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An early survival horror game released by Riverhillsoft for the 3DO in 1994. It was the first fully 3D survival horror game, featured an early cel-shaded art style for the characters, and revolved around surviving traps and solving puzzles rather than fighting any enemies.
A Living Books educational game for kids.
Explore the ancient Japanese city of Kyoto and attempt to survive the horrors within in this eerie point-and-click adventure for Windows and Mac computers.
A platformer starring a magical cat.
An early first-person shooter developed exclusively for the 3DO. Explore a haunted mansion filled with evil spirits to restore a magical talisman that banishes them!
Mansion of Hidden Souls is an adventure/puzzle game for the Sega CD, not to be confused with The Mansion of Hidden Souls for the Sega Saturn, which is the sequel.
Alone in the Dark 2 is the sequel to Alone in the Dark and features the same mixture of cinematic action sequences as well as minor puzzle solving. The game is part of the original Alone in the Dark trilogy as developed by Infogrames Entertainment
Crazy clay-based characters beat the clay out of each other in the first-ever claymation fighting game.
An action platformer developed by Natsume and published by Banalex featuring characters from the popular early 90s manga and anime series, Ghost Sweeper Mikami.
An action RPG for the Super Nintendo and the second game in the Seiken Densetsu series. Secret of Mana can be played by up to three players simultaneously, and is widely regarded as one of the system's finest games.
Don the "Terror Mask" on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive one final time to save Rick's wife and son from certain gruesome death in Splatterhouse 3.
Widely considered to be the CD-ROM's first "killer app", The 7th Guest was a technical marvel that changed the face of adventure gaming and set the stage for Myst.
A horror themed side-scrolling action game that stars Johnny Dash, who rescues animals and avoids monsters.
Mario's second platforming adventure on Game Boy introduces the evil Wario, who has taken over Mario's castle in his absence. Mario must gather the six golden coins scattered throughout Mario Land to reopen the castle gates and defeat his twisted counterpart.
Players are tasked with entering four historical periods with the goal of defeating their evil twin brother.
Widely considered to be the first survival horror game to use polygonal graphics. Initially released on the PC by Interplay, and developed by Infogrames, in 1992, Alone in the Dark would go down as a historical landmark in video gaming history.
An educational game in which the player must rescue words stolen by the evil Gruzzles.
Horror themed adventure game developed by Chunsoft in 1992 that was the first entry in the company's influential Sound Novel series.
Sequel to the 1988 game Dangerous Dave. Features updated graphics, eight levels with various traps and monsters.
A horizontal shoot 'em up based on the hit Disney cartoon featuring characters inspired by The Jungle Book. Part of Capcom's series of Disney licensed games from the late 80s and early 90s.
One of the few launch titles of the SNES (and bundled with the system in North America and Europe), the fifth main game in the Super Mario series brings the Mario brothers into the mysterious Dinosaur Land. It marks the first appearance of Mario's dinosaur companions, known as Yoshi.
Grimblood, Mike Singleton's venture into a "Cludo" type game for the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga.
Adventures in the Magic Kingdom is a Disney-licensed action/adventure game from Capcom.
Ghostbusters for Sega Genesis is an action platformer. Guide squat, cartoony versions of the Caucasian Ghostbusters through six haunted levels.
Hugo's House of Horrors is a classic DOS adventure game developed by Gray Design Associates. After the beautiful Penelope is kidnapped by fiendish ghouls and taken to a haunted house, her boyfriend Hugo must enter the spooky home and rescue her!
A game based the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" slasher film series in which the player must collect Freddy Krueger's bones and try to kill him once and for all.
Released in 1989, Sweet Home is quite possibly the first survival horror, or console horror RPG. A small team enters a haunted house to study the deceased owner's frescoes, only to become trapped by the angered spirits within. It inspired Resident Evil, the game that established the survival horror genre. Sweet Home can also be considered an early immersive sim.
A light-hearted horror-themed NES platformer from Bandai.
The Perils of Rosella is the fourth title in Sierra's King's Quest series. The story returns focus to the now gravely ill King Graham and his daughter Rosella's quest to save him from death.
An action game created by Casio for the MSX in which the player character searches a house infested with Youkai: Mischievous Japanese spirits. Irem later published an enhanced version for the Famicom Disk System.
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