DJSCheddar
Haunted House 1982
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December 28, 2022
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(played as part of ATARI 50)
Inventive and groundbreaking in the same vein as ADVENTURE but not quite as grand. Managing to make a tense, claustrophobic exploration game on the 2600 deserves serious praise - it certainly seems like a big outlier in the system's library. Unfortunately, it does become less exciting the more you play it, ending up as more of a memorization sort of thing if you want to succeed. Not so spooky at that point. Minor gripe, though - this is a seriously impressive game for the time. No one was trying stuff like this back then, let alone succeeding.
Inventive and groundbreaking in the same vein as ADVENTURE but not quite as grand. Managing to make a tense, claustrophobic exploration game on the 2600 deserves serious praise - it certainly seems like a big outlier in the system's library. Unfortunately, it does become less exciting the more you play it, ending up as more of a memorization sort of thing if you want to succeed. Not so spooky at that point. Minor gripe, though - this is a seriously impressive game for the time. No one was trying stuff like this back then, let alone succeeding.