halloween / spooky theme vic 20 games

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:58 pm

i am planning on having a multi-platform multi-computer halloween / spooky theme game night (yep a mouthful), in late october.

do you know of any vic 20 games that fall under this category?

i know of 'the count' and 'ghost manor', and i am thinking of popping in 'demon attack' for the hell of it, but that's all i know of

Post by **Jeff-20** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 12:01 am

Brian Ketterling had a really cool Skull program... I haven't been able to locate him in quite some time.

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 2:40 am

I suppose maze games like Sword of Fargoal or Temple of Apshai are much too cheerful for your Halloween theme? Right now I can't think of any real horror games. Many adventure games try to take on a spooky feel, but not so often they succeed in gripping the player (IMHO).

(Pac-Man is all about ghosts, though :-)

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 5:55 am

if i am throwing in demon attack, then pac man with his ghosts, should also make it in then!

i'll scoure the tape titles, and see if i can find something.

the 64 was easy to pick for!

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:36 am

Maybe Bewitched is more spooky than Pac-Man, although neither gives me the creeps. I can imagine you have a bigger selection on the C64 side, not only because it was commercially running for longer but also was released later when the industry had figured out what to use a computer for (if you see what I mean).

Too bad there is no Forbidden Forest on the VIC-20.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:04 am

There was a type in program from Compute magazine called Goodbye Charlie... it was about walking around a grave yard and avoiding tombstones...

the game isn't very good tho'.

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:37 am

Maybe it's time for another (Basic?) compo: write a creepy VIC-20 game before Halloween, which is two months away.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 1:59 pm

I've got a TAP I did of a text adventure called Nosferatu sitting on my HD here...

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:08 pm

would you like to supply a link to a .prg file of that for us?

greatly appreciated if you do!

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 3:42 am

I don't believe any emulator image of the game exists outside of the TAP I did for the author of the game itself. That's why he asked me to do it for him (along with some other adventures he'd written) from his originals. So it's TAP or nothing. I'll have a look for it, I'm sure he won't mind it being distributed...

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:23 am

Once working TAP, any other neccessary conversions can be done by third party (privately).

By the way, I remember a Basic listing in Commodore User (UK) for a game called "Dracula". It is on one of my floppies, and I could upload it if required. It is some maze game where you should find your way to the coffin before the crosses get you or something.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 11:24 am

Wasn't there a Frankenstein game for the vic as a type-in program?

hasseapa · Post by **hasseapa** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:06 am

I guess Halloween is over... However, besides several text adventures there is a Commodore tape game, Spectre, for 16k expanded Vic. As I remember, it was pretty rubbish, though, and probably written in Basic. I have a swedish review in front of me. They write about ghosts, apemen, and werewolves in a haunted hause. They gave it 10/10 but I remember playing it a while after thinking they were full of s**t. Perhaps, I didn't gave it enough of a try but the graphics were ugly and jerky.

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:09 am

quite a lot of time until the next Halloween, perhaps it would be good to have a list of games and perhaps a zip file of them all.

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:59 am

Didn't someone post a scanned copy of a USBORNE book called "Creepy Games" or something a few months ago? The whole book was BASIC type in programs alonga monster/horror theme. They were mostly multi-platform generic BASIC games with little graphics, though.