Homebrew Horror on the NES | 28+ Great Spooky Indie 8-bit Games

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The Nintendo Entertainment System is home to loads of wonderful passion projects by indie developers, and here we'll be looking at the horror realm of this vibrant homebrew scene. All game footage was recorded by me on real hardware using an RGB modded AV Famicom and upscaled with a Retrotink 5x.
0:00 Intro
0:43 Friday the 13th: Return to Camp Blood
8bitslasher.itch.io/f13demake
1:35 Halloween: October 31st
8bitslasher.itch.io/hallo31de...
2:13 Nightmare on Elm St. Son of a Hundred Maniacs
8bitslasher.itch.io/anoesdemake
2:53 Candyman: Be My Victim
8bitslasher.itch.io/candyman-...
3:54 Carpet Shark
5kids2feed.itch.io/carpet-sha...
4:43 Haunted Halloween '85
www.retrotainmentgames.com/
5:32 Haunted Halloween '86
www.retrotainmentgames.com/
6:16 Full Quiet
www.retrotainmentgames.com/
7:16 Garbage Pail Kids
www.retrotainmentgames.com/
8:09 L'Abbaye des Morts
parisoft.itch.io/abbaye-nes
9:28 Dungeons & Doomknights
artixgames.itch.io/dungeonsan...
10:30 The Secret of Necronancy
artixgames.itch.io/necronancy
11:11 Wolfling
lazycow.itch.io/wolfling
12:23 Lala the Magical
www.mojontwins.com/juegos_moj...
13:16 Cheril Perils
www.mojontwins.com/juegos_moj...
13:51 Cheril the Writer
www.mojontwins.com/juegos_moj...
14:12 Cadaverion
www.mojontwins.com/juegos_moj...
14:39 Sir Ababol Remastered
www.mojontwins.com/juegos_moj...
15:27 Micro Mages
morphcatgames.itch.io/micromages
16:20 Proto Dere
appsir.itch.io/proto-dere-nes
17:06 Ghoul Grind
woogworx.itch.io/ghoul-grind-...
18:09 Creepy Brawlers
megacatstudios.com/products/c...
19:03 The Meating
megacatstudios.com/pages/the-...
19:51 House in the Cemetery
pauldalyjr.itch.io/the-house-...
20:32 Zombiehunter Bob
baardbi.itch.io/zombiehunter-bob
21:20 They Came to Wreak Hell
team-disposable.itch.io/they-...
22:04 Space Mutants + other TBone games
t-bone1.itch.io/
23:04 Graveyard Dude
destroyed4com4t.itch.io/grave...
24:14 Outro / Alwa's Awakening Honorable Mention
eldenpixels.com/alwas-awakeni...
Check out my big NES horror video for more 8-bit spooky stuff: • Every NES & Famicom Ho...
and I also made my own horror game on the Game Boy: burst-error.itch.io/cryohazard
Links to other projects at linktr.ee/burst_error
Thanks for your support!
#nes #horrorgaming #homebrewgames

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@BurstError 5 ай бұрын

Support options on Patreon now available! patreon.com/burst_error

@BaronMorte 8 ай бұрын

I grew up with the NES n the 80's. It is so awesome that people are still making quality homebrew games 30+ years after the fact.

@JunkyardDave 8 ай бұрын

I appreciate how this was released after Halloween, so... I now consider this a Christmas video instead.

@BurstError 8 ай бұрын

Carpet Shark is all about the yuletide cheer

@fista1331 8 ай бұрын

Carpet Shark getting some love! Glad you enjoyed the concept of my crazy game. Been brainstorming a sequel ever since I finished the first game. Never know when that one might go into development! Great video, my dude! 🔥

@AchtzehnSuper 8 ай бұрын

Full Quiet is a work of art

@8bitslasher 8 ай бұрын

Awesome work as always!! Thanks for including my slasher games. Lots of great devs in this vid 🤘

@Cameroo Ай бұрын

Your video complitions are really fun! Thanks for sharing these!

@sw1tchpoint 8 ай бұрын

oh homebrew goodness, you never disappoint

@giselletorres4156 8 ай бұрын

Oh man! I remember Artix games from all my years of playing AdventureQuest! Glad to hear their style got translated in 8-bit! Will have to check out Necronancy, reminds me of all my years being emo black and red Necros and Mages in AQ.

@8BitsOfJoyGames 8 ай бұрын

The NES homebrew scene is so good. Thanks for showing off the spookier ones, some of which I will need to check out now!

@BurstError 8 ай бұрын

my body is ready for 8bitsofjoy getting the WR in Bowels of the Beast

@SPac316 8 ай бұрын

I'm very impressed with the skill these at-home developers have making these games.

@Aisha_Newhalf 8 ай бұрын

man makes me wish i had a nes growing up

@budderk1305 8 ай бұрын

I did not expect a game about the slaughter of the Cathars in this list, but as you mentioned it was originally made by Locomolito, it all made sense, lol

@NESAtlas 8 ай бұрын

It makes me happy seeing so many cool homebrew games still being made 😊

@BurstError 8 ай бұрын

same here! honestly I'm feeling inspired to try and make a little NES game myself at some point

@NESAtlas 8 ай бұрын

@@BurstError I can't upvote this enough

@hungrygoriya 8 ай бұрын

Great video! There were a ton of games in here I hadn't even heard of before, so thanks for the heads up.

@BurstError 8 ай бұрын

Thanks HG! I bet you would really like Dungeons & Doomknights, it reminded me a lot of NES Willow in some ways

@amerikaOnFire 8 ай бұрын

With the great SDK's out there that allows devs to very easily make real hardware compatible games, the NES and other consoles will live on with new software for years to come. And it's exciting to see what modern day creators can do considering we know a lot more these days vs. what the devs knew in the past in regards to making a great game. So, team might be much smaller, but the game could potentially turn out insanely good despite the hardware limits. I love to see it!

@jeremyhall2727 8 ай бұрын

Will damn, those a lot of great games on this list. I never would've thought I see this on NES. Childhood dreams coming true 😅

@ZBR_ProXP 8 ай бұрын

Great picks! All look pretty solid!

@NewportBox100s 8 ай бұрын

This is so awesome! I need to stream these live.

@paulsbunyans 8 ай бұрын

Yay I was looking for this video and no one else seemed to have made it

@theliteraryabyss 8 ай бұрын

This is such a great list of new games to try:):):)

@SunnySide_Gaming 8 ай бұрын

Halloween reminds me of 8-bit and 16-bit video games. Thank you for sharing this.

@docheckfire3979 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic video and great work! Really enjoying your channel - you're introducing me to so much cool stuff :)

@ThisIsYourGodNow 8 ай бұрын

It'd be nice if more people tried to make actually horror for the nes as opposed to ol Platformers with skeletons

@BurstError 8 ай бұрын

while I do love me some platformers with skeletons, I can't argue with that sentiment! I was a little surprised to not find much that was really serious/dark like Sweet Home or something.

@nighttyger3397 8 ай бұрын

To be fair, that’s pretty much what the “horror” offerings on the NES back in its prime were too! It takes a very skilled and creative dev to make effective horror with the limited capabilities and even moreso limited *memory* of the good ol’ 8-bit systems. I mean, it’s hard enough to make good horror on modern systems! Sweet Home is, unfortunately, an exception rather than the rule when it comes to old horror games :(

@MasterZebulin 7 ай бұрын

The (still) upcoming Occult Case Files might be what you're looking for.

@lauralulu4444 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for showing some cool homebrew games! Great video! :D

@BurstError 8 ай бұрын

thanks for watching Laura! :D

@rareplaygaming7109 8 ай бұрын

Once again, amazing video 👍

@mariusamber3237 8 ай бұрын

Full Quiet is one of my favs. It has great atmosphere, I really like the semi-Metroidvania aspect to it. It almost feels like a survival game in 2D. Had it been released in the 80s/early 90s, it would have become a classic. Nice list otherwise too, I will definitely check out Haunted Halloween games soon, and surely way more too!

@BurstError 8 ай бұрын

totally agree! would love to make a more in depth Full Quiet video someday after I finish the game.

@mercuropheliac 5 ай бұрын

OK, but Necro Nancy sounds like it would be an awesome indie comic ala Emily Strange and Lenore (The Cute Little Dead Girl)

@Roy_Boy4.1 8 ай бұрын

oh I thought this was a theme because of Halloween. But we're 5 days into November🤔 how bizarre

@BurstError 8 ай бұрын

Halloween is every day around here 💀🎃👻 some non-horror stuff in the works too.

@Gatorade69 8 ай бұрын

@@BurstErrorWell, I live with snakes and lizards And other things that go bump in the night 'Cause to me every day is Halloween

@stormcrow56k 8 ай бұрын

he done did it again...sick video!

@kylewavey6206 8 ай бұрын

Get the local brew

@trepaning 8 ай бұрын

rip rani

@nerdrageofdoom 8 ай бұрын

I hate that this video is how I found out about Rani Baker.

@neoware9030 Ай бұрын

There´s NES Jam happening in June 2024, I´m planning to make a horror game about rescuing some friends from a haunted school.

@BurstError Ай бұрын

oh cool! I will try to check that out if you finish it

@monolyth421 8 ай бұрын

NES is spookiest console

@MasterMewtwo239 8 ай бұрын

Level FK... oh PUNNY Also, haven't heard the term "sine wave" used to describe any form of video game movement in a long time, if ever.

@BurstError 8 ай бұрын

yeah, I guess the proper nomenclature is "Medusa Head Wave" XD

@djachmedd 8 ай бұрын

Wow, lot's of games I haven't heard of. Where do you find homebrew info?

@BurstError 8 ай бұрын

It's honestly scattered around all over the place. Itch.io is a good place to start, you can search by NES or other console and find stuff from there

@OXNARD-805 7 ай бұрын

Do a SNES horror games 🤤

@elodvezer1790 8 ай бұрын

Looks like JYD missed ure ... Every Horror game for the NES/Famicon 😅❤👹 a month ago 😅 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

@FiggsNeughton 7 ай бұрын

23:54 Developer passed away recently?! Anyone have any details???

@72A1D372 8 ай бұрын

Great vid!

@AMMAZZARE 8 ай бұрын

I had no idea Haunted Halloween came out of the Burgh. That’s my hometown.

@fista1331 8 ай бұрын

Haunted Halloween is awesome. The first 5 games on this video are from the 'Burgh too.