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Family Dog

Based on a short-lived animated prime-time television series created by Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton, you play as the title dog through three levels. The young boy in your family likes to target you for his…

1 February 1992

Family Dog is an adventure, released 1 February 1992 on Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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What Family Dog is

Family Dog was released in 1992. It is available on Super Nintendo Entertainment System only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Based on a short-lived animated prime-time television series created by Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton, you play as the title dog through three levels. The young boy in your family likes to target you for his mischief. He sets up volleys of tennis balls and lets loose a vacuum cleaner on you which you must avoid. The cat and other obstacles await you in your house while you collect bones for power. After all the trouble you cause in the home, you are sent to Obedience School and you have to run a gauntlet of gung-ho instructors and ferocious Dobermans in the heavily-guarded compound. If successful at escaping, you reach a forest filled with wild animals. You can use flips, spins and barks…
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How it plays

Its themes are action and comedy.

What it launched against

Family Dog launched on 1 February 1992, within three weeks of X-Men, Baseball Stars 2 and Romancing SaGa.

Released around the same time: X-Men, Baseball Stars 2, Romancing SaGa.

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When did Family Dog come out?
Family Dog was released on 1 February 1992 for Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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