Category: Nyogtha

#14. Realms of the Haunting Publisher: Interplay Developer: Gremlin Interactive Systems Released on: DOS Release Date: 12/31/1996 Realms of the Haunting is without a doubt the greatest first person shooter ever made. The lowest score it ever received from ANY website, magazine, or form of video game journalism was an 8.5/10 or 85%. Not even…

#16. The 7th Guest Publisher: Virgin Interactive Developer: Trilobyte Systems Released On: DOS, MAC, Phillips CD-I Release Date: October 30th, 1993 For quite some time, The 7th Guest was the best selling PC game of all time. It’s no wonder really. Trilobyte and Virgin gave us not only one of the first CD-ROM games, but…

#18. Alone in the Dark Publisher: Interplay Productions Developer: Infogrames Systems Released On: DOS, 3DO, MAC, PC Release Date: 1992 Before anyone even thinks it, let’s put the awful, AWFUL, Uwe Boll film out of our heads as best we can and focus on the game, okay? I’m sure there will be some people that…

#20 Dracula: Unleashed Developer: Viacom New Media Publisher: Sega (Sega CD), Viacom New Media (PC/Mac/DOS), Infinite Ventures (2002 re-release on DVD). Systems Released On: Sega CD, PC, Macintosh IIE, DOS Release Date: 09/15/1993 Dracula: Unleashed is probably my second favorite game for the Sega CD, after Dark Wizard. It’s too bad no one else on…

#22 Echo Night Beyond Publisher: From Software (Japan)/Agetec (North America)/Digital Jesters (Europe) Developer: From Software Systems Released On: Sony Playstation 2 Release Date: 01/22/2004 (Japan)/07/27/2004 (North America) Man, it seems like just last week I talked about Echo Night 1! Oh wait, it was. Echo Night Beyond takes us from a haunted ocean liner in…

#24 Echo Night Publisher: From Software Developer: From Software (Japan)/ Agetec (North America) Systems Released On: Sony Playstation Release Date: 08/13/1998 (Japan)/07/31/1999 (North America) You know, it always amazes me what concepts took forever to make it into video game form. A Super Hero fighting game for example It amazes me it took that long…

#26. The 11th Hour Publisher: Virgin Interactive Developer: Trilobyte Systems Released On: PC, 3DO Release Date: 11/30/1995 The 11th Hour was the sequel to the amazingly successful PC game, The 7th Guest. We’ll cover the first game later on in the countdown, but for now let’s focus just on The 11th Hour. Although it has…

We now join the countdown, already in progress. If you missed the earlier bits, here are links: The Preamble #30 & #29 (Stil Life and Night Trap, respectively) #28. Uninvited Publisher: Mindscape Developer: ICOM Simulations Systems Released On: Amiga, Commodore 64, Macintosh, Nintendo Entertainment System, PC. Release Date 9/29/1987 Wow. Hard to believe Uninvited is…

And so the horror/terror countdown kicks off. Before reading this article I’m going to state 3 things. 1. Read the god damned Preamble! 2. No recipe this week. This is 15 pages long people! And I have 28 more games to go through. 3. There’s a nice discussion started in the fan forums. I suggest…

After a nice month of not writing, it’s good to come back to the Pulse. Of course during all that time I’ve been doing a ton of research for what I will hope to be a very popular multi column series here in Nyogtha. Back in the days of 411mania.com, I did a column called…

Okay, I’m just going to make this quick. I’m taking the next month off from Inside Pulse. Not for anything bad or drama type reasons. I’m just going to be putting together the Best of 2005 feature for the Games section as well as spending this month working on a very large project that will…

As we’re now a week away from the most important holiday of the year for the largest religion in the world, as well as the one day that is the underpinning for my country’s economy, I thought it would be amusing to take a look at the real origins of Christmas and why we celebrate…

This week I wanted to talk about something I can’t help but find terribly amusing. About a month ago, the University of British Columbia released a study that says the concept of “Cow Tipping” is an urban legend and is not actually possible. I mentioned this is my LJ a few weeks ago, and several…

And we are officially in December. I did want to bring up that the Games staff has officially started our own award nominations for the Best (and worst) of 2005. Keep your eyes open for you’ll have a chance to vote in the reader’s choice ballot as well. This week I wanted to cover one…

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Now that the holiday weekend of sloth and gluttony has ended, I can return the usual topics at hand here at Inside Pulse you expect me to cover. It’s also back to answering reader emails. Alex, I know what “Occam’s Razor” is, but where did the term originate?…

As you know Nyogtha is usually 90% folklore and 10% food. But seeing that in a few scant days it’s Thanksgiving, I thought I’d reverse that for once. This Thursday I’m doing Thanksgiving dinner for my father’s side of the family. Although I take after my mom’s side far more, my father side are your…

Well, as I type this it’s 12:09pm CST here in Minneapolis on Nov 13th and I was awakened about 30 minutes ago by a call from one of my friends in the WWE that Eddie Guerrero passed away about 2-3 miles from my home. I usually don’t break my own personal kayfabe re: my friendship…

Welcome back to Nyogtha. Thanks to those of you that participated in the survey from last week. I received about 125-150 responses, so we’re getting there. If you haven’t filled it out yet, please do so. And as we spent the five Mondays in October going hardcore into the land of monstrous beasties, I’d like…