Cover of the game.
In 1993, Capstone Software and Manley & Associates, Inc. released, An American Tail: The Computer Adventures of Fievel and His Friends, also known as An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, for the Microsoft DOS platform. It was a point-and-click adventure game based on both of the first two An American Tail movies, despite its title. You take the role of Fievel Mousekewitz, who then moves between areas picking up and interacting with items and characters. Fievel can store an unlimited number of items in his inventory and must use these to solve various puzzles & mini-games in order to progress.
Plot
The plot follows the basic story of the movies, but non-linearly. It is stated that Fievel's hat is "endowed with special properties, that will help him in life". The intruduction tells how Fievel was swept overboard in a storm, and soon Fievel finds himself at Castle Garden where he meets Warren T. Rat. Fievel can either tell him he's looking for his family, ask about Warren's nose (his reply is that he injured it in a laundry-related accident), or say he's not allowed to talk to strangers. He offers Fievel some money, and if Fievel leaves he can go to another part of the market to play a mini-game involving card memorization. He also runs into a Warren look-alike, William B. Prat, who may actually be Warren in another disguise, and tries to lure Fievel with a promise to find his family.
Leaving the Castle Garden market brings Fievel to Hester Street, where he can hear a violin. If he talks to the the young homeless mouse on the street, he will suggest that Fievel find Tony Toponi. If Fievel agrees and walks down the alleyway, he'll find Tony hanging out with The Bullying Orphans. The orphans challenge Fievel to a mini-game before they reveal which of them is Tony. Tony will be Fievel's friend in exchange for something. If Fievel can find a storm drain and go down it he'll find the hideout of the Mott Street Maulers, and a skeleton key. When he takes the key, Warren will see Fievel and trap him in a cage. Tiger will rescue him, if he says the right things.
Notes
- Fievel's age is stated to be seven years old; the only time Fievel is ever given an age. This is also usually accepted by fans as the age of Fievel, at least in the first film, because it is the age Phillip Glasser was when he first voiced the character.
