One thing we’ve lost somewhat over the procession of console generations we’ve lived through is a feeling of “uniqueness” for each platform, and Super Castlevania IV brings that very much into focus. Sure, Nintendo still does its own thing with the Switch and its games are immediately recognisable, but I’m talking more about a very [...]
Prior to the release of Konami’s Castlevania Anniversary Collection, Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse was not a game I had any experience with whatsoever, aside from one critical aspect: its music. Specifically, back when the PS1 was current, I had an original copy of Symphony of the Night (which, believe me, I severely regret getting rid of now!) that came with [...]
Splatterhouse is a classic 1988 horror game from Namco, and there are a variety of ways you can play it today — the most recent and readily accessible of which include the excellent Namco Museum on Switch, or the PC Engine Mini, if you were lucky enough to nab one. It’s also a very interesting game to look [...]
Yeah, all right, all right, we done goofed and forgot to do a list this Tuesday. But never fear, for the magic of image editing means that no-one will ever know my shame, aside from the fact that I just admitted it. But oh well. Anyway. As you know, with Spooky Season on the rise, [...]
Trilobyte’s The 7th Guest, originally released in 1993, has always had a rather curious, mixed perception, both from a critical and a popular perspective. On the one hand, it was regarded as a “killer app” for the then-new CD-ROM technology that home computers were just starting to get at the time. On the other, longstanding [...]
Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest is a remarkable game in a lot of ways. While it has plenty of detractors — some of whose complaints are justified to a certain degree — it’s also an absolutely fascinating game to contemplate when you consider the direction that the series went in its later years. As previously noted, [...]
Old-school handhelds may not be the first place you’d think to look for either horror games or adventure games — but there are occasional examples of both. On the Game Boy, for example, we have “modern retro” title Deadeus, which is great. And on the Atari Lynx, we have Dracula: The Undead. I would not [...]
If you enjoy the earlier incarnations of the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game ruleset — particularly the second edition “Advanced” variant — then there’s a wealth of retro fun to be had. The classic D&D PC games from the ’80s and ’90s mostly hold up remarkably well today — and while Ravenloft: Strahd’s Possession will [...]
We can’t look back at classic spooky games from retro gaming history without paying homage to Atari’s Haunted House from 1982. Alongside Mattel’s Night Stalker from the same year, this game played a significant role in defining what we now know to be survival horror: games in which you play a fragile player character, have [...]
Today, as part of Spooky Season 2021, we’re going to take a look at 1982’s Night Stalker for the Intellivision, also known as Dark Cavern when it was released for Atari 2600 through Mattel’s M Network label. It’s an Intellivision classic — and coming soon to the Intellivision Collection 1 cartridge for the Evercade — [...]