Ah, the Fourth of July. For some reason in America it has become linked with outdoor grilling and the basest of food. Pork lips and assholes into an oft-kilter cylindrical type shape known as a “hot dog.” Sloppy Joes that taste as good as they look. Chicken and steaks that are burned on the outside […]
This week’s Nyogtha is rather a weird one. There’s no folklore. Just out and out insanity.
If you’ve been following my exploits for the last decade you know I’m been doing the whole “Folklore of Monsters” thing for almost 10 years now professionally/semi-professionally. In that time I’ve encountered some […]
Nyogtha Volume II, Issue XXXIX
Well, due to a snafu with uploading, I won’t be able to do my original column until next week. But not a problem. This is why we writers generally have a stockpile of filler columns sitting around. The original column will be up next week and involves a hilarious transcript of […]
Man it feels so different (and by different, I mean GOOD) to not be talking about video games anymore. I’m glad so many people enjoyed reading the countdown on both Inside Pulse and in my Livejournal, but I can’t tell you how ecstatic I am to be done talking about video games. I’ve been writing […]
#2. Clock Tower II (Clock Tower in North America)
Publisher: Human Entertaiment (Japan)/ASCII Entertainment (North America & Europe)
Developer: Human Entertainment
Systems Released On: Sony Playstation
Release Date: 12/13/1996 (Japan), 09/30/1997 (North America)
In the mountains of Romsdaaren, Norway, stands the Barrows Family Mansion, an unwholesome, brooding manor perched atop a large cliff. Home to the Barrows family for […]
#4 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Developer: The Dreamer’s Guild
Publisher: Cyberdreams, Acclaim
Written By: Harlan Ellison
Systems Released On: DOS
Release Date: 10/31/1995
Yes my friends, we are seeing an Acclaim title at #4. Good god almighty, if I hadn’t bothered to look at the box, I’d have laughed in your face had you suggested Acclaim […]
#6 Fatal Frame (Project Zero in Europe)
Publisher: Tecmo (USA and Japan) Wanadoo (Europe)
Developer: Tecmo
Systems Released On: Sony Playstation 2, Microsoft Xbox
Release Date: 03/04/2002 (PS2), 11/22/2002 (Xbox Director’s Cut)
Fatal Frame was a game I was salivating over since it was first announced. It was highly original and sounded freaky as hell. However, I saw no […]
#8. Koudelka
Developer: Sacnoth (Now called Nautilus)
Publisher: SNK/Atari (then under the Infogrames name)
Release Date: 11/30/1999
Systems Released on: Sony Playstation
As I said last week, the next game on the countdown would be the only one that made it on both the RPG and the Spooky Game countdowns. On the RPG countdown from 2004, Koudelka was the 9th […]
Ahoy-hoy! I’m back from a two week Eastern European vacation. And so I’m getting right back into the swing of things. Let’s crack open the top ten of the Horror/Terror game countdown and start showing you the very best of the best.
#10 Splatterhouse
Publisher: Namco
Developer: NEC
Systems Released On: Arcade, Turbo-Grafix 16, FM Towns, Tiger Handheld Release […]
Folklore
So far on the countdown I’ve been putting the folklore bits of the column either at the beginning or the end of the column, but as #12 on our list revolves around one of the most important unsolved murders in 20th Century American history, I thought I’d give you your history lesson right off the […]
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