Retronauts Episode 645: The Best and Worst of 16-Bit Horror
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Last year, host Bob Mackey highlighted a grab bag of ghoulish 8-bit horror games. This year, we're proceeding to the next generation with a sampling of 16-bit horror games. Will 2025 bring us 24-bit horror games? Only time will tell.
For now, it's high time you pressed play to hear Bob, Diamond Feit, Drew Mackie, and Kole Ross rank these seasonally-appropriate games from the early 90s. Some of them are quite famous! Others you'll likely never hear about again.
Description: Last year, we explored the NES era's few horror games and ranked them on their general spookiness levels—given the standards of the time. And now we're back to do the exact same thing for a whole new generation of consoles! This week on Retronauts, join Bob Mackey, Kole Ross (of Duckfeed.tv), Diamond Feit, and Drew Mackie (of Gayest Episode Ever and Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games) as the crew unites to discuss a magical time when horror games could have evocative titles like "Decap Attack" and "Zombies Ate My Neighbors."
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