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 == Links ==
-<videoflash>sUOcEm4beD0</videoflash>
+<youtube>sUOcEm4beD0</youtube>
 * [http://web.archive.org/web/20021027174940/http://users.ilnk.com/acaudel/adam99.htm Adam 99 (Internet Archive)]

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 '''Release type:''' [[Unknown]]<br />
-'''Release date:''' May 10, [[1999]][[Category:1999|Adam 1999]]<br />
+'''Release date:''' November 17, [[1999]][[Category:1999|Adam 1999]]<br />
 '''Levels:''' 6<br />
 '''Author:''' [[Alan Caudel]]<br />

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 [[File:Adam99sprite2.gif|center]]
-Level two completely changes the format, trading the comparably large sprites and platformer design for a free-form superhero flight scenario with a flyspeck character trailed by a nice flame effect and a hard-to-detect, hard-to-avoid multi-block threat.
+Level two completely changes the format, trading the comparably large sprites and platformer design for a free-form superhero flight scenario with a flyspeck character, trailed by a nice flame effect, and a hard-to-detect, hard-to-avoid multi-block threat.
 The level is what ''[[Palladia]]'' might have been like, had it been further developed. You swoop around a cityscape, looking for lit windows, which represent people to save. As you rack up your counter, a large foe stomps around the level. He moves quickly, and Game-Maker isn't so good about showing monsters at the screen's edge, so in the event you see him coming it can be difficult to get out of the way.

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 Even on easy mode, Without extensive use of the save function level one may be all that you see. Death comes easily in ''Adam '99''. You start with 25 HP, which may be drained a bit by background threats (spikes, etc.) -- but one touch from a monster, and you die, bloodily.
 Complicating the issue is that the first level in particular is... glitchy, mostly by design. Bear clones don't necessarily stay on their platforms. There are lots of strange threats (exploding doorways, for instance) that lunge out of the first-gen NES style black background. And that black background -- sometimes it's solid when you don't expect it to be, and sometimes that makes it hard to get around.
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 However, the game is full of nice little touches -- the comic book sound effect that drifts away as Adam slings his guitar around; the animation when he launches Pikachu from a Pokéball.
 Level two completely changes the format, trading the comparably large sprites and platformer design for a free-form superhero flight scenario with a flyspeck character trailed by a nice flame effect and a hard-to-detect, hard-to-avoid multi-block threat.

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 Compared to the last few games, ''Adam '99'' is simple, short, and rather slapdash. There are three levels, the middle of which is probably the most interesting. There also is a difficulty select, which basically omits half the monsters; if you choose the easy setting, the game chastises you at the end of level two and advises you to play hard mode if you want to reach level three.
-Even on easy mode, Without extensive use of the save function level one may be all that you see. Death comes easily in ''Adam '99'. You start with 25 HP, which may be drained a bit by background threats (spikes, etc.) -- but one touch from a monster, and you die, bloodily.
+Even on easy mode, Without extensive use of the save function level one may be all that you see. Death comes easily in ''Adam '99''. You start with 25 HP, which may be drained a bit by background threats (spikes, etc.) -- but one touch from a monster, and you die, bloodily.
 [[File:Adam99sprite2.gif|center]]

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-{{Pending}}{{box
+{{box
 |header='''''Adam '99'''''
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 '''Website:''' [http://web.archive.org/web/20021027174940/http://users.ilnk.com/acaudel/adam99.htm Adam 99]<br />
 '''Related games:''' ''[[Adam's Birthday Game]]'', ''[[The Adam's Birthday Saga Continues]]'', ''[[Adam's B-Day 3: The Saga Continues]]'', ''[[Adam 97]]'', ''[[Adam 98]]'', ''[[Adam 2000]]''
-}}{{PendingHeader}}[[Category: Pending articles|Adam 1999]]
+}}By 1999, the last release of Game-Maker was five years in the past. A whole console generation had passed, and by Adam Tyner's birthday the Sega Dreamcast had arrived with the most successful launch of any game console in history. Oh, the birthday tradition continued -- but the decline had begun.
-Not as carefully designed, as lampshaded in the storyline.
+''Adam '99'' is the sixth of seven games (so far) in the ''[[Adam's Birthday]]'' series. Though adventuresome in a few ways, this chapter is not nearly as carefully designed as the last few -- as the storyline eagerly lampshades. Amongst the steady phase-out of MS-DOS, the continued march of technology, and the business that goes along with growing up, Game-Maker was no longer peak in anyone's mind.
-Pokeball; pikachu
+Other things to take its place: a new ''Star Wars'' movie, for the first time in a lifetime. The unexpected resurrection of Nintendo's ten-year-old Game Boy, thanks to the belated export of ''Pokémon''.
-Lots of black, invisible obstacles, preventing Adam from jumping or navigating as expected
+But, traditions die hard and this one has another couple of cycles in it.
-Lots of odd background threats: spikes, exploding doorways popping into view
+[[File:Adam99sprite.gif|center]]
-Bear clones don't necessarily stay on their platforms
+Compared to the last few games, ''Adam '99'' is simple, short, and rather slapdash. There are three levels, the middle of which is probably the most interesting. There also is a difficulty select, which basically omits half the monsters; if you choose the easy setting, the game chastises you at the end of level two and advises you to play hard mode if you want to reach level three.
-Black background calls to mind the creepiness of early NES games.
+Even on easy mode, Without extensive use of the save function level one may be all that you see. Death comes easily in ''Adam '99'. You start with 25 HP, which may be drained a bit by background threats (spikes, etc.) -- but one touch from a monster, and you die, bloodily.
-Game actually makes use of the crawl move to good effect, but if you stand up and glitch out of the level boundaries, the game punishes you with insta-death
+[[File:Adam99sprite2.gif|center]]
-Death comes very easily in general. You start with 25 HP, which can be drained a bit by background threats -- but one touch of a monster, and you die bloodily.
+Complicating the issue is that the first level in particular is... glitchy, mostly by design. Bear clones don't necessarily stay on their platforms. There are lots of strange threats (exploding doorways, for instance) that lunge out of the first-gen NES style black background. And that black background -- sometimes it's solid when you don't expect it to be, and sometimes that makes it hard to get around.
-Level two -- is this what ''[[Palladia]]'' would have been like? Superhero level where you soar around, trailing flames, "rescuing" people behind lit windows and avoiding insta-death from a huge, hard-to-avoid multi-block monster.
+The level also makes good use of the crawl move -- though if you stand up, you glitch out of the level boundaries, which the game punishes with insta-death.
-Choose difficulty; no level 3 if you choose easy.
+However, the game is full of nice little touches -- the comic book sound effect that drifts away as Adam slings his guitar around; the animation when he launches Pikachu from a Pokéball.
-Level 3 is a trip through that summer's ''Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace'', complete with cinematic vertical back-and-forth level structure and a large leap of faith at the end.
+Level two completely changes the format, trading the comparably large sprites and platformer design for a free-form superhero flight scenario with a flyspeck character trailed by a nice flame effect and a hard-to-detect, hard-to-avoid multi-block threat.
-As in ''[[Adam '97]]'', there is some extensive, if more consciously slapdash, use of .FLI animations, including footage from ''The Phantom Menace'' with Adam Tyner's face superimposed.
+The level is what ''[[Palladia]]'' might have been like, had it been further developed. You swoop around a cityscape, looking for lit windows, which represent people to save. As you rack up your counter, a large foe stomps around the level. He moves quickly, and Game-Maker isn't so good about showing monsters at the screen's edge, so in the event you see him coming it can be difficult to get out of the way.
-[[File:Adam99sprite.gif|center]]
+Level 3 returns to the format of the first level, but this time set in the world of ''Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace'' -- complete with a cinematic vertical level structure and a large leap of faith at the end. The most interesting thing here is the battle droids, which emerge from ''Rolling Thunder'' style doors and explode into two pieces when attacked.
-[[File:Adam99sprite2.gif|center]]
+As in ''[[Adam '97]]'', there is some extensive, if more consciously slapdash, use of .FLI animations, including footage from ''The Phantom Menace'' with Adam Tyner's face superimposed.
 {{SeriesNav|Adam '98|Adam '99|Adam 2000|[[Adam's Birthday series]]}}
 == Story ==
 Adam Tyner (on phone): "You're making my b-day game aren't you?
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 * [[Media:Adam99Map3.png|Level 3 map]] (66 kB)
+[[Category: Game-Maker games|Adam 1999]]
 [[Category: Alan Caudel|Adam 1999]]
 [[Category: Side-scrolling|Adam 1999]]

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	Choose difficulty; no level 3 if you choose easy.		Choose difficulty; no level 3 if you choose easy.
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		+	Level 3 is a trip through ''Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace'', complete with cinematic vertical back-and-forth level structure and a large leap of faith at the end.
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		+	As in ''[[Adam '97]]'', there is some extensive, if more consciously slapdash, use of .FLI animations, including footage from ''The Phantom Menace'' with Adam Tyner's face superimposed.

	[[File:Adam99sprite.gif\|center]]		[[File:Adam99sprite.gif\|center]]

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	Death comes very easily in general. You start with 25 HP, which can be drained a bit by background threats -- but one touch of a monster, and you die bloodily.		Death comes very easily in general. You start with 25 HP, which can be drained a bit by background threats -- but one touch of a monster, and you die bloodily.
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		+	Level two -- is this what ''[[Palladia]]'' would have been like? Superhero level where you soar around, trailing flames, "rescuing" people behind lit windows and avoiding insta-death from a huge, hard-to-avoid multi-block monster.
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		+	Choose difficulty; no level 3 if you choose easy.

	[[File:Adam99sprite.gif\|center]]		[[File:Adam99sprite.gif\|center]]