Games Featured in "From Ants to Zombies: Six Decades of Video Game Horror" (Bitmap Books, 2023)
Book by Alexander Chatziioannou
"Scary games may have entered the mainstream with the likes of Resident Evil and Silent Hill in the PlayStation era but interactive entertainment has always been drawn to its darker side. From Ants to Zombies is a showcase for the remarkable range horror gaming has achieved, across six decades, from the 1970s to the 2020s, and over 70 hardware platforms, from the ZX Spectrum to the Xbox Series X."
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Games listed in book order, which divides them by theme. The thirteen themes are:
- Space Horror
- Haunted Mansions
- Terror of the Abyss
- Dark Forests
- Relentless Pursuers
- Wayward Children
- Universal Monsters
- Nature Unleashed
- Text Adventures
- Interactive Movies
- Rail Shooters
- Survival Horror
- New Retro
Games not found on IGDB/Backloggd:
- The Wreck of the B.S.M. Pandora (Simulations Publications/Apple II/1981)
- House of Usher (CrystalWare/Atari 400/800/1980)
- Terror at Selachii Bay (Mike Shanto & Steve Lay/TRS-80/1980)
- The Screecher (Klei Entertainment/PC/2013)
- Nightmare Gallery (Synergistic Software/Apple II/1982)
- The Last Vampire (The Shaw Brothers/ZX Spectrum/1990)
- The House of Seven Gables (Greg Hassett/Apple II/1978)
- A Very, Very, Very Scary House (Anna Anne Anthropy/PC/2013)
- Le Pacte (Eric Chahi/Amstrad CPC/1986)
- Inner Demons (Scareware/Commodore Amiga/1994)
- The Outbreak (SilkTricky/PC/2008)
- 13 Ghosts (Software Affair/TRS-80/1983)
- Chitin Creek (DontFightDucks/PC/2014)
- The Shadow Over Hawksmill (Icon64/Commodore 64/2020)
"Scary games may have entered the mainstream with the likes of Resident Evil and Silent Hill in the PlayStation era but interactive entertainment has always been drawn to its darker side. From Ants to Zombies is a showcase for the remarkable range horror gaming has achieved, across six decades, from the 1970s to the 2020s, and over 70 hardware platforms, from the ZX Spectrum to the Xbox Series X."
Buy the book here.
Games listed in book order, which divides them by theme. The thirteen themes are:
- Space Horror
- Haunted Mansions
- Terror of the Abyss
- Dark Forests
- Relentless Pursuers
- Wayward Children
- Universal Monsters
- Nature Unleashed
- Text Adventures
- Interactive Movies
- Rail Shooters
- Survival Horror
- New Retro
Games not found on IGDB/Backloggd:
- The Wreck of the B.S.M. Pandora (Simulations Publications/Apple II/1981)
- House of Usher (CrystalWare/Atari 400/800/1980)
- Terror at Selachii Bay (Mike Shanto & Steve Lay/TRS-80/1980)
- The Screecher (Klei Entertainment/PC/2013)
- Nightmare Gallery (Synergistic Software/Apple II/1982)
- The Last Vampire (The Shaw Brothers/ZX Spectrum/1990)
- The House of Seven Gables (Greg Hassett/Apple II/1978)
- A Very, Very, Very Scary House (Anna Anne Anthropy/PC/2013)
- Le Pacte (Eric Chahi/Amstrad CPC/1986)
- Inner Demons (Scareware/Commodore Amiga/1994)
- The Outbreak (SilkTricky/PC/2008)
- 13 Ghosts (Software Affair/TRS-80/1983)
- Chitin Creek (DontFightDucks/PC/2014)
- The Shadow Over Hawksmill (Icon64/Commodore 64/2020)
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