/vr/ - Retro Games

Dr. Chaos for the NES is a wretchedly horrible game, but when I played it the first time as a kid, it was horrifying. The cover art for the box had really intrigued me for the longest in the NES rental aisle and I remember thinking to myself in all my naivety, "I wonder if I'm old enough to play this. It looks really scary. Is that blood?"

The game gives you a knife and a quest to collect...something. I never lived that long through any of my attempts. The first-person room view was really intense for me and I felt there could be danger lurking anywhere, and sometimes there was. The monsters were really disturbing. I couldn't even tell what they were. They were just weird caricaturistic THINGS moving erratically unnatural around the screen. And before you know it, you're dead and you have to start over.

Years later, I found an article on the game on Hardcore Gaming 101 and discovered all the similarities between Dr. Chaos and the movie House. Blew my fucking mind.