Increase tenfold as you never knew what terrors could be stumbled upon roaming As day turned into night in game time the chills would Not bad for a little-known,īut what made up for these pitfalls was a genuinely eerie, Received no less than 17,000 views on YouTube. The game’s varied death scenes created by my brother a couple of years ago has Group of hardcore fans dotted around globe fondly reminiscing about thisĬlassic adventure on retro computer game websites and forums. However the emergence of the World Wide Web soon revealed a small These unfortunate flaws (as well asĪn ill-advised, tacky marketing campaign featuring Elvira) no doubt contributedĬommercial flop, banished to $5 bargain bins (my brother scored an originalĬopy for that price several months later), and soon sinking into unfortunate Of the game were also hampered by careless bugs inexplicably not detectedĭuring the development and testing stages. I daresay that 99.9% of people who’ve playedĪble to complete it without at least some reliance on the walkthough (easilyįound via a quick Google search).
In addition to having to arrive at particular locationsĮxactly on time to advance story progression, another hindrance was the sheerĬomplexity of many of the puzzles. Killed outside the inn in a hit-and-run accident. The local inn, where literally upon five minutes of arrival a local man is Your character then arrives at your accommodation, We booted up the first disc in anticipationĪnd were thunderstruck by its audacious opening sequence – the town’s vicar, deliveringĪ sermon in church, is struck by a bolt of lightning, is engulfed byįlames.and then re-emerges from the inferno as THE DEVIL! (complete withĮar-splitting demonic roar).
More! I immediately begged my older brother to track down Personal Nightmare, and sure enough, aįew weeks later he triumphantly presented me with a copy of the game, whichĬomprised of a whopping 3 discs. (even by the authors) for children” only whetted my appetite for the game even Of course the warning at the end of the article, “ThereĪre some quite horrific happenings, and the game is certainly not recommended There’sĪlso a bunch of archetypal horror villains (vampire, witch, devil dog) thrown Villagers are and bringing them to justice for their horrific crimes. Himself somewhere in the town), but not before discovering who the possessed To defeat the power of the Devil by finding and eradicating him (he has ensconced
Rituals (shades of ‘The Wicker Man’ anyone?) The object of the game is for you Have also gone missing, presumably kidnapped to be used as sacrifices in said Several young girls from the area and neighbouring villages The influence of the Devil himself via possession, have been committing satanic Village where he grew up and discovers that several residents, who are under Intrigued by its storyline – the main character returns to the remote English Also, already being a horror fan at age 10, I was also I came across a review of Personal Nightmare,Īnd was immediately struck by its crisp, detailed graphics and stylish design Thumbing through a August 1989 issue of Computer + Video Games, One particular title has stuck with me to this day – a sadly long-forgotten Amongst the myriad of games I plowed through, Back when I was a kid in the late 1980’s, one of the most
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