Tintin in Tibet (video game)

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Tintin in Tibet
Tintin in Tibet PC game.png
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Developer(s) Infogrames Multimedia
(SNES, GEN)
Bit Managers
(Game Boy, Game Gear, GBC)
East Point Software (PC)
Publisher(s) Infogrames Multimedia
Designer(s) Xavier Schon
Composer(s) Fabrice Bouillon-LaForest
Emmanuel Régis (SNES, GEN)
Alberto Jose González
(Game Boy, Game Gear, GBC)
Platform(s) Windows, Super NES, Mega Drive, Game Gear, Game Boy, GBC
Release1995, 1996
Genre(s) Third-person adventure
Mode(s) Single player

Tintin in Tibet is a video game based on the storyline of the same title from the series The Adventures of Tintin , the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was one of a series of two games released, the other being Prisoners of the Sun . It was released for the Super NES, Game Boy, Game Gear and the Mega Drive by the late 1995, followed by a version for PC (MS-DOS and Windows 95) in 1996 and Game Boy Color in 2001.

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Mean Machines Sega gave the game a 70/100, praising the games visual looks, although stating "The actual gameplay, roving the left -right level from point to point, becomes repetitive". [1] Total! gave the game a 79 out of 100, describing the game as being difficult and having "odd gameplay flaws", although also writing that the game "manages to display most of the traits of a good, solid platformer". [2]

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