Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc
Article #82464Re: Console gamers, know the roots of survival horror games: Infogrames ALONE IN THE DARK on PC floppy disks
From: Ajay Tanwar
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 23:00
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 23:00
26 lines
2625 bytes
2625 bytes
"stu" <yakum...@gmail.com> thought that a good way to threaten somebody was to light a stick of dynamite, then call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone and say: > i remember survival horror games as being friday the 13th on the > c64 predating alone in the dark and its wildass camera angles by > many years... > > there was also halloween and texas chainsaw massacre for the atari > 2600...... spaltterhouse in the arcades.... The Friday the 13th game I remember on the Commodore 64 was just a simple top down wander through the woods with randomly placed items and no narrative. Hardly a precursor to Alone in the Dark. As far as cinematic horror goes, the first I can recall is Project: Firestart for the C64. Limited ammo, numerous aliens, having to explore and exploit the environment, gruesome cutscenes (well, as gruesome as you can get with 16 colors). Excellent game, but I never managed to finish it. -- Ajay Tanwar | ajta...@yahoo.com "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." -Despair.com
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<Xns97C4B720B5E78ajtanwaryahoocom@207.115.17.102>Path:
mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsdst02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr21.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!cf467125!not-for-mailReferences:
<1147665409.104690.148660@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <20gg62tf0mc85shj7op5ooe535ignruhso@4ax.com> <1147685661.591740.152100@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1147694012.667210.96530@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsdst02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr21.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!cf467125!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,alt.games.starcraft,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc Subject: Re: Console gamers, know the roots of survival horror games: Infogrames ALONE IN THE DARK on PC floppy disks From: Ajay Tanwar <ajta...@yahoo.com> References: <1147665409.104690.148660@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <20gg62tf0mc85shj7op5ooe535ignruhso@4ax.com> <1147685661.591740.152100@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1147694012.667210.96530@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Organization: Your Company Message-ID: <Xns97C4B720B5E78ajtanwaryahoocom@207.115.17.102> Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 Lines: 26 NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.70.203.179 X-Complaints-To: ab...@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr21.news.prodigy.com 1147734006 ST000 65.70.203.179 (Mon, 15 May 2006 19:00:06 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 19:00:06 EDT X-UserInfo1: FKPO@MONTBSQBQT[OROD]_\@VR]^@B@MCPWZKB]MPXHJUZ]CDVW[AKK[J\]^HVKHG^EWZHBLO^[\NH_AZFWGN^\DHNVMX_DHHX[FSQKBOTS@@BP^]C@RHS_AGDDC[AJM_T[GZNRNZAY]GNCPBDYKOLK^_CZFWPGHZIXW@C[AFKBBQS@E@DAZ]VDFUNTQQ]FN Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 23:00:06 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit