Nothing scarier than a scratched disc
Nicely nicely nicely, it is virtually Halloween once more and that is our spooky present for you. After masking standalone horror video games on 8- and 16-bit {hardware} in earlier Octobers, this time we’re speaking in regards to the CD-ROM period. Which means elevated storage capability, digital audio, and actual dwell actors making all the pieces additional scary.
Bob Mackey sits atop the internet hosting throne once more, welcoming visitors Kaye Ross and Michael “Slowbeef” Sawyer to rank these early-90s frights primarily based on a “creepy quotient.” That is proper, we’re assigning NUMBERS to ART and that is a nightmare.
Description: Greetings, you rancid retro revenants! We’re knee-deep within the spookiest of seasons, which suggests it is time as soon as once more to crack open the crypt and gaze in fright at a collection of horror video games that attempted their finest to scare our pants off oh so many a long time in the past. Up to now few years, we have lined NES and 16-bit video games, so now it is time to transfer onto the world of multimedia: the place pre-rended ghouls and washed up actors alike did their finest to make horror thrive in an period past floppies. On this week’s episode, be a part of Bob Mackey, Kaye Ross (of Duckfeed.television) and Michael Sawyer because the crew makes an attempt to understand the artwork of faux blood and FMV.
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