Prisoners of the Sun (video game)

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Prisoners of the Sun
CD box art
Developer(s)	Infogrames Multimedia (SNES) Bit Managers (Game Boy, GBC) East Point Software (PC)
Publisher(s)	Infogrames Multimedia
Designer(s)	Vannara Ty
Composer(s)	Fabrice Bouillon-LaForest Emmanuel Régis (SNES) Alberto Jose González (Game Boy, GBC)
Platform(s)	Windows, MS-DOS, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color
Release	SNES: EU: February 9, 1997 Game Boy Color: EU: September 8, 2000
Genre(s)	Third-person adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

Prisoners of the Sun is a video game based on The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun from the series The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was released for the SNES, Windows, Game Boy by late 1997 and for the Game Boy Color in 2000.^[1]

Gameplay

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Prisoners of the Sun is a Platform game. The player controls the character Tintin around obstacles and through challenges to complete the various levels of the game. The gameplay and animation of this game is similar to Infogrames' previous release, Tintin in Tibet, which was released in 1995.

Release

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It was released in 1997 for PC, SNES and Game Boy and later re-released in 2000 for Game Boy Color.^[1]

References

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^ ^a ^b "Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun". GameFAQs.com. Archived from the original on 26 December 2010. Retrieved 8 February 2015.

External links

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Prisoners of the Sun at Tintinologist.org

The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé

The Adventures
of Tintin

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1930)
Tintin in the Congo (1931)
Tintin in America (1932)
Cigars of the Pharaoh (1934)
The Blue Lotus (1936)
The Broken Ear (1937)
The Black Island (1938)
King Ottokar's Sceptre (1939)
The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941)
The Shooting Star (1942)
The Secret of the Unicorn (1943)
Red Rackham's Treasure (1944)
The Seven Crystal Balls (1948)
Prisoners of the Sun (1949)
Land of Black Gold (1950)
Destination Moon (1953)
Explorers on the Moon (1954)
The Calculus Affair (1956)
The Red Sea Sharks (1958)
Tintin in Tibet (1960)
The Castafiore Emerald (1963)
Flight 714 to Sydney (1968)
Tintin and the Picaros (1976)
Tintin and Alph-Art (1986, unfinished)
Le Thermozéro (unfinished, unpublished)

Characters

Settings

Feature films

Animated	The Crab with the Golden Claws (1947) Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (1969) Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972) The Adventures of Tintin (2011) soundtrack
Live-action	Tintin and the Golden Fleece (1961) Tintin and the Blue Oranges (1964)