Adventure game fact: The Secret Library Archive Project includes Night of the Tentacle, an AU version of Day of the Tentacle starring Razor, Chester, and Moonglow, the three other kids from the original design document.
Nebulous (Infocom, 1984).
Yuna Itoh, a Californian parapsychology student with a lifelong fascination of the supernatural, has found herself dealing with a crisis of faith. The countless personal investigations she has undertaken into haunts and horrors have always turned up empty, revealed to be nothing more then mistakes or fakery. Coupled with a lifetime of scepticism and even insults from her peers, she finds her belief waning, unable to shake the thought that the course of her life thus far has been a mistake. It’s in this bout of existential ennui that Yuna learns of- and becomes fixated with- a supposedly haunted estate in England that once belonged to the wealthy and prestigious Barnbellow family. As the rest of the country suffered during the Second World War, the Barnbellows continued to live comfortably and indulgently, with nary a care in the world. This peaceful ignorance was shattered entirely with the kidnapping and subsequent murder of the youngest child, Edward Barnbellow, a tragedy that wounded the clan and the local community alike, but none more so then the family matriarch Jennifer Barnbellow. For weeks on end she wailed in agony, crippled by despair with no attempts at aid soothing her. Even so, none could have foreseen how the story would end: an empty house full of corpses, blood streaked across the walls, and Jennifer having spirited away, never to be seen again. Tales speak of her spirit wandering the estate, wailing and crying for her beloved son. With the deadline for an important case study and accompanying thesis looming, Yuna comes to a decision; she decides to travel to England and visit the Barnbellow’s former home in person, ostensibly for her studies. However, deep down, she sees this as something of a moment of truth; one final test to determine whether or not forces beyond our understanding do exist. Yuna is going to get her answer, and it will change her world forever. Gonkaka is proud to present this promotional single for Nincom’s upcoming survival horror title Barnbellow’s Estate, due to be released October 2nd XX99. It is one of several intense themes intended to score moments when Yuna engages with nightmarish creatures she cannot beat and must instead escape.
I Hear You Run, I See You Hide (Pursuer Theme #1) [from “Barnbellow’s Estate”]
released June 30, 2019
composed by Decon Theed
cover designed by Decon Theed
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In Never Say Never Again, Super Villain Maximillain Largo challenges James Bond to a round of “Domination”, a competitive realtime strategy game that combines elements of Risk and Missile Command with betting and electrical shocks as feedback. The game uses a pair of screens on each player’s side to display information as well as a transparent display between them. The whole thing fits very well within the Architecture of Villains. It’s also interesting how frequently Risk-style war games occur. This is the third we’ve seen after Eschaton and Nuke ‘Em.
(Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a clip from the movie on YouTube otherwise I would’ve included it here.)
THE GHOST, 1983 (estimated) developed by Nintendo (I think). Even though I cleaned the cart’s contacts with a q-tip first, none of my Famicom games work anymore since I tried playing this.
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