Horror NES Video Games
Horror NES video games
Missing from IMDB:
Missing from IMDB:
- Dr. Chaos (1987)
- Phantom Fighter (1988)
- Haunted: Halloween ‘85
- Haunted: Halloween ‘86 - The Curse of Possum
- Youkai Club
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- The famous painter Mamiya Ichirou lived many years in a secluded mansion, and rumor says there are some valuable frescos to find inside. Our investigators Kazuo, Akiko, Taro, Asuka, and Emi decide to take some pictures of the frescos. However, upon entering the mansion, a ghost-like figure of Mamiya appears and threatens them. After this, they find themselves trapped in the mansion. The heroes must now find a way out of the mansion, not forgetting the frescos they came there for, and the destiny of an earlier investigation group that has disappeared under mysterious circumstances.70 (Famitsu)
JPN turn-based RPG
Adaptation of Sweet Home (1989) film
Precursor to Resident Evil and survival horror genre
Capcom - DirectorHitoshi AkamatsuIn 1476, prior to "Castlevania (1986)", Simon Belmont's ancestor Trevor Belmont teams up with the freedom fighter Grant Danasty, the mage Sypha Belnades and Dracula's son Alucard to vanquish Dracula who begins a genocide against humanity.75 (Famitsu)
Side-scrolling platformer
Konami - DirectorHitoshi AkamatsuA curse inflicted upon Simon Belmont seven years earlier in the wake of Dracula's death affects his body. The only way to lift the curse is for Simon to gather the scattered body parts of Dracula and burn them where his castle once stood.70 (Famitsu)
Metroidvania side-scrolling action RPG
Konami - DirectorHitoshi AkamatsuIn 1691, Simon Belmont, descendant of a legendary vampire hunter, enters the castle of Count Dracula to destroy him when he suddenly reappears hundred years after Simon's ancestor vanquished him.85 (Famitsu)
Side-scrolling platformer
Konami - DirectorRon GilbertA meteor crashes into Dr. Fred Edison's front yard and takes control over him. When Fred kidnaps Sandy, a college teenager, her boyfriend Dave Miller and his friends plan to break into the mansion and save her.83
Point-and-click graphic adventure
Lucasfilm Games (1987 PC), LucasArts (1988 NES) - DirectorBrett SperryA teen sets out searching the houses on Elm Street for Freddy Krueger's bones. Once they are all collected, they must be thrown into the high school furnace to destroy Freddy once and for all.4-player multitap local co-op campaign
- Alien Syndrome is a 1987 arcade game released by Sega. It runs on Sega System 16 hardware. The user plays as either Ricky and Mary rescuing hostages within a set time limit while blasting aliens. There are numerous weapons and two players can play simultaneously.2-player local co-op campaign
- DirectorTokuro FujiwaraA long time ago, in a place called the Ghoul Realm, there was a young ghoul warrior, a gargoyle named Firebrand from the town of Etruria, who set off on a journey to unravel the mystery of The Black Light.
- A knight, named Sir Arthur, must defeat zombies, ogres, demons, cyclops, dragons and other monsters in order to rescue Princess Prin Prin, who has been kidnapped by Satan, king of Demon World.
- DirectorShirô MurataWarlock sends out his henchman while the benevolent Vampire and Monster (of Frankenstein), shrunken by an evil spell, are watching TV at the home of Jack, a lazy, girl-crazy teenager who has taken them in. The two must battle through the house outside on the streets, in the sewer, at a construction site, through a Chinese restaurant, and finally through monster mountain. Major foes include Spring-Heeled Jack, Bigfoot, Kraken, Gremlin, Medusa, and Warlock.
- An elderly wizard enters the subterranean dungeon the Labyrinth of Eternity Using magic, wits, and items acquired along the way he descends through 8 deadly levels in order to rescue his mentor Mordamir.
- Ghosts/demons have taken over Cool School High. They have turned the teachers and football team into demons. To make matters worse, they have kidnapped Samantha Pompom, the head cheerleader. The player assumes the role of Spike O'Hara as he tries to defeat the ghouls and rescue Samantha.
- Uninvited is a haunted house "point-and-click" adventure game developed originally for the Macintosh by ICOM Simulations released in 1986 by Mindscape.Point-and-click
- The "last of a great line of hero-kings" is charged with the task of saving the world by defeating the Warlock Lord, who is attempting to summon up the demon Behemoth out of Hell.Point-and-click
- DirectorYoshio SakamotoSatoru OkadaBounty hunter Samus Aran descends below the planet Zebes to infiltrate the labyrinthine Space Pirate base and hunt down the deadly, life-sucking species known as the Metroids.
- The first Splatterhouse game to be released on a home console featuring the usual mayhem.Parody of Splatterhouse (1988)
Beat ‘em up platformer
Now Production - DirectorGsx SugaVideo game adaptation of the movie Ghostbusters II. Peter, Ray, Egon, Winston, and Louis bust ghosts across six stages as they protect Dana's son Oscar from Vigo the Carpathian, a 16th century tyrant and sorcerer who wishes to be reborn in Oscar's body so that he can rule the world.
- Alien³ is a side-scrolling action game based on the 1992 David Fincher movie. You assume the role of Ripley who arrives at the prison planet of Fury 161 and finds the planet infested by Xenomorph Runners. Equipped with Colonial Marine weaponry to defend yourself, in each of 20 levels, you have to rescue all the trapped prisoners and then make your way to the exit, while fighting through hordes of Xenomorphs.
- Swamp Thing is a platform video game for the NES and Game Boy. Based on the animated series of the same name, of the DC Comics superhero character Swamp Thing. It was published by THQ and released in December 1992.
- Loosely based on Jaws (1975) and its sequels, the player must defeat various sharks, jellyfish and manta rays.
- The 8-bit Nintendo/Sega version of "Bram Stoker's Dracula" is a 2D side-scrolling platform game, which was released for the NES, Game Boy, Game Gear, and Master System. The plot of the game is loosely based on the film, as Jonathan Harker has to fight his way through the day-time and night-time of various levels in Transylvania and London in order to defeat Dracula.
- StarsMarc NolesFriday the 13th the video game is a horror adventure game where the object of the game is to save kids of the camp and battle Jason.