Spooky Retro Games

[Anonymous No.11195242]

Halloween is coming up. Have you been enjoying any scary games during this Spooky Season?

[Anonymous No.11195321]

>>11195242
It’s still way too hot out and early for that, but I’d say Friday the 13th NES qualifies as a spooky summer game.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UEgEAQ2J5wI&t=4s&pp=ygUfZnJpZGF5IHRoZSAxM3RoIG5lcyBjYWJpbiBtdXNpYw%3D%3D

[Anonymous No.11195403]

>>11195242
>coming up
It’s still fucking August. You’re the reason why stores out out Halloween shit in July. The ride has to end at some point.
Fuck you

[Anonymous No.11195469]

Muppet Monster Adventure is always a must play for me every year. Kind of a shame that it's a bit uncommon (in the states at least) from what I hear. Was developed by Psygnosis and published by Midway. It's a fun little 3D collect-a-thon platformer with tons of humor

[Anonymous No.11195475]

Muppet Monster Adventure is always a must play for me every year. Kind of a shame that it's a bit uncommon (in the states at least) from what I hear. Was developed by Psygnosis and published by Midway. It's a fun little 3D collect-a-thon platformer with tons of humor

Also De-Cap Attack and The Haunting: Starirng Poulterguy for the Genesis/Mega-Drive are also must plays

[Anonymous No.11195486]

>>11195475
I played through Haunting at a friend's house and liked it a lot, really unique.

[Anonymous No.11195490]

Smurf Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, the OG vania game.

[Anonymous No.11195606]

X-Multiply
An absolute must play

[Anonymous No.11196250]

>>11195475
Excellent recommendations

[Anonymous No.11196390]

>>11195242
I also think it's way too early for this thread, but I will take any chance I get to shill Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti

[Anonymous No.11196425]

>>11196390
Wanpaku Graffiti is an amazing game, probably one of the first japanese games I played when I started emulating. I'd love to see it get remade while keeping the original color palette

[Anonymous No.11196446]

>>11195242
Too early imo but I did play pic rel and the Sabrina games on GBC recently. Magical Chase is also good

[Anonymous No.11196503]

>>11195403
>It’s still fucking August
This^^^. At the very least wait until September 1st to even think of baking Halloween breads.

[Anonymous No.11196523]

>>11196503
Tell that to Home Depot which I went to a couple of days ago and already had a halloween section.

[Anonymous No.11196531]

>>11196446
>Magical Chase is also good
Hello no, play Cotton 100% instead

[Anonymous No.11196559]

>>11195403
Tell stores to stop having Santa Claus and reindeer in the middle of October.

[Anonymous No.11197328]

>>11196425
>>11196390
Based

[Anonymous No.11197334]

>>11196531
They are both good imo, as well as Fantastic Night Dreams on Turbo CD

[Anonymous No.11197393]

>>11195242
With a little more refining, Monster Party could've been a much better game. I honestly think it's not too bad as it is, gameplay wise, and the charm of it all makes it a fun experience. Anyway,
>make the projectile reflecting mechanic more beneficial/do more damage to bosses - it's useful for quickly killing the egg enemies, but for the majority of bosses, it's much more effective to just use the held bat attack
>make dark versions of a few more levels beyond just the first; the lake level in particular would've been a great choice, almost to the point that it seems like they might've intended it to have one at some point in development
>longer/more refined music tracks - the title theme and ending theme are great, as is the password entry to a lesser extent, so the composition skill was there to have better music throughout the game; the cave theme is nice and eerie, but it feels like the prelude to a longer piece which never materializes
>maybe include another story interlude halfway through the game
There's some things which make me wonder if the game were indeed unfinished, like maybe when they decided to scrap the Japanese release, the original team stopped genuine work on it, and they just hastily edited it and patched up bugs for the US release, since they knew they wouldn't be able to release the game they originally set out to make, complete with all the parodies. Or maybe all of that was handled by a different team? It would explain garbage like picrel and the fact that the second to last level introduced a softlock bug which wasn't even present in the Japanese proto.

[Anonymous No.11198130]

Undead Line for Mega Drive, great atmosphere but it’s hard as fuck. Plays a lot like Adventures of Dino Riki for NES. Definitely a lesser known spooky game that’s worth a look.

[Anonymous No.11198561]

It's PS1 so it counts.

[Anonymous No.11198646]

Spirits and Spells/Castleween/Mahou no Pumpkin for the GBA is fun, haven't tried the console title

[Anonymous No.11198675]

It's definitely too early for Halloween but I will concede and recommend Robotrek as early fall kino. Also the credit roll is a super cute scene of different holidays, Chinese New Year, Christmas and yes Halloween. I just love the changing of the seasons and the holidays so much bros
https://youtu.be/OzXhLKn4-to?si=PMLa8w44BbbYPzZN

[Anonymous No.11199269]

>>11198646
Cute>>11198646

[Anonymous No.11199306]

>>11195403
That's nothing, someone made pic related earlier this week

[Anonymous No.11199314]

>>11196523
Yup, walmart went from summer to back to school and is now putting out costumes. No wonder these things arent special anymore.
>>11197334
Yeah, both star witches too. But i think magical chase is just more fun on a quick play.

[Anonymous No.11199651]

>>11197393
It's one of my favorite games just because of the atmosphere and weirdness and I've always gone back and forth on whether or not they should have had dark versions for other (or all) levels. Sometimes I wonder if only having it in the first level makes it all the more special kinda like how only having kuribo's shoe in one level in SMB3 does. I do think they should have had something unique happen in each stage but I'm not sure what. The game is very front loaded haha.

[Anonymous No.11199953]

>>11195242
I'm not sure if it counts, but since the OG film is more of a horror film than the sequels, that had more of an action focus, I think this still counts... The Terminator on SEGA Genesis. It captures the dark atmosphere of the film perfectly, especially during the last level. It's a 15 minute run when it clicks and you know what to do, you get a single life for the whole thing, so it adds tension there.

[Anonymous No.11200084]

>>11199651
Maybe having the lake level as completely bright does contribute positively to the overall strangeness of the game. I suspect that they perhaps intended to have more dark versions of some levels, in part because the prototype's lack of music change after the transition makes it seem like they'd just recently implemented it in that build; based on the lack of significant non-censorship/bug cleanup between the proto and the final US version, I'm guessing genuine development stopped shortly after the proto and transitioned into spitshining it as-it-was for Nintendo approval. The game definitely seems like it was some sort of passion project, given all the horror movie references and the fact that most every other game released under the Shinsei name were random licensed games. Doubt we will ever know for sure, since I don't know if any of the developers have any sort of online presence

[Anonymous No.11200474]

>TOO EARL!
Comfy fall weather has already come to my neck of the woods (though we still get a few hot and humid days here and there too)

[Anonymous No.11200912]

>>11200474
If the sun is setting past 630PM then it’s too damn early for Halloween. I don’t care if you live in some icenigger country and you’re cold. It’s still summer

[Anonymous No.11200945]

>>11195242
It got nice and cool here for a few days earlier this week and I've been on my annual Castlevania kick ever since. The new collection and Haunted Castle Revisited hit at the absolute perfect time for me.

[Anonymous No.11201001]

>>11200912
Halloween isn't just about the night itself, but the leadup to it anon
It's starting to get to the 50's at night in my northerly state, perfect weather to get ready for Halloween

[Anonymous No.11201085]

>>11201001
>Halloween isn't just about the night itself
Except it is, tard. Halloween marks the end of the harvest season. Stop talking like a Hallmark customer rep. It’s fucking August

[Anonymous No.11201134]

Halloween's already over. I'm putting up Christmas decorations this weekend.

[Anonymous No.11201151]

>>11195403
>You’re the reason why stores out out Halloween shit in July
I almost posted a Christmas games thread on /v/ twice in the last couple weeks

[Anonymous No.11201153]

>>11201151
Please do. I want to hear about more christmas games

[Anonymous No.11201158]

>>11200945
Its 90+ here AND the leaves are turning yellow. The corn is getting ready for harvest but its 70+ as the overnight lows. Wtf guys, im a doomed planet jrpg.

[Anonymous No.11201161]

>>11195242
I remember reading a review of this game on a site called Syd Lexia.com years ago

[Anonymous No.11201431]

>>11195403
The
Ride
Never
Ends

[Anonymous No.11201434]

>>11201161
Monster Party was one of the cornerstones of online retrogaming culture back in the day. Felt like every gaming humor site writer had to have their take on it, plus all the speculation around the fabled Japanese version prototype (surreal to think that said version has been online for about a decade now).
https://youtu.be/TZZ-6VrPwyw

[Anonymous No.11201438]

With the 4th of July coming up what are some patriotic games?

[Anonymous No.11202343]

>>11201438

[Anonymous No.11203328]

>>11202343
Dog. Fucking. Bless.

[Anonymous No.11203421]

[11328 No.11204149]

>>11203328
Are you retarded or handicapped?

[Anonymous No.11204175]

The title screen of pucrel scared the shit oit of me when I was a kid and my older sister played it.

[Anonymous No.11204186]

resident evil
parasite eve
genma onimusha
carnevil
corpse killer
loaded/reloaded
phantasmagoria series
harvester
dark seed
the horde
vampire the masquerade games
the blair witch series
alone in the dark
dracula series
evil dead series
bloody roar series
mortal kombat
ghouls n goblins series
adams family series/fester's quest
castlevania series
diablo
hexen/ heretic
quake
maniac mansion
blood

[Anonymous No.11204570]

>>11204149
It's called being American you commie

[Anonymous No.11205183]

>>11195242
Corpse Party for PC-98 is still excellent. I love its atmosphere and mood, the OST definitely helps, and controlling helpless children/teenagers adds to the feeling of not really being able to fight if things go wrong, you're prey, a victim, and your only focus is to flee, to escape. It's just a kind of horror that gets to me, even with simple looks and sound, playing this alone at night is scary.

I can't recommend it enough.

[Anonymous No.11205402]

>>11205183
The PSP remake is the definitive version since the OG is just an rpg maker game

[Anonymous No.11205404]

[Anonymous No.11205982]

isle of the dead
the executioners(apogee)

[Anonymous No.11205990]

>>11205982
The main artist for this game went on to become a brony and a fairly successful webtoon animator. He died a few years ago, though.

[Anonymous No.11206013]

>>11205402
I guess, though I find the smaller cast, simplicity and the overall style that feels less like a 2000's anime to be better for the playing experience of it, and the horror factor. I like anime, don't get me wrong, but something about this old RPG Maker creation just feels more spooky than the PSP stuff, especially after they went for the fan service visual novel route.

It's a shame the franchise died still.

[Anonymous No.11206252]

>>11197393
I would have liked a sequel to this game. The first was okay but it could have been better. Like you said a "dark version" of different levels would have been fun

[Anonymous No.11206586]

>>11205990
:(

[Anonymous No.11206625]

>>11195321
This. It's like fucking 90 out and the trees are still greener than you're zoomer ass, OP. Faggot ass negroid fignig lesbo femboi, can't you wait one more fucking month before your mkultra Manchurian candidate gay brainwashing kicks in?

[Anonymous No.11207104]

>>11206625
What's with all the faggot words? Write like a person.

[Anonymous No.11207475]

>>11206625
lol. Die mad, get reanimated, and enjoy spooky season, bitch.

[Anonymous No.11207520]

I don't have that many spooky games to post, but I have spooky game, Japan. It's also got a western mode that turns the graves western (so a cross) and western monsters as enemies. You control both the eye and the spirit at the same time which is the spookiest part.

[Anonymous No.11207960]

>>11201085
Pipe down amigo, I don't live in a desert and the leaves are changing color, so I'm gettin ready for Halloween and fall whether it gets your poncho in a twist or not

[Anonymous No.11208996]

halloween is where the heart is

[Anonymous No.11209775]

>>11204175
Spooky

[Anonymous No.11210563]

>>11195242
SPLATTERHOUSE!

[Anonymous No.11211281]

>>11210563
It's so beautiful.

[Anonymous No.11211650]

>>11207960
You are the problem with the world, schlomo.

[Anonymous No.11211769]

>>11211650
If it's not mid 60's where you live right now, then you have no place to call anybody else a jew lmao

[Anonymous No.11211819]

>>11195403
Both Halloween and Christmas are fucking based and only actual retards don't want the good vibes from both as much as possible.

[Anonymous No.11212259]

>>11206625
You can just hide the thread you know, you don't have to come into it and shit yourself with rage.

[Anonymous No.11212925]

>>11201434
True it really was. Now that I think about it Monster Party might be in that exact sweet spot where everyone who is into retro gaming knows of it but anyone who isn't (like people who played NES in the 80s/90s but moved on to the next systems as soon as they came out and never looked back) has never heard of it or has zero memory of it.

[Anonymous No.11213016]

>>11211819
unironically that's why The Nightmare Before Christmas is an awesome movie.

[Anonymous No.11213031]

Unironically what did he mean by this.
Was Bert the true villain all along?

[Anonymous No.11213041]

I've seen this thread in the catalog multiple times now and every single time I see it, I feel like I'm seeing Monsters in my Pocket.
Which, until a few weeks ago, had no idea there was a cartoon pilot for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7C4D0M6ync

It's far better than it has any right to be, and the main girl has successfully captured that elusive Penny Gadget quality.
That's all. I have nothing to say about Monster Party in particular.

[Anonymous No.11213149]

>>11201434
I fucking remember that, I was so goddamn fascinated by the game and its elusive and mysterious prototype. I think I first stumbled upon the game when I had discovered iMockery and I was going through all their articles.
Then I went reading about it at... what the fuck was that site called, EncyclopediaObscura or something? They had an article analysing a lot of the weird shit with the game.

>>11212925
I suppose? It wasn't ever a famous game in its day, like it was only people specifically into old games going "Hey, ever seen this weird old NES game?"

Man, it's crazy to think this was actually a pretty long time ago now, before /vr/ even.

[Anonymous No.11213337]

>>11204149
You talking fucking shit, you pinko commie? You got a problem with F R E E D O M? Go back to Britain if it doesn't suit you.

>>11210563
Red blooded, that's how you know it's a true American game.

[Anonymous No.11213343]

>>11202343
I need to find the manual to this game so that I can avoid dooming America.

[Anonymous No.11213345]

Yes

https://youtu.be/WMy6HaAvv8M

Here

[Anonymous No.11214170]

>>11201161
Syd's site is still online and he still shows up on twitter once every blue moon, just to show life signs than any actual chronically online behavior.
He only returned online a few days ago because a member of the forum had terminal cancer.

[Anonymous No.11214214]

>>11213149
I never played Monster Party back in the day, but I definitely remember finding out about it as a teenager in the 2000s. Lowtax himself even wrote about it.
https://js.somethingawful.com/rom-pit/monster-party/

[Anonymous No.11214717]

>>11214214
Low tax writing about any game was gold. I especially like his Mayoral Campaign for Silent Hill article.

[Anonymous No.11215602]

>>11213041
She's not bad, but looks much too old for ten. Also an unusual choice to have a girl for the main character, since there were literally zero girls who gave a shit about MIMP. Granted, there's cartoons boys liked which had female MCs, but this MIMP was clearly meant to help push the toys and associated merchandise, so you'd think they'd have played it safer and featured a nerdy tween boy who gets the best of his bullies with the help of his MIMPs or whatever the fuck

[Anonymous No.11216840]

>>11195242
Drac is back!

[Anonymous No.11217227]

>>11216840
Based

[Anonymous No.11218362]

>>11195242
Edgar Allen Poe kino

[Anonymous No.11220518]

Started marathoning Castlevania a bit early. Really fun seeing how things get remade and remixed from older titles.

[Anonymous No.11220580]

>>11195242
I found a copy of that game for $20 a year ago.

[Anonymous No.11220601]

>>11220580
>Monster Party
Oh I did it again. I've had Monster Party for ages. I bought Monster in my Pocket for $20 a year ago.

[Anonymous No.11220637]

Today was the first day of honest to goodness 50s-60s Fall weather bros. But on Monday it's gonna be in the mid to late 80s again until the 18th s mh

[Anonymous No.11221045]