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Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse is the third chapter in the Castlevania series created by Konami. The horror platformer was released in December 1989 for the NES. The game is set ...
Year: 1989 Genre: Platformer
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Sweet Home is a survival horror roleplaying game produced and published by Capcom for Famicom in 1989. Although it was released exclusively for Japan, it received an excellent translation for English-speaking players.
Year: 1989 Genre: Role Playing
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Castlevania, released in 1987 in North America for the NES, marked the beginning of one of Konami’s most iconic franchises. Designed by Hitoshi Akamatsu (as later confirmed throu...
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Ghostbusters (Genesis version) is a side-scrolling platformer featuring the heroes of the 1984 movie. SEGA released the game in 1990. This title is different from the Activision ve...
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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Castlevania: Bloodlines, released in 1994 for the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis, marked the iconic franchise’s only appearance on SEGA’s 16-bit console. Konami developed and publishe...
Year: 1994 Genre: Platformer
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Shivers is a horror point-and-click graphic adventure. Sierra On-Line produced and released the game in 1995 as a PC exclusive. Although it had a foray into the world of graphic ad...
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Dark Seed 2 is a horror point-and-click adventure based on the work of the artist H. R. Giger. The game was created by Cyberdreams and released in 1995 for Windows 3.x, three years later the release of the first Dark Seed.
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Fright Night is a game released by MicroDeal in 1988, based on the 1985 horror/comedy film "Fright Night". Good graphics and excellent music by David Whittaker, but gameplay-wise, the title is not very original.
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Vampire Killer is a videogame created by Konami for MSX computers and released in 1986. It's been defined as an alternative version of Castlevania, released one month before, for the Famicom.
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Weird Dreams is an action-adventure created by James Hutchby and Herman Serrano for the Atari ST and released by Rainbird in 1989. Later it was ported to Amiga, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS.
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Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King is a platform game created by Tose for the Game Boy Advance and released in 2005. The story told in the game precedes the events of Tim Burton's famous holiday horror film.
Year: 2005 Genre: Platformer
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Uninvited is a graphic adventure created by ICOM Simulations in 1986 for Macintosh, using the MacVenture engine. This eerie adventure showcased the studio’s knack for atmospheric...
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Hugo's House of Horrors is an adventure game developed by Gray Design Associates and published in 1990 for PC MS-DOS. The mechanic resembles Sierra-style adventures (such as King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown).
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Cauldron II: The Pumpkin Strikes Back is a horror platformer created by Palace Software and released for the Commodore 64 in 1986. The game was also ported to ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC.
Year: 1986 Genre: Platformer
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