PC’s Best and Most Dated Horror Game is 25 years today | Phantasmogaria | Chapter 1-3
11Phantasmagoria is a point-and-click adventure horror video game designed by Roberta Williams for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows and released by Sierra On-Line on August 24, 1995.
STORY
The story in Phantasmagoria is about the newlyweds, Adrienne and Don Delaney, moving into a house in Massachusetts that was once owned by a practitioner of the dark arts. This evil soul takes hold of Don while Adrienne must survive this nightmare and figure out the mystery behind it all. If Williams didn’t go ahead and cite The Shining as a major influence here, it would still be pretty obvious that the game takes inspiration from the classic film. Don’s becomes more unhinged as this house and the spirit inside it take stronger hold over him.
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Chapter 2: 53:39
Chapter 3: 1:22:33
FUN FACT
There were supposed to be more scenes of Adrienne and Don as a "normal" couple at the beginning of the game to show the change in Don.
Phantasmagoria was Sierra's first game to use live actors integrated with computer-generated backgrounds. About 600 scenes were filmed for the game. The total filming took about four months, 12 hours a day, shooting six days a week. More than 200 people were ultimately involved in the making of the game.n's personalty over the course of the game. The scenes were cut to have more emphasis on the gameplay.
The game sprawled across 7 CD-ROMs (8 on the Sega Saturn port) due to the heavy amount of FMV (Full Motion Video).
Phantasmagoria was a huge success, bringing in over $12 million in its opening weekend alone and being one of the best selling games of 1995.
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