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Horror Games

Started by Xyphoe, 05:05, 23 September 10

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Xyphoe

Following on from Mark's 'gory games' topic (http://cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php/topic,195.0.html), I'm trying to track down and get as many horror games, or at least horror themed on the Amstrad!

Here's the list I've come up with so far ... what am I missing out?
Cheers!

Friday 13th
Werewolves Of London
Zombi
Infernal Runner
Dracula / Frankenstein
Chiller
Bride Of Frankenstein aka Frankenstein Jnr
Night Hunter
Aliens
Ghosts N Goblins
Ghoules N Ghosts
Predator I / II
Altered Beast
Nightbreed
The Astonishing Adventures Of Mr. Weems And The She Vampires
Ghostbusters I / II / Real Ghostbusters
Ghost Hunters
Roland On The Ropes
Oh Mummy
Rocky Horrow Picture Show
Orion Prime
Arachnophobia
Space Gun
The Addams Family
Jaws
Nosferatu The Vampyre
Barbarian
Cauldron I / II / III
Gremlins I / II

*edit* added some more, some a bit tenuous tho!

mr_lou

If you think "Oh Mummy" is a horror game, then maybe you also think "Wriggler" (by Romantic Robot I think) is.
At least there are creepy spiders and other bugs in it.  :)

Gryzor

Oh Mummy? Roland gory? Oh come on...

arnoldemu

Quote from: Gryzor on 09:43, 23 September 10
Oh Mummy? Roland gory? Oh come on...
They contain ghosts and Egyption mummies..

Ok, they are not scary but they could be thought of as horror related.

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#4
Quote from: Xyphoe on 05:05, 23 September 10
Following on from Mark's 'gory games' topic (http://cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php/topic,195.0.html), I'm trying to track down and get as many horror games, or at least horror themed on the Amstrad!

Here's the list I've come up with so far ... what am I missing out?
Cheers!

Friday 13th
Werewolves Of London
Zombi
Infernal Runner
Dracula / Frankenstein
Chiller
Bride Of Frankenstein aka Frankenstein Jnr
Night Hunter
Aliens
Ghosts N Goblins
Ghoules N Ghosts
Predator I / II
Altered Beast
Nightbreed
The Astonishing Adventures Of Mr. Weems And The She Vampires
Ghostbusters I / II / Real Ghostbusters
Ghost Hunters
Roland On The Ropes
Oh Mummy
Rocky Horrow Picture Show
Orion Prime
Arachnophobia
Space Gun
The Addams Family
Jaws
Nosferatu The Vampyre
Barbarian
Cauldron I / II / III
Gremlins I / II



Maybe mindfighter ie the apoloctypic dog corpses etc!!

But definetely Jack the ripper crl

but top gun on the 464 was horriffic ,, no bloody sound man!

MacDeath

#5
If I remember correctly, Zombi had a sequel : Hurlement... no ?


Also splatter House...erh...oops...
Moonstone...erh... re-oops...


The Munsters perhaps ?
One Nanako escape from Hell ?
Scooby Doo ?

But as most video game features monsters, they could qualify to horror ...



you should put the list in alphabetical order...

Cholo

Prince of persia perhaps (it seems quite bloody to me)  :)

Xyphoe

Quote from: arnoldemu on 10:16, 23 September 10
They contain ghosts and Egyption mummies..

Ok, they are not scary but they could be thought of as horror related.

Yea, the topics not about 'gory' games but ones with a horror theme ... Roland On The Ropes has vampire bats, skeletons, mummies and all sorts.
When the skeletons appeared playing this when I was 7 years old it scared the shit out of me! lol!  ;D

Xyphoe

I'm making a vid of horror games on the Amstrad, and yes some of them there are rather tenuous but thought I'd start a list that covers as much as possible regardless then whittle it down.

eg Friday 13th will be included, but things like Barbarian (despite being gory) probably won't be.

Gryzor

Well, there are two 'horror' categories: the tongue-in-cheek horror, where you can see bats and skeletons and stuff like that but it's never supposed to be scary (7 year-olds don't count!), and then there's those games that genuinely try to instill anxiety and terror. Aliens could be one of those, and I think this is the list you should be going after...

TomEtJerry

Well, I would add to this list some french adventure games :

Le pacte
Orphée (your goal is to escape hells :-) )
Hurlements
Incantations

Momies blues (3d maze)
Momy (Softhawk)

That's all for now...

T&J/GPA

MacDeath

you should then count Duckula... vampire is an horror theme and those games are horrorfull...I mean terrible...

Nich

Quote from: Gryzor on 08:46, 27 September 10...then there's those games that genuinely try to instill anxiety and terror. Aliens could be one of those, and I think this is the list you should be going after...
I still find Aliens to be genuinely scary. You're guiding your team around the spaceship, with a tune being played softly in the background, and then - the calm is broken by a loud alarm as an alien enters the room, and you have mere seconds to shoot it before it kills your crew! The atmosphere is tense throughout the game, and it's a credit to the programmers that they achieved this.

It's even more tense if you take too long and the spaceship's power supply fails, leaving your crew in nearly total darkness and unable to navigate your way around the ship! :o

Gryzor

Quote from: Nich on 21:14, 28 September 10
I still find Aliens to be genuinely scary. You're guiding your team around the spaceship, with a tune being played softly in the background, and then - the calm is broken by a loud alarm as an alien enters the room, and you have mere seconds to shoot it before it kills your crew! The atmosphere is tense throughout the game, and it's a credit to the programmers that they achieved this.

It's even more tense if you take too long and the spaceship's power supply fails, leaving your crew in nearly total darkness and unable to navigate your way around the ship! :o

Two more games are like that: Vindicator (well, the first level; very oppressive and silent and all), and (not released on the CPC, of course, but worth mentioning) Lost Patrol. Hair-raising moments with this one...

betpet

Alien
Total Eclipse (it had mummies that jumped out of coffins)
Castle Master 1 and 2 (I'm sure that had ghosts)
Scapeghost
Lurking Horror
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Xyphoe

Cheers Betpet

Does "The Lurking Horror" have any urrr 'scary images' of stills that show or is it all text? I played a bit of Dracula text adventure for a bit last night and managed to see quite a few grisly cut scene images!

Ythcal

Lurking Horror is a classic Infocom adventure, so there are no pictures. But it's really scary.

Gryzor

Quote from: Ythcal on 08:52, 30 September 10
Lurking Horror is a classic Infocom adventure, so there are no pictures. But it's really scary.

But there *are* text adventures with pics...

betpet

No pics for lurking horror.  There are for Scapeghost though.
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Ythcal

#19
Yes, there ARE text-adventures with pictures, but not from Infocom  ;)  (ok, starting 1988 they made few adventures with pix, but not for the CPC)

arnoldemu

Isn't there a text adventure with gfx called Wolfman or similar? This could be included? And one based on dracula too?


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betpet

Quote from: arnoldemu on 09:34, 01 October 10
Isn't there a text adventure with gfx called Wolfman or similar? This could be included? And one based on dracula too?

(Delta software??)

I recall a Jack the Ripper one too
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betpet

Quote from: CP/M User on 10:49, 01 October 10
I got the Horror of my life when I completed (Yes Completed) Spooky Castle first go!  ???

10/10 for game design and challenge there  ::)
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Xyphoe

Happy Halloween guys!!



Now you know why I was asking for your lists ;)

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