Prisoners of the Sun is a video game based on The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun from the series The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

It was released for the SNES, Windows, Game Boy by late 1997 and for the Game Boy Color in 2000.

[1] Prisoners of the Sun is a Platform game.

The player controls the character Tintin around obstacles and through challenges to complete the various levels of the game.

The gameplay and animation of this game is similar to Infogrames' previous release, Tintin in Tibet, which was released in 1995.