Snap Thing's fingers: Press L + R during the opening sequence
to snap Thing's fingers.
Start with power-up: Watch the game in demonstration mode. Press Start
when Gomez takes an item to begin the game with the same item.
Secret power-up room: At the start of the game, enter the hall of stairs
and move to the left. Press Up after passing the last door
on the left to enter a secret door that leads to Pugsley's Den.
Go through the second secret door to reach a hidden power-up room
behind the stairs.
99 lives: Select the "Password" option at the start
menu. Enter "1" until the game lets you in. Your remaining
lives will display as "0". Once you die, you will have
99 lives.
Information in this section was contributed by Crazysnake18.
Extra lives: Move to the left edge of the screen instead of going
through one of the two doors at the "Continue/Quit"
screen that appears when a game is over. You will enter a secret
room that contains four extra lives. To immediately display the
"Continue/Quit" Screen, press Start during game
play, highlight the quit option and press Select.
During game play, find the bear's mouth in the lower part of the
portrait gallery that is not a source for the small bears. Walk
into this mouth to find extra lives.
Hint: Basement passage: Enter the music room and wait for the music to end.
The passage to the basement will now be accessible.
Hint: Hidden items: Jump into the bottomless pits to find extra items.
Password
Effect
11111
100 lives
&#KKN
Start
99966
Start with 3 hearts
V1913
After Pugsley
B&J15
After Grandma
BD#K4
After Wednesday
BL91B
After Fester
BZXYC
5 Hearts, Pugsley rescued
BDSXY
72 Lives, Granny rescued
BLKX8
72 Lives, 5 Hearts, only Morticia missing
B&1&B
80 Lives, 5 Hearts, Granny and Pugsley rescued
71117
100 Lives, 3 Hearts, Sword
W111W
100 Lives, 4 Hearts, Sword
21112
100 Lives, 5 Hearts, Sword
BL113
100 Lives, 5 Hearts, everyone but Morticia rescued
BLS&P
Final door open
Information in this section was contributed by Nick Larsen.
Hint: Using the password system: The game may be started with a new number of lives,
different weapons, or other areas by changing the password. The
characters in positions three and four control the number of lives,
with position three being the "ones" digit and four
the "tens" digit. Positions one and two control which
areas have been completed and which weapon, if any, is present.
Position five is the "check" that verifies that a password
is valid. It should be changed by trial and error until the password
is accepted.
Use the following number to character conversion, change positions
three and four of a password to the desired number of lives. Note
that the lives appear in reverse in the password; enter the characters
for "07" for seventy lives.
Keep entering the first four positions of an altered password
with a different fifth position until it works. Passwords with
99 lives will not work. However, a valid 100 lives password may
be created by entering "11" and keep changing the check
position until it works.
Information in this section was contributed by Jesse Smith.
