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Cuphead?
Never played it but the art style looked similar to what I saw in screenshots. 

Chrille got it!
Yeah of course it is Captain Goodnight.
It's a pity this game was kind of obscure, considering how diverse its gameplay was. Maybe being too hard (I never beat it) and not ported to other systems(I think) are part of the reasons few people heard of it.

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No. I think it's not based on any pre-existing franchise, I think at least.
It's midnight here so I may post another shot tomorrow.
(Wasn't quite active in the past few days but my home system always shut down after a few minutes of activities, probably due to overheating in the hot summer. I've just cleaned the dust in the internal fans(especially the CPU one) and it seems to do the trick.)

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Here it is.
[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/9wuysFh.png[/imgzoom]

Nope

Considering it's an Apple ][ games in the 80s, yes.

This is not just a shooter.

[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/AFgqsNP.png[/imgzoom]
I think this is a bit obscure but I used to play it a lot and it's an insanely difficult game!

Heh I was too lazy to look up the name again, so I think josiah got this one!

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Hmmm no idea, but judging from the (fantasy?) setting it may be one of those text adventures Roberta Williams made before making KQ1.
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Spoiler

Ah well. Indeed it is. It is The Wizard and the Princess, the second game in the Hi-Res Adventure series(the first being Mystery House). Checking for games created by Roberta Williams before KQ1 in mobygames gave the answer immediately. I hope this is not cheating.

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Cat's Eyes?

Idgi.

Just a lame joke, as the character looks like a mutated Simpsons character, so X-Men + Simpsons...

X-Simpsons?

Hehe... that was me

And you also posted another game which was yet to appear quite recently.

So, it's been done before, and I don't understand why people suddenly started complaining about guessing games not yet released.

The problem though, is that, this is not a general adventure game community, but in fact the AGS community, so it's just natural to allow non-adventure games made with AGS in competitions. If we allow "other" tools in creating adventure games we should allow also engines other than MonoAGS and XAGE, like Godot, etc., this beats the purpose of here being the AGS community. However, since there may not be further "official" successors of AGS (apart from AGS4), IMO MonoAGS and XAGE could be considered acceptable since they inherit a number of stuff from the original AGS and are in some way spiritual sucessors of AGS, so they're not that foreign and may not count as "other" tools.

Actually in Japanese DRY-MON is pronounced DO-RA-I-MO-N, which is only one character different from the original name, and is a VERY common parody of the subject...

...subject... anyway, back to subject! Zach, is Cl...'s answer correct?

It's not just in Japan. Doraemon is SERIOUS BUSINESS here.

No one would not know what Doraemon is here, but I think the hard part is which game it is, as there are a ton of them.

The only Aersomith game I knew was Revolution X (I actually have the PC version picked up from the bargain bin).
I was curious and asked Great G the question "Aersomith games" and immediately I got Rev X and this game(now I know this game but I cheated so, nevermind). Looks interesting.

No wonder...
These dithering photos were what Dynamix (in)famously known for, especially during the EGA and early VGA times.
I've looked for Ghostbusters games in mobygames before making my last comment, and did find Ghostbusters II by the same people(released in the same year even). Even though the horrible dithered photos looked quite close and that the uniforms looked alike I spoke in my conscious that this was not a Ghosterbuster game, and it wasn't, though had some close relations(same style, made by the same people) that I was not aware of.

I don't know, but the uniforms remind me of Ghostbusters.