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Friday the 13th
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Complete in box: the cartridge, the manual and the box, all original; anything beyond that is included only if you can see it in the photos. The box shows moderate shelf wear but is structurally intact, and the manual shows some light wear. Look over the photos for condition, packaging and details. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
Somewhere across Crystal Lake a cabin full of children is screaming, a warning flashes on screen, and the clock is already running. That frantic dash to reach the cabin before Jason does is the heartbeat of Friday the 13th on the NES, a 1989 LJN release developed by Atlus and loosely built on the first film's camp setting. It is one of the strangest horror games of the 8-bit era, and that strangeness is exactly why people still talk about it.
You don't control a single hero. Six camp counselors, George, Mark, Paul, Laura, Crissy and Debbie, take turns on patrol, and each one runs and fights differently, so picking who goes where becomes a running strategic decision. The paths around the lake are crawling with zombies, wolves and crows, and the counselors start out flinging rocks before tracking down better weapons such as a knife, machete, axe or torch. Lighting the fireplaces in the large cabins and keeping an eye on the map are just as important as fighting, because when Jason strikes, the nearest counselor has to get there fast.
The encounters with Jason are what everyone remembers. Inside the cabins the view shifts and he lunges straight at you, and the game tracks your progress over three days, each one making him tougher and faster. There is also the famously eerie confrontation in the cave with a floating head that has become part of the game's legend. The difficulty is brutal, the rules are only half explained, and the chiptune theme that loops while you wander the trails is relentlessly ominous.
Reviewers were not kind to it, and it has spent decades as a punchline in retro circles, but it has also earned a real cult following. Jason's purple-and-teal outfit from this cartridge became so recognizable that later Friday the 13th games revived it as a retro look. Few licensed NES games have a reputation this big, and fewer still capture a slasher film's sense of helpless, sprinting panic as well as this odd, stubborn little game.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1989
- Publisher
- LJN
- Developer
- Atlus
- Genre
- Beat 'em up, Adventure
- Players
- Single player
About the game
The game is a 2D action horror based on the first movie of popular horror franchise Friday the 13th. The game casts the player as one of six camp counselors (three girls or three boys) at the Camp Crystal Lake and the player´s main task is to defend the children in the cabins situated all around the lake while slowly killing Jason. The cabins are frequently attacked by the mass murderer and the player must get to the attacked cabin within the specific time limit otherwise Jason kills the children. When all the camp counselors or all the children are dead, the game is over. Jason can attack the player outside cabins too, on the pathways when exploring. There are three cycles meaning, Jason must be killed three times (every time Jason is stronger and quicker) to beat the game.
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