The success of that game led to a sequel in the NES, which arrived in North America in October 1992 - just in time for Halloween that year. Original Gargoyle’s Quest on the Nintendo Game Boy. Popular YouTuber The Gaming Historian made a superb and insightful video about the game and its history, well worth checking out below.įirebrand, the red, fire-breathing gargoyle from Ghosts ‘n Goblins spun off into his own franchise with the Uninvited is an overall satisfying experience, and everything we look for in our Halloween games. However, the atmosphere is spot on and the music can send chills down one’s spine. The game is difficult, terrifying and, at times, frustrating. The player moves a cursor around the screen, searching for clues, items, secret passages, etc., all while attempting to avoid certain doom. The action takes place via a first-person perspective. Thus begins a paranormal adventure for the ages. As you approach the facade of the building, your car explodes behind you.
Your passenger is missing, so you decide to check out the house. As you step out of the vehicle, you see that you’ve crashed in front of a mansion. The game begins with you - the protagonist - awakening in the driver’s seat of a wrecked car. The original arrived in 1986 on Macintosh computers, with an MS-DOS and NES port on 19 respectively. Uninvited is a point-and-click adventure game. As a kid, I found this utterly terrifying. The first thing one may notice about this game is the cover: a creepy skeleton lady, clad in a hat and blue dress, reaches with its grotesque hand toward the player. For the purpose of this feature, games based on horror film franchisees are excluded.Traditionally associated with the holiday.The game must contain a monstrous creature or creatures.
The (extremely loose) criteria we used to judge these are:
Obviously, Luigi’s Mansion and it’s sequel Dark Moon are excellent Halloween games, but for the purpose of this list, but for the sake of grasping at the last straws of nostalgia for our childhoods, we’re sticking with the good, old Nintendo Entertainment System. Strange happenings, indeed, but I digress. That ghost certainly loved Battletoads. Occasionally, games disappeared and controllers randomly unraveled. It could’ve been a power supply or other internal failure, but I’m quite certain it was a poltergeist. Here at Nerdvana, we love retro games, so for this feature, we’ve chosen to stay with Nintendo titles, as the earliest games offer the best Halloween experience.īefore it died in 2010, my original NES would randomly power itself on and off. We take a break from the usual festivities to bring you a list of our favorite NES games to play around this time of year. Happy Halloween from all of us here at Nerdvana! The Curious Case of the Haunted NES …Īre you tired of the same old costume parties that rely too heavily upon drinking to enjoy them? Trick-or-treating bringing you down? Is the horror film festival too far away to attend? Are you looking for a fun, spooky, retro game to play this Halloween? Well, folks, despair not! We’ve got just the right mix of spooky games and scary retro classics to cure your blues!Īlright, enough of that. 1 on this list is an obscure NES title, which you can scroll down to see below. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Email Trick-or-treat! It’s Halloween!ĭisclaimer: the clickbait title is intended as a joke.
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