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76
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3.9
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Description

In Down in the Dumps you control one person at a time of a crazy alien family. They wanted to go on holidays to another planet, but after a crash with evil aliens, they crash-land in a dump on earth. Now you have to get your spaceship working again.

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The Press Says

PC Gameplay (Benelux) Oct, 1996 91 out of 100 91
Coming Soon Magazine Mar, 1997 90 out of 100 90
PC Games (Germany) Dec, 1996 85 out of 100 85
PC Player (Denmark) 1997 85 out of 100 85
PC Player (Germany) Dec, 1996 3 Stars3 Stars3 Stars3 Stars3 Stars 60
GameBoomers 2003 40 out of 100 40

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Trivia

The manual lists some funny trivia and statistics. Down in the dumps included:

  • 150 locations
  • 45 minutes of cinematic sequences
  • 3000 gags
  • 3 hours of 3D computer animation
  • 66 CD-ROMS of RAW DATA
  • 41 GIGABYTES of RAW DATA
  • 700 sounds
  • 150 000 SOURCE CODE LINES
  • 18 000 C language lines
  • 9 GIGABYTES of hard drive scratched
  • 12 PC motherboards burnt out
  • 7300 cups of coffee drunk
  • 5700 beers drunk
  • 6 dumps visited (Los Angeles, London, Paris, Bastia, New York, Florence)
  • 55 sleepless nights for each developer



This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by robotriot (3417) on Jan 02, 2000.
 

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