From Freddy to Jason to Michael, we're taking a look at the times horror icons appeared in video games.They’ve leapt off the silver screen into our nightmares, but in recent years the big icons of horror cinema have made the jump to video games.
The 2000’s saw Rob Zombie take a stab at the 'Halloween' franchise, and as was the style at the time, a Flash game was released to promote the 2007 'Halloween' remake. More recently, the popular survival game ‘Dead By Daylight’ allowed players to play as Myers in a proper horror setting, adding him to the roster with fellow horror icons Freddy Krueger, Pinhead from ‘Hellraiser’ and Ghostface from the ‘Scream’ movies.
Freddy’s first foray into the digital world came in 1989 with a game on the Commodore 64 and PC, and is still playable in Dos form. 1990 saw Rare, of future ‘Goldeneye 007’ and ‘Donkey Kong Country’ fame put out a 'Nightmare On Elm Street' game, and featured what was for the time a very novel feature.
The initial plan was to let players to play as Freddy Krueger, but considering the game was coming out on a family-friendly Nintendo console, the plan was scrapped. Freddy seems a natural fit for the ‘Dead By Daylight’ universe, with his dream-like, shape-shifting abilities a perfect match for video games, and the game does a good job of weaving in Mr. Krueger.Another 80s icon who started his video game career in the decade he became famous, Jason Voorhees is notable as the horror movie icon with a recent hit video game under his belt.
The games unpredictability offers massive replay value, and is well worth seeking out this Halloween.
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