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BC Gaming's Five Weeks of Horror: Splatterhouse Arcade and TurboGrafx-16 Reviews

Jason Westhaver — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:02:10 EDT

If you've ever seen an '80s slasher, then you'll know what to expect.
Nearly four years before Midway's Mortal Kombat made headlines for its shocking portrayal of blood and gore, Namco tested the waters of good taste with its own aptly named title, Splatterhouse. With a design heavily influenced by popular horror films of the day, players were treated to graphic depictions of violence as they fought their way through...

BC Gaming's Five Weeks of Horror: A Nightmare on Elm Street NES Review

Jason Westhaver — Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:35:00 EDT

One, two, Freddy's coming for you. Three, four, better lock the door...
One, two, Freddy's coming for you. Three, four, better lock the door. You know the rhythm, you know why you should be afraid and you know why Robert Englund's tombstone will read, "See you in your dreams". For most of the '80s and part of the '90s, Freddy Krueger ruled our nightmares. He made us fear sleep, he made us love coffee and he became the...

BC Gaming's Five Weeks of Horror: Horror in the Time of Atari

Jason Westhaver — Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:32:41 EDT

It's amazing what having one can reap with a few pixels and a joystick.
AlienI'll cut the BS and jump straight to the point on this one. Alien on the Atari 2600 is nothing more then a bad Pac-Man port. Game play is an exact carbon copy, aside from being able to briefly scare the aliens with a flamethrower. Every maze is exactly the same as the one before it only with slightly faster enemies. Enemies that seem to get...

BC Gaming's Five Weeks of Horror: Clock Tower Review

Jason Westhaver — Wed, 1 Oct 2008 19:10:15 EDT

It's like if Dario Argento made a horror game.
Horror gaming might be common in today's world of violent excess, but back in the early '90s they were few and far between. Though we'd seen a few titles like Halloween and Hugo's House of Horrors, they weren't really scary. Perhaps that's why Clock Tower so special. It was scary then and it's still scary now.Originally released in Japan for the...

BC Gaming's Five Weeks of Horror

Jason Westhaver — Wed, 1 Oct 2008 19:03:10 EDT

Violence and terror and gore, oh my! BC Gaming brings you 5 weeks of the finest horror games you may have never played.
Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Fatal Frame. They're often held to be the pinnacles of horror gaming, but when people start to refer to them as the originators of horror, my skin crawls. Yes, they made a huge impact on the genre, but we were fighting ghosts and monsters over a decade before we took that fateful trip into the Arklay Mountains.That's...