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Down in the Dumps

An Adventure game developed for DOS and Windows in 1996 by the now defunct French Haiku Studios and published by Philips Media. One year later there was a release for the Apple Macintosh.

31 December 1996

Down in the Dumps is an adventure developed by haiku studios, released 31 December 1996 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Down in the Dumps is

Down in the Dumps is an adventure game developed by haiku studios and released in 1996. It was published by Philips Media. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

An Adventure game developed for DOS and Windows in 1996 by the now defunct French Haiku Studios and published by Philips Media. One year later there was a release for the Apple Macintosh.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Down in the Dumps launched on 31 December 1996, within three weeks of Mario Kart 64, Wild Arms, Mega Man 8 and Money Puzzle Exchanger.

Released around the same time: Mario Kart 64, Wild Arms, Mega Man 8, Money Puzzle Exchanger.

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When did Down in the Dumps come out?
Down in the Dumps was released on 31 December 1996 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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