You start out with a straightforward blaster that fires in a line straight ahead, which works fine, but many of the subsequent weapons you get fire in various patterns that don't work in confined spaces, hitting the walls instead and leaving you almost completely defenceless. You can collect and use weapons like dynamite to help you out, but the game is still far more difficult than it needs to be (although I suppose that was par for the course for an awful lot of NES games).

There are also some rather interesting first person parts to the game when you enter buildings, more pseudo-3d corridor-slideshows than anything else really and devoid of monsters or items, but still pretty impressive (if almost completely pointless). The game has a reputation for being something of a clunker, but there are far far worse games of its' type out there. Special mention goes to the game cover art too, which is fantastic!