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 == Links ==
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 * [https://youtu.be/XJ2OSiPacNQ Older clip] (YouTube)

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 '''Author:''' [[Alan Caudel]]<br />
 '''Related games:''' ''[[Adam's Birthday Game]]'', ''[[The Adam's Birthday Saga Continues]]'', ''[[Adam's B-Day 3: The Saga Continues]]'', ''[[Adam 98]]'',  ''[[Adam 99]]'',  ''[[Adam 2000]]''
-}}The fourth game in the Adam's Birthday series, ''Adam '97'' is probably the pinnacle. The games reach a height of ambition and creativity here, which combined with a confidence of design result in one of the better platformers designed with Game-Maker.
+}}The fifth game in the Adam's Birthday series, ''Adam '97'' is probably the pinnacle. The games reach a height of ambition and creativity here, which combined with a confidence of design result in one of the better platformers designed with Game-Maker.
 The first thing to hit you is the stylization; here Alan Caudel has assembled a world with its own fairly coherent visual language that does its darnedest to transcend Game-Maker's limitations. The first, rather gentle, level is the best example of this: a pastoral scene of green and blue, with rolling hillocks and stone structures. As will become common, the grass patterns all slowly animate, creating some unavoidable artifacts along the screen edges and upon scrolling.
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 But, there are still interesting times to come...
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+{{SeriesNav|Adam '96|Adam '97|Adam '98|[[Adam's Birthday series]]}}
 == Story ==

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 Among other quirks, ''Adam '97'' marks the start of the ultraviolent death animations that become a staple of the ''Adam's Birthday'' series. Adam's head explodes, and monster sprites of viscera cascade outwards. This is just one of several experiments with monster birthing, including the word bubble in Adam's idle sequence, urging the player to "Hurry Up!" and some clever particle and stream effects in moves like the flame jump and laser cannon.
-The levels too exhibit some interesting effects, like the huge bouncing tomatoes in level two (giving a rare use to Adam's duck maneuver), a clever "invisible" maze in level five betrayed using slightly different vibrations in jiggling background tiles, and the virtuosic use of monster tiles in level six to create a ''Thunder Blade'' styled single-screen parallax effect while the player steers the Millennium Falcon through gaps in oncoming columns on its way to destroy the enormous photographic head of Adam Tyner.
+The levels too exhibit some interesting effects, like the huge bouncing tomatoes in level two (giving a rare use to Adam's duck maneuver), a clever "invisible" maze in level five betrayed using slightly different vibrations in jiggling background tiles, and the virtuosic use of monster tiles in level six to create a ''Thunder Blade'' styled single-screen parallax effect while the player steers the Millennium Falcon through gaps in oncoming columns (The ''Star Wars'' trilogy was remastered and re-released this year) on its way to destroy the enormous photographic head of Adam Tyner.
 This is just one of several clever .FLI animations that, given the available tools in 1997, must have taken some real time and effort to patch together. Another real winner, and competitor for the most hilarious moment in any Game-Maker game, comes when the player misses that absurd jump in level five, and falls into a blackened void... only to near-seamlessly transition to Pythonesque animation of Adam tumblimg into the mouth of a photographic [[Bear Fun Show|Mr. Bear]].

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 '''Author:''' [[Alan Caudel]]<br />
 '''Related games:''' ''[[Adam's Birthday Game]]'', ''[[The Adam's Birthday Saga Continues]]'', ''[[Adam's B-Day 3: The Saga Continues]]'', ''[[Adam 98]]'',  ''[[Adam 99]]'',  ''[[Adam 2000]]''
-}}{{PendingHeader}}[[Category: Pending articles|Adam 1997]]
+}}The fourth game in the Adam's Birthday series, ''Adam '97'' is probably the pinnacle. The games reach a height of ambition and creativity here, which combined with a confidence of design result in one of the better platformers designed with Game-Maker.
 The first thing to hit you is the stylization; here Alan Caudel has assembled a world with its own fairly coherent visual language that does its darnedest to transcend Game-Maker's limitations. The first, rather gentle, level is the best example of this: a pastoral scene of green and blue, with rolling hillocks and stone structures. As will become common, the grass patterns all slowly animate, creating some unavoidable artifacts along the screen edges and upon scrolling.
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 The levels too exhibit some interesting effects, like the huge bouncing tomatoes in level two (giving a rare use to Adam's duck maneuver), a clever "invisible" maze in level five betrayed using slightly different vibrations in jiggling background tiles, and the virtuosic use of monster tiles in level six to create a ''Thunder Blade'' styled single-screen parallax effect while the player steers the Millennium Falcon through gaps in oncoming columns on its way to destroy the enormous photographic head of Adam Tyner.
-This is just one of several clever .FLI animations that, given the available tools in 1997, must have taken some real time and effort to patch together. Another real winner, and competitor for the most hilarious moment in any Game-Maker game, comes when the player misses that
+This is just one of several clever .FLI animations that, given the available tools in 1997, must have taken some real time and effort to patch together. Another real winner, and competitor for the most hilarious moment in any Game-Maker game, comes when the player misses that absurd jump in level five, and falls into a blackened void... only to near-seamlessly transition to Pythonesque animation of Adam tumblimg into the mouth of a photographic [[Bear Fun Show|Mr. Bear]].
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 As to that violence, ''Adam '97'' offers the player a wide and varied selection of attacks and special moves. Adam starts with a standard double-bullet projectile, then gradually finds new items that unlock new abilities. Generally each move has a different, unique use -- the rockets and bombs less so, but mostly the game shows thought as to their application and introduction. The items tend to make tricky tasks easier, and the game makes a point of establishing these tasks to encourage the items' use; without the shield item, just try crawling through the Mr. Dot level.
-Although the levels tend to be designed around Adam's move set, this is not always a benevolent thing. Given the strangeness of some of Adam's animations, e.g. his eccentric jump physics (exploit to your own peril in level two) and his knock-back effect upon injury, later levels can take a glee in making life difficult for the player. It's these scenarios, like the unreasonable leap of faith in level five or the knock-back fury of the Mr. Dot generators in level four, where Adam's special moves come into play.
+Although the levels tend to be designed around Adam's move set, this is not always a benevolent thing. Given the strangeness of some of Adam's animations, e.g. his eccentric jump physics (exploit to your own peril in level two) and his knock-back effect upon injury, later levels can take a glee in making life difficult for the player. It's these scenarios, like the unreasonable leap of faith in level five or the knock-back fury of the Mr. Dot generators in level four, where the special moves come into play.
-Level 3 -- bulwarking with a bunch of hearts before dunking into a flue of lava. Probably will die no matter what, but move to the next level partway through death animation. So, you start off level four by dying again.
+At times the sadism goes beyond the player's control, as in level three. Here the player is thrust down a wind tunnel, then plunged into a flue of lava. The best one can do is scramble to collect as many hearts as possible while sliding down the corridor, and hope the fortification is enough for Adam to last most of the way down the flue. Adam will die, regardless; the question is where it happens. If he can last long enough, his death animation will be interrupted by a level transition and he will die at the start of level four. Otherwise, he will die on his way down the flue -- and, back to the start we go. Let's hope we get enough hearts this time.
-Start of the ultraviolent death animations
+Among other quirks, ''Adam '97'' marks the start of the ultraviolent death animations that become a staple of the ''Adam's Birthday'' series. Adam's head explodes, and monster sprites of viscera cascade outwards. This is just one of several experiments with monster birthing, including the word bubble in Adam's idle sequence, urging the player to "Hurry Up!" and some clever particle and stream effects in moves like the flame jump and laser cannon.
-Adam's "Hurry Up!" animation with word bubble monster.
+The levels too exhibit some interesting effects, like the huge bouncing tomatoes in level two (giving a rare use to Adam's duck maneuver), a clever "invisible" maze in level five betrayed using slightly different vibrations in jiggling background tiles, and the virtuosic use of monster tiles in level six to create a ''Thunder Blade'' styled single-screen parallax effect while the player steers the Millennium Falcon through gaps in oncoming columns on its way to destroy the enormous photographic head of Adam Tyner.
-As with Mr. Dot, several call-backs to monsters and threats from earlier games.
+This is just one of several clever .FLI animations that, given the available tools in 1997, must have taken some real time and effort to patch together. Another real winner, and competitor for the most hilarious moment in any Game-Maker game, comes when the player misses that
 the FLI animations...
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 Level five -- falling into that pit triggers the Monty Python style animation of Adam falling into dog's mouth.
-Level six -- using cool sprite parallax effects to create a sense of depth, as in Thunder Blade.
+As with Mr. Dot, several call-backs to monsters and threats from earlier games.
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 Though the levels tend to be designed around Adam's move set...
 Knock-back injuries
-Stsrt of the ultraviolent death animations
+Level four with the mr. dot generators is kind of ridiculous, and the injured animation that sends Adam bouncing backward doesn't help, but the shield makes it feasible.
-Level 3 -- bulwarking with a bunch of hearts before dunking into a flue of lava. Probably will die no matter what, but move to the next level partway through death animation. So, you start off level four by dying again.
+Eccentric jump physics -- especially straight up.
 Arcing Flame jump effect.
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 Totally unfair jump, especially given that bounce-back injury animation.
 Adam's "Hurry Up!" animation with word bubble monster.

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 [[File:Adam97Shot.gif|thumb|320px|Beware the innocuous in ''Adam '97''.]]
-As to that violence, ''Adam '97'' offers the player a wide and varied selection of attacks and special moves. Adam starts with a standard double-bullet projectile, then gradually finds new items that unlock new abilities. Generally each move has a different, unique use -- the rockets and bombs less so, but mostly the game shows thought as to their application and introduction. The items tend to make tricky tasks easier, and the game makes a point of establishing these tasks to encourage the items' use; without the shield item, just try crawling through the Mr, Dot level.
+As to that violence, ''Adam '97'' offers the player a wide and varied selection of attacks and special moves. Adam starts with a standard double-bullet projectile, then gradually finds new items that unlock new abilities. Generally each move has a different, unique use -- the rockets and bombs less so, but mostly the game shows thought as to their application and introduction. The items tend to make tricky tasks easier, and the game makes a point of establishing these tasks to encourage the items' use; without the shield item, just try crawling through the Mr. Dot level.
 Though the levels tend to be designed around Adam's move set...