Haunted House
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All you can see is a pair of eyes in the dark. That is you, wandering the empty mansion of the late Zachary Graves, and it is a brilliant piece of minimalism on the Atari 2600. Haunted House, programmed by James Andreasen and released by Atari in February 1982, turns the console's limits into atmosphere: rooms stay black until you strike a match, and the light shows only so much before you have to move on into the dark again.
Your task is to recover the three pieces of a magic urn, scattered at random through 24 rooms across four floors, and carry them back to the entrance. You can hold only one item at a time, which makes every choice matter. The master key opens locked doors on the harder settings, the scepter keeps most monsters from chasing you, and the urn pieces themselves have to be ferried home one way or another. Meanwhile vampire bats, tarantulas and a ghost drift through the halls, and in the trickiest variations a bat's touch knocks whatever you are carrying out of your hands and sends it off to another room. With nine lives and nine difficulty settings, learning the layout of the stairways and corridors becomes its own satisfying puzzle.
Critics have long pointed to Haunted House as one of the earliest examples of survival horror: limited resources, creeping dread, monsters you would rather avoid than fight. Atari has kept it alive through compilations like Atari 50 and follow-ups such as Haunted House: Cryptic Graves, but the 1982 cartridge is the original, and it is a perfect October game, a chance to see where console horror got its first footing.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1982
- Publisher
- Atari
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Haunted House is an Atari 2600 video game written by James Andreasen and published by Atari, Inc. in February 1982. The player, represented by a pair of eyes, must navigate the haunted mansion of the late Zachary Graves to recover the three pieces of an urn. The game has been identified as one of the earliest examples of the survival horror genre.
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Atari 2600
Haunted House
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Haunted House
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