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name	publisher(developer)	year	description
Haunted House	Scholastic	1984	[b]Compilation releases:[/b] - Tales of Mystery
Mystery at Pinecrest Manor	Scholastic	1984	[b]Compilation releases:[/b] - Tales of Mystery
Bad-Bad	author	1986
Uninvited	Mindscape (Icom Simulations)	1987
La Casa del Terror	Infodisc	1988
Psycho	Box Office (Starsoft Development Laboratories)	1988
Maniac Mansion	Lucasfilm Games	1988	[33]* [49]* [22]* [1]* [52]***Ever since the meteor landed, strange things have been sighted at Dr. Fred's old mansion. Disembodied tentacles hopping around. Chainsaws in the kitchen. Plants with unusual appetites. And odd glow from the swimming pool. And now, sweet Sandy the cheerleader is in Dr. Fred's clutches. So round up your pals, take a deep breath, and get ready for the weirdest, funniest adventure of your life. - Just point 'n' click... no typing ever! - High resolution graphics and great sound effects. - Meet all sorts of zany characters
Mortville Manor	Lankhor	1989
Hugo's House of Horrors	Gray Design Associates	1990
Murder	U.S. Gold (Kingsley Harrison)	1990
The Last Half of Darkness	Softlab	1990	The version history of this game is rather complicated and needs explanation. First there was a normal 16 color high-resolution EGA version. The same game also got a graphically enhanced version which read "The Last Half of Darkness VGA" on the title screen. By many this is called the EGA+ version however, because it doesn't change color and resolution, but just adds graphics in the former black space between the game windows. A year later a real VGA remake of the game was made which not only had 256 colors and different resolution but also different puzzles and overall easier difficulty level. This remake has its own entry in UVL [game=#106969]here[/game].
Horror Zombies from the Crypt	Millennium Interactive (Astral Software)	1991
The Last Half of Darkness	SoftLab	1991	This remake appeared already about a year after the original [game=#154273]The Last Half of Darkness[/game]. The remake features 256 color VGA graphics and easier gameplay. (Actually I think that the 16 color high-resolution EGA graphics of the original game are more atmospheric in this case; but each to his own.)***Back in da Day, this was a kool game; I just played it again at age 37 for the first time in over a decade...Still appreciate it! The most awesome thing about this game was a voice that said "Welcome to the Last Half of Darkness" thru your PC speaker!! very hitech at the time! [SinisterDarkness]
Alone in the Dark	Infogrames;Interplay (I-Motion Interactive)	1992	[media=youtube]9lWaQe8LPW0[/media]***A suspicious suicide. A chilling curse. A malevolent power. And a wicked dark secret. This is Derceto, legendary Louisiana mansion - where, against your better judgement, you're drawn into a world of shadows to explore the darker side of Jeremy Hartwood's imagination. Despite a paralyzing sense of personal danger, your quest for truth drives you to investigate the old house. But, you didn't know that by entering Derceto, you'd be plunged into the daily nightmare that was Jeremy Hartwood's life. You weren't prepared for the torturous howls that resound from deep within its halls. You didn't foresee the shadowy corridors that seemingly have no end. You couldn't anticipate the brooding, gloom-filled rooms, the pervasive weight of dread, the heavy sense of evil that fills the atmosphere and the ver house itself. Had you known, you might have refused your task. But alas, you accepted, and now you must make your way through this spine-tingling adventure alone ... and in the dark. [Box blurb]
Alone in the Dark 2	Infogrames (Interplay)	1993	Alone in the Dark 2 you take the role of Edward Carnby, one of the two main characters in the original Alone in the Dark. After his overnight ordeal in the haunted mansion of Derceto and his defeat of the undead Cthulian sorceror Pregzt, Carnby has gained something of a reputation as "the supernatural detective" (sounds a lot better than "the reptile", his original nick). Carnby is soon called upon to investigate a bootlegger named One Eyed Jack after an old detective college name Stryker attributes Jack to the kidnapping of young Grace Saunders. Stryker attempts to infiltrate Jack's dilapidated mansion of Hell's Kitchen and rescue the girl, only to disappear himself. That's where Carnby comes in. Carnby soon learns that Jack and his gansters are really 15th century pirates who gained immortality after Jack joined forces with Elizabeth Jarret, a Voodoo witch. However the dark magic which keeps them immortal also requires Jack and his crew to regularly make human sacrifices (which explains Grace's kidnapping). Carnby must battle his way through Hell's Kitchen and Jack's army of tommygun wielding gansters, searching for a way to break the spell and make them stay dead.*Original floppy version [22]* [59]* [37]*[media=youtube]gkHXD531Ut8[/media]
The 7th Guest	Virgin Games (Trilobyte)	1993
The Legacy	Microprose;Piko Interactive (Magnetic Scrolls)	1993
The 11th Hour	Virgin (Trilobyte)	1995	In the 70 desolate years since the horrifying murders chronicled in THE 7th GUEST, the town of Harley has been ominously silent. Only when journalist Robin Morales vanishes while investigating the rotting abandoned mansion of legendary toy maker Henry Stauf, do events resurrect the malignant past. As Robin's colleague and lover, Carl Denning, you come to the ravaged estate to find her. What you uncover in its decaying chambers embroils the entire town in a deadly legacy of madness. With over an hour of live action video in The 11th Hour: the sequel to The 7th Guest, the renowned developers at TRILOBYTE have created the most powerfully graphic cinematic challenge ever. A wide array of games, puzzles and quests weaves intricately into a time - bending, contemporary adult mystery. Only the deepest horrors of the mind could spread such terror in the night. Every moment is riddled with clues. Three mysterious women are your only guides. Will you ever find Robin and unearth Stauf's fate at last? Or seal your own forever? It all must come together at The 11th Hour.*** [84]

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