Mortadelo y Filemón: El Sulfato Atómico

Did You Know?

• The player controls the two agents separately to solve puzzles, in a manner compared to Maniac Mansion.
• The game follows secret agents Mort and Phil attempting to steal a chemical weapon from the Republic of Tirania.

Legacy

The Mort & Phil adventure game series began with El Sulfato Atómico. Its 1999 follow-up, Mortadelo y Filemón: La Máquina Meteoroloca, was handled by Vega Creaciones Multimedia instead of Alcachofa, and Zeta Multimedia published it. That game drew from the comic El Estropicio Meteorológico and had Francisco Ibáñez's involvement. Zeta promoted it as a key Christmas 1999 release. Carlos Burgos of PC Manía praised it as excellent and truer to Ibáñez’s work than El Sulfato Atómico, though PC Actual found it somewhat dull. Vega shut down in early 2000, and Alcachofa took over the remaining Mort & Phil titles. This series became Alcachofa’s most famous output before Murder in the Abbey (2008). Micromanía noted these games raised Alcachofa’s profile, and Julio Gómez of Vandal observed in 2008 that the studio’s fate became tied to El Sulfato Atómico. Alcachofa’s second game, Mortadelo y Filemón: Una Aventura de Cine, arrived in 2000 as two separately sold parts. Combining them unlocks a third episode and adds cooperative play for two people locally or online. La Sexta Secta followed in 2001, also split into two games that merge into a complete title. The final entry, La Banda de Corvino, came out in 2003 with the same two-episode format. In 2019, Erbe Software brought the game to Steam along with other Alcachofa Mort & Phil titles.