Halloween Spectrum Games
Hi all. I'm gearing up to review a Halloween month of games on my channel this October. I've been rattling through my brain to remember some of the games I used to love that had a Halloweeny theme I can review:
Ghost Hunters
Cauldron (and its sequel)
Rocky Horror Show
Werewolves of London
I'll likely need quite a few more though if I'm going to make it to a month, as I generally output around 3 videos a week. Does anyone have any spooky suggestions? I guess the Alien game could count, don't think I ever played it though. If you do have any suggestions, let me know - regardless of their quality!
Ghost Hunters
Cauldron (and its sequel)
Rocky Horror Show
Werewolves of London
I'll likely need quite a few more though if I'm going to make it to a month, as I generally output around 3 videos a week. Does anyone have any spooky suggestions? I guess the Alien game could count, don't think I ever played it though. If you do have any suggestions, let me know - regardless of their quality!
RoseTintedSpectrum | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGDTjXnyGM5flG6Xk6fiMAg
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Zombie Zombie
Chiller
There are also a number of text adventures that have a horror/spooky theme to them, such as:
Dracula
Frankenstein
Wolfman
Jack The Ripper
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Calling
Thanks Nick, not come across these before. Is Zombie Zombie using the Ant Attack engine?
- My own Sophia and Sophia II (the former was even released on 31 October)
- Go To Hell
- Soft And Cuddly
- Night Breed
- The Addams Family
- Bride Of Frankenstein (later slightly reworked later by Code Masters and re-released as Frankenstein Jnr)
- Hobgoblin
- Olli And Lissa II Halloween
- Ghostbusters
- Blinky's Scary School
- Titanic Blinky
- Invasion Of The Zombie Monsters
- The Last Vampire
- The Mystery Of Arkham Manor
- The Evil Dead
- The Witch's Cauldron
- Zombi
- Stryker in the crypts of Trogan
- Pamela the Zombie Hunter
- Zombie Calavera Prologue
- Lovecraft Mythos
- ZXombies Dead Flesh
If you wish to include the Japanese Yokai in your project, then there is another game of mine you can consider, Seto Taisho Vs Yokai.
Although never officially ported to the Spectrum, you can play Infocom's The Lurking Horror on a Spectrum +3 - real or emulated - through ZXZVM, a ZIL interpreter created by John Elliott and Garry Lancaster.
Yes, it's from the same author in fact, Sandy White.
I'm not a Halloween person myself either, but I do love horror - so any excuse is good in my book! Quite a few mixed in with your list that I've not played too. I reckon your list and Nick's alone would give me a good run. Thanks for the help!
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Another one I've never come across, thanks Luny
What about Ghosts n Goblins and Ghouls n Ghosts.
Atic Atac
Underwurlde
Knight Lore
Frank N Stein (there's a few Frankenstein themed games but I like this one)
Nosferatu
Mr Weems and the She Vampires
Trap Door is a shoe in
Franklin's Tomb
And I even wrote a hint guide and recorded a walkthrough for it... #-o
Well in Italy certainly it is a consumerist scam imported from the US. It also eradicated indigenous customs, like in my region where it was common to make kids discover small presents and sweets on the morning of the 2nd of November, and tell them that they were brought by their deceased relatives. In a few years this kind of special relationship between the living and the dead (together with many other regional customs) has been completely swept away by a craze of pumpkins, witch hats, trick-or-treat etc.
Prince Clumsy
Heartbroken
Vampire’s Empire
Cauldron 1 + 2
Curse of Sherwood
Frightmare
Myth
The Rats
Oooh, that's a good shout. I never played the sequel but loved the first game.
That's incredibly dispiriting (excuse the pun); that sounds like a lovely traditional and certainly a lot more wholesome than banging on doors and begging for sugar.
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