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Cthullu influences in speccy games

morphmorph
edited February 2015 in Games
Following from the Pagan thread, are there any games influenced from the warped mind of HP Lovecraft? Everyone's favourite elder god Cthullu is all over the internet, but he doesn't seem to have made it onto the Spectrum I think.

(Maybe because the Euro hadn't yet been minted, so no Cthullu smileys yet.

:?

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Or am I wrong?
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  • SokurahSokurah
    edited February 2015
    Cthulhu influences...

    Sbugetti Junction? :lol:
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  • The Lone MagpieThe Lone Magpie
    edited February 2015
    The Shadow Warriors over Innsmouth
    Thing on a Spring on the Doorstep
    Shadow of the Beast sounds like it should be a Lovecraftian title; they're usually a variation of "x of the y" (Haunter of the Dark, Shadow out of Time, Whisperer in the Darkness, Colour out of Space, etc).

    Seriously though, haven't been able to find anything, even had a look through the text adventures and there's nothing, remarkably. Shadow over Innsmouth would easily make a good text adventure. There's a brilliant Xbox game called Call of Cthulhu and the first half of the game is basically Shadow over Innsmouth, escaping from the hotel and being chased through the town by it's inhabitants.
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited February 2015
    The Lone Magpie wrote: »
    Seriously though, haven't been able to find anything, even had a look through the text adventures and there's nothing, remarkably. Shadow over Innsmouth would easily make a good text adventure. There's a brilliant Xbox game called Call of Cthulhu and the first half of the game is basically Shadow over Innsmouth, escaping from the hotel and being chased through the town by it's inhabitants.

    Does the protagonist wear a Miskatonic University jumper? If not I would be unimpressed :D
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  • karnak1karnak1
    edited February 2015
    Take a look at this list
  • The Lone MagpieThe Lone Magpie
    edited February 2015
    karnak1 wrote: »
    Take a look at this list

    Nice find, but damn it, all the text adventures are in Spanish. :(
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  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited February 2015
    The Lone Magpie wrote: »
    Nice find, but damn it, all the text adventures are in Spanish. :(

    The Price of Magik is in English and it's pretty good.
  • JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
    edited February 2015
    Curious to see very few titles for Spectrum based on Lovecraft universe.

    Later in the 90s we found many interesting PC-game adventures based on it: the Alone in the Dark trilogy, Shadow of the Comet, and others I don't remember their names now.
  • ArjunArjun
    edited February 2015
    Matt_B wrote: »
    The Price of Magik is in English and it's pretty good.

    But is it really inspired by Cthulu? I don't see any mention of it or any element of horror in any of the reviews. Haven't played the game myself though.
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  • Antiriad2097Antiriad2097
    edited February 2015
    Found this in the archive:
    ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/disks-inform/Anchorhead-AnInteractiveTaleOfLovercraftianHorror.dsk.zip

    Not sure exactly what it is, can't find a corresponding page that details it and I've left my tablet in the car so I can't try it out right now.

    It's a shame The Smirking Horror didn't make it out.

    Zenobi covered a lot of bases, are none of their games Lovecraftian? I did buy the disks from Balrog, but I've still not played more than a handful of them.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited February 2015
    There was a JSW remake called a Lovecraftian Willy, or Willy and the Cthullu Mythos or something like that years ago, but it was never finished.

    The guy working on it just vanished as well, shame he had some nice looking sprites drawn for it, probably would've been quite fun.
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  • morphmorph
    edited February 2015
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    The guy working on it just vanished as well, shame he had some nice looking sprites drawn for it, probably would've been quite fun.

    Tsk. He probably invoked the name of The Great One too often. Did he not know?
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited February 2015
    morph wrote: »
    Tsk. He probably invoked the name of The Great One too often. Did he not know?

    Who? Dagon? ;)
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  • fahrenheit1987fahrenheit1987
    edited February 2015
    Arjun wrote: »
    But is it really inspired by Cthulu? I don't see any mention of it or any element of horror in any of the reviews. Haven't played the game myself though.

    The Price of Magik, if I remember rightly, had a sanity system which was almost certainly inspired by the Call of Cthulhu RPG.
  • WookieeWookiee
    edited February 2015
    The Lone Magpie wrote: »
    The Shadow Warriors over Innsmouth
    Thing on a Spring on the Doorstep
    Shadow of the Beast sounds like it should be a Lovecraftian title; they're usually a variation of "x of the y" (Haunter of the Dark, Shadow out of Time, Whisperer in the Darkness, Colour out of Space, etc).

    Seriously though, haven't been able to find anything, even had a look through the text adventures and there's nothing, remarkably. Shadow over Innsmouth would easily make a good text adventure. There's a brilliant Xbox game called Call of Cthulhu and the first half of the game is basically Shadow over Innsmouth, escaping from the hotel and being chased through the town by it's inhabitants.

    Dark corners of the Earth... great game
  • morphmorph
    edited February 2015
    Matt_B wrote: »
    The Price of Magik is in English and it's pretty good.

    Thats a good list. The Price Of Magik has a sanity system in it. You have to be slightly insane before you can cast some of the spells. Most of the game is set in a large house which isn't exactly haunted, but does have a grandfather clock which chimes out the hours noisily. However the final baddy to be killed is a wizard rather than a slumbering Ancient One.

    I was excited to find in the list The Mystery Of Arkham Manor, which appears to be a sort of sequel to Redhawk. I wasn't aware of that. Annoyingly its a prohibited distribution.
  • The Lone MagpieThe Lone Magpie
    edited February 2015
    fahrenheit1987 wrote: »
    The Price of Magik, if I remember rightly, had a sanity system which was almost certainly inspired by the Call of Cthulhu RPG.

    Ohohohoho....now THAT is interesting. Nintendo, when they released the Lovecraft-themed Gamecube game "Eternal Darkness", patented the sanity meter in the game, meaning nobody else could use that feature in a video game. If someone has used it beforehand...
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  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited February 2015
    Arjun wrote: »
    But is it really inspired by Cthulu? I don't see any mention of it or any element of horror in any of the reviews. Haven't played the game myself though.

    It's definitely inspired by Cthulhu, Level 9 mentioned as much in an interview here:

    http://spectrum-zx.chat.ru/level9.htm

    Still, much like Red Moon is obviously based upon The Magic Goes Away by Larry Niven, they're quite careful to avoid anything that might constitute a copyright infringement.
  • The Lone MagpieThe Lone Magpie
    NECROPOST! (But not as bad as they usually are)
    I'm currently working on a wee game based on Lovecraft's "In the Walls of Eryx". Got the gameplay mechanics working, just need to make a load of maps and tart it up with some nice graphics.
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  • stupidgetstupidget
    You going to post any tantalising screen shots then?
    Sausages is more important
  • WhenIWasCruelWhenIWasCruel
    The graphic adventure "Mystery of Akrham Manor" is lovecraftian, by the guys behind Redhawk/Kwah!.
    1987 ZX reviews
  • The Lone MagpieThe Lone Magpie
    stupidget wrote: »
    You going to post any tantalising screen shots then?

    Ask and ye shall receive... :D
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  • DavidBDavidB
    morph wrote: »
    Matt_B wrote: »
    The Price of Magik is in English and it's pretty good.

    Thats a good list. The Price Of Magik has a sanity system in it. You have to be slightly insane before you can cast some of the spells. Most of the game is set in a large house which isn't exactly haunted, but does have a grandfather clock which chimes out the hours noisily. However the final baddy to be killed is a wizard rather than a slumbering Ancient One.

    I was excited to find in the list The Mystery Of Arkham Manor, which appears to be a sort of sequel to Redhawk. I wasn't aware of that. Annoyingly its a prohibited distribution.

    Think the two Redhawk games were Redhawk and Say Kwah. Although Arkham Manor was from the same author. He's recently appeared on Facebook I think?
    No one important.
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