10 Video Games Based On Horror Movies You've Completely Forgotten About
9. Halloween
Halloween, one of cinema's most classic slasher movies arrived in 1978, terrifying audiences and critics alike. Fast forward five years and a video game based on that cultural phenomenon tried to do exactly the same thing - except it didn't, for many reasons.
Released onto the Atari 2600 in 1983, Halloween was produced by a studio known as Wizard Video Games, an entity of Wizard Video founded by none other than B-movie horror icon Charles Band.
Unlike the majority of home console games, this was a horror title aimed at adults and required you to play as a babysitter saving innocent children from the clutches of a knife-wielding serial killer. Note the use of the term serial killer, and not the name Michael Myers, because for some inane reason the game featured none of the movie's character names.
Notably, it featured a lot of blood, which is something significantly scant in the movie on which it is based. Sadly, this use of pixelated violence was too much for civilisation in the early 1980s and it prompted concern and outrage amongst the general public. The subsequent controversy surrounding the game badly affected sales, and it is now a rare commodity in the retro gaming community. So, be prepared to fork out a bucket load to legitimately play this long-forgotten piece of horror history.