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[borghe]

just keep telling yourself, it's only a video game.........

 

[Truelize]

I loved that game. So awesome.

 

[Dalthien]

I remember winning this game oh so many years ago.

Wonderful game. Loved the atmosphere and the artistic style for the time.

 

[MrDaravon]

THE TERROR MASK

Ahahahahaha, classic win

 

[shuri]

Too bad Jennifer doesnt make it

 

[demi]

I thought this was about Sweet Home

 

[Defensor]

What happened Namco?

 

[G-Fex]

quit wasting time with Soul Calibur and tekken and make us a splatterhouse remake!

 

[ToyMachine228]

Let's not forget Zombies Ate My Neighbors!

 

[krypt0nian]

I think Alone in the Dark is the TRUE first SH game.

 

[Unison]

I think Alone in the Dark is the TRUE first SH game.

True. It's way, way better than Splatterhouse too!

 

[Johnny Konami]

Wasn't there talk of a Splatterhouse re-make/sequel not too long ago?

Those genny games don't count

 

[yggdrasil]

I think Alone in the Dark is the TRUE first SH game.

Sure, except for the actually playable monster and boss encounters.

 

[JackFrost2012]

as much as I hate to agree with Demi, I also thought this was about Sweet Home

 

[MarkMacD]

Sweet Home: Good movie, great game.

Too bad the 3D Splatterhouse "got the axe." Tohohohohoho.

 

[Spectral Glider]

I thought it was about this:

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=3703

 

[borghe]

mainly posted this to let some old school gamers have some fun reminiscing on video game ads from back in the day (this one from 1990). but also as a splatterhouse appreciation thread.

what the hell is sweet home?

on a similar note (to this thread) if anyone has any particular game ads they want me to keep an eye out for. These are all from coic books, not game magazines (haven't gotten to those yet though I have hundreds).

 

[Ranger X]

Splatterhouse may be one of the first very gory game but it's more a beat-em up than anything else.
Action-Horror as we know it, the first is Alone in the Dark to me.

 

[JackFrost2012]

what the hell is sweet home?

NES game from Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil, etc.). Sort of Dragon Quest/sound novel hybrid with good scares. The "original survival horror" game in the both the temporal and spiritual meanings of the word. Fully fan-translated, but no links from me.

Splatterhouse is cool too, don't get me wrong. But Sweet Home was first and more influencial to the actual "survival horror" genre, not just the "demonic imagery" genre. It could be argued that Alone in the Dark was the first "modern" survival horror game, however. Still, since Mikami re-invented it with RE, his NES game gets a bump.

 

[borghe]

I actually know Alone in the Dark was the first.. played it when it first came out.. amazing, even today. just pimping splatterhouse (Also considering most console gamers never got to play alone in the dark).

 

[Lord Error]

I thought it was about this:

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=3703

So damn good.

 

[D-X]

Too bad Jennifer doesnt make it

Say it aint so! Well I guess the needed a revenge motive for the 2nd and 3rd ones...

 

[n-off]

I thought it was about this:

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=3703

please, please, somebody make a remake of this.
best scifi horror game ever!

 

[Lord Error]

I actually know Alone in the Dark was the first.. played it when it first came out.. amazing, even today. just pimping splatterhouse (Also considering most console gamers never got to play alone in the dark).

Project Firestart was a "survival horror" game in every sense of the word (tension, atmosphere, gameplay, presented with static backgrounds and cinematic atmosphere and visuals) but was made 3 years before Alne in the dark. It was also an awesome game, btw. One of the best on C64.

 

[n-off]

Project Firestart DS

 

[Lord Error]

Soon enough you'll probably get to play it on the PSP, actually. I think I've heard that there's a C64 emu being made.

 

[Remedy]

i used to have splatterhouse on the arcade, one of the best games of its time.

 

[Spectral Glider]

I never could make it out with the girl alive in Project Firestart....what was the trick anyway? It really was a phenomenal game the likes of which had never before been seen. I was always surprised that it appeared on just the C-64 in 1989 and not the Amiga. Not that I was complaining at the time, but it was just such an ambitious idea.

The first time I played Resident Evil, Firestart was instantly the first thing that popped into my head. Yet the media totally glossed over it's memory and instead moaned and groaned about Alone in the Dark.

 

[Agent X]

This could be considered the original survival horror game:

 

[saelz8]

I wanted Splatter House bad back in the day. Getting it never did fall through though. You know how mommy and daddy were.

Im gonna have to agree with Alone in the dark beeing the first survival horror game.

 

[belgurdo]

This could be considered the original survival horror game:

Oh shit ghosts bats AND tarantulas? I'm fuckin' sold

 

[PC Gaijin]

Alone in the Dark got console ports didn't it? At least I remember playing a Saturn version once (awful game, not sure if it was the port or the game itself). Another early survival horror-ish game is Laplace no Ma, although it leans a bit more towards the RPG side. Came out in early 1993 IIRC.

The US boxart for Splatterhouse was kind of amusing too. There was a blurb about the game being "too strong for children...or cowards" or something to that effect :lol. This was all before the big stink over videogame violence and Mortal Kombat. I can't recall much of a fuss being made over Splatterhouse, although those ads were pretty suggestive (and very good for NEC, who usually had crap ads).

 

[Spectral Glider]

This could be considered the original survival horror game:

Sure, if you could survive how horrible it was. Nostalgia has made some people pump that one up to the level of Adventure, but it wasn't nearly as good.

 

[Lazy8s]

Haunted House for the 2600... I remember once beating that game in under thirty seconds. Something about the random location of the key and the destination.

 

[FoneBone]

Too bad the 3D Splatterhouse "got the axe." Tohohohohoho.

Out of curiosity -- any idea as to why it was cancelled, or who was developing it?

 

[TekunoRobby]

I thought this thread was going to be about Pac Man.

 

[Monk]

I thought this was about Sweet Home

^^^ And it rocks too. Scarier than all of the RE's combined!