More 2600 Horror Movie Games...

[pocketmego]

of the two horror film based games released on the 2600, Texs Chainsaw massacre was attrocious and halloween was pretty good. I sure wish we cold have seen some more of these.

 

Here are some other ideas for more horror film games (all based on movies that would have been available during the 2600's initial run)

 

Friday the 13th (So many systems had a version of this, but none on Atari and these movies were BIg when Atari was big)

 

Night of the Living Dead or Dawn of the Dead (although a great hack for Dawn of the Dead does exist)

 

The Exorcist (What kind of game might this have been?)

 

Phantasm (the ball is after you)

 

Poltergeist (come on it would have been great along side ET)

 

Creepshow (you try to bake the old man a cake before his zombie corpse gets you)

 

Anyone else want to join in?

 

-Ray

[godzillajoe]

What about The Omen, The Birds, Psycho, any of the other Universal Monsters besides Frankenstein, The Amityville Horror, any 50's b-movie like Earth Vs. The Spider. A proper Jaws game.

[pocketmego]

What is up with the missing Universal Monsters? Dracula got a release on the Intellivision, but none for the 2600. The Intellivision was not THAT much more advanced than the 2600, a Dracula could hav e been made.

 

Was the Inty Drac any good?

 

-Ray

[godzillajoe]

I loved the INTV Dracula. Dunno if it holds up today but as a kid, running around biting people and turning them into zombies was great fun

[pocketmego]

Spunds a bit like Werewolves of London for the C64 and other 8 bit machines at the time. You turned into a Werewolf when the moon came up and could kill people and leave their remains lying around.

 

-Ray

[Inky]

I'd like to hack 'Pressure Cooker' into 'Blood Feast'

 

YOu are Fuad Ramses, and you have a statue of Isis that demands body parts... OUt of hte hotel on the right hand side of the screen, various body parts fly towards you, and you have to create a 'feast' pleasing to Isis...

[moycon]

There was a 20th Century Fox horror game prototype that was found a few years back based on a horror flick called The Entity.

 

More information here:

 

http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/entity/entity.htm

[pocketmego]

I'd like to hack 'Pressure Cooker' into 'Blood Feast'

 

YOu are Fuad Ramses, and you have a statue of Isis that demands body parts... OUt of hte hotel on the right hand side of the screen, various body parts fly towards you, and you have to create a 'feast' pleasing to Isis...

 

Dude, good one.

 

-Ray

[Inky]

I'd like to hack 'Pressure Cooker' into 'Blood Feast'

 

YOu are Fuad Ramses, and you have a statue of Isis that demands body parts... OUt of hte hotel on the right hand side of the screen, various body parts fly towards you, and you have to create a 'feast' pleasing to Isis...

 

Dude, good one.

 

-Ray

 

 

I knew you'd appreciate it..

 

Heck, how about a whole line of Atari games based upon HGL films?

 

Hack Haunted House into 'Monster a-go-go' You are a 'Puzzled man of courage" Trying to find pieces of a geiger counter in the sewers of Chicago, so that yoiu can track "some THING called Douglas"

 

I'v previously dmentioned turning Journey:Escape into 'The Blast Off Girls'.. I'm trying to think of a game to hack into 'Two THousand Maniacs'. Hmmm... Maybe Jungle HUnt? The sequence where you're jumping over the boulders could be changed into jumping over barells. Heh heh heh.

[Gregory DG]

ALIEN!

 

Oh, wait... There was an ALIEN game, but it was a lot like Pac-Man...

[pocketmego]

There was a 20th Century Fox horror game prototype that was found a few years back based on a horror flick called The Entity.

 

More information here:

 

http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/entity/entity.htm

 

And like many 20th century fox games, it bore little resemblence to the film in question. i have the ROM, its not even scary or spooky.

 

-Ray