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| | | | | | | | | Haunted House - Atari 2600 |
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| Joystick control: | | Player 1: | Player 2: | | joystick | ↑↓←→ | TGFH | | trigger | Spacebar | A | | turbo | Del | . | | RESET | F12 | F12 | | SELECT | F11 | F11 | | Pause | Alt+P | Alt+P | | black-white / color mode: F2 | | paddle / joystick mode: Alt+L |
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| | Other platforms: | Unfortunately, this game is currently available only in this version. Be patient :-) |
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| Game info: | 
box cover | Game title: | Haunted House | | Console: | Atari 2600 | | Author (released): | Atari (1981) | | Genre: | Action, Adventure | Mode: | Single-player | | Design: | James Andreasen | | Music: | | | Game manual: | manual.pdf | File size: | 1051 kB | | Download: | not available (stream only) | Game size: | 4 kB | | Recommended emulator: | Stella |
| | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: | Haunted House is a 1982 adventure game programmed by James Andreasen for the Atari 2600 and published by Atari, Inc. The player controls a character presented by a pair of eyes peering in the dark as they explore a mansion seeking out parts of an urn to return to the entrance.  | | Haunted House (Atari 2600) |
The game world is populated by roaming enemies including vampire bats, tarantulas, and a ghost. Haunted House was among the first games to use player-controlled scrolling between large portions of the visual space.
Critics have called Haunted House one of the earliest examples of the survival horror genre due to its elements of horror themes, limited item management, and a variety of monsters. Other studies of the genre have suggested that the game lacked the specific elements that later games such as Alone in the Dark (1992) and Resident Evil (1996) had to establish it as a unique game genre.
Haunted House is a single-player adventure game in which the player's goal is to recover three pieces of a magic urn that are randomly placed throughout 24 rooms of a mansion and return them to the entrance. The items and some areas within the game are revealed to player via matches which the player can ignite and blow out. The magazine How to Win at Video Games described Haunted House as a 'storyline' game, comparing its gameplay as being similar to that of Atari's previous games Superman (1979) and Adventure (1980). Tim Onosko of The Capital Times also compared Haunted House to the two previous games, describing it as an adventure game that requires players to learn rules and requirements and gathering items to reach a goal as they play.
The player has nine lives to attempt this task. The player can only collect one object at a time, and can swap between two objects by touching another one. The mansion is a set of 24 rooms between four floors. The player can traverse through different doors that ascend or descend a level, but none permit the player to go in both directions. Throughout the mansion, the player may encounter such enemies as vampire bats, tarantulas and a ghost, which cause the player to lose a life upon contact.
The game has nine settings of varying difficulty. For example, setting 1 has a room where walls around the room are lit by matches while all others are completely dark. Further challenges introduce locked doors, which require a master key that is also hidden within the mansion. Other difficulties add extra enemies and enemy abilities such as the bats stealing a carried item and placing it at a random location around the mansion. A scepter can be found inside the mansion as a collectable item, which prevent enemies from chasing the player on most levels of difficulty. The ghost will still give chase on higher difficulty levels regardless of whether the player has the scepter or not. More details about this game can be found on Wikipedia.org. | | For fans and collectors: | | Find this game on video server YouTube.com or Vimeo.com. | | Buy original game or Atari 2600 console on Amazon.com or eBay.com. | Find digital download of this game on GOG or Steam. | | | | Videogame Console: |  This version of Haunted House was designed for Atari 2600, which was commercially very successful video game console of second generation produced by Atari from 1977 to 1992. It was the first console that used removable memory modules with games. At the time of its greatest fame, more than 30 million units of this console were sold for about $ 200 a piece. To date, the game library for this console contains nearly 1,000 original games. More information about the Atari 2600 can be found here. |
Recommended Game Controllers: | You can control this game easily by using the keyboard of your PC (see the table next to the game). However, for maximum gaming enjoyment, we strongly recommend using a USB joystick that you simply plug into the USB port of your computer. If you do not have a joystick, buy a suitable USB controller on Amazon or AliExpress or in some of your favorite online stores. | | | | Available online emulators: | 5 different online emulators are available for Haunted House. These emulators differ not only in the technology they use to emulate old games, but also in support of various game controllers, multiplayer mode, mobile phone touchscreen, emulation speed, absence or presence of embedded ads and in many other parameters. For maximum gaming enjoyment, it's important to choose the right emulator, because on each PC and in different Internet browsers, the individual emulators behave differently. The basic features of each emulator available for this game Haunted House are summarized in the following table:
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