These were perhaps inspired by the cult success of horror games like Splatterhouse (1988) which, as compared to the pixel horror games released just a mere few years ago-such as Halloween (1983) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1983)-would be considered downright nightmare-inducing. Mistress of the Dark and The Jaws of Cerberus upped the ante with its carnage, with images of bodies crushed by falling debris, and corpses that revealed crimson red flesh and tendon. It was released digitally by Adventure Soft on Jon GOG.com. In Personal Nightmare, faces were depicted with meticulous detail, with shadows accentuating the sunken cheeks and hollow sockets of its demons. Personal Nightmare is a horror adventure game developed and published by Horror Soft for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS in 1989. In contrast, Horror Soft’s titles released towards the late ‘80s and early ‘90s were pretty graphics intensive.
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Related: Remembering Deus Ex: The Fall, One Of The Worst Ports In The History Of PC Gaming Adventure Soft is a British video game developer and publisher established by Mike Woodroffe, initially as an importer and reseller of Adventure International games as Adventure International (UK), and later using the names Horror Soft, Adventuresoft UK and Headfirst Productions. Even so, its graphics-and other violent horror games at that time-were gory but not particularly intricate, probably owing to the technologies behind the consoles back then. One such title is Chiller (1986), a game that’s essentially a torture simulator, in which you’re presented with four shooting galleries and a variety of ways to dismember the bodies on screen. At that time, horror games were taking a turn towards violence, which was unprecedented before that period. As Horror Soft, Waxworks was the final game the developer released, with the title preceded by a handful of titles: Personal Nightmare (1989), as well as two games based on horror icon Elvira-Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1990) and Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus (1991). But the gore of Waxworks-as well as the studio’s other horror fare-was not just notable for its violence it was also part of the studio’s attempts to fully exploit the graphical capabilities of consoles like the Amiga, especially when text-based games were dwindling in terms of popularity at the same time.
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