Video games and horror didn’t mix all that well during the days of the NES. While releases like A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Shining helped to ensure the genre’s continued success in theaters, replicating that kind of fear on an eight-bit home console was next to impossible.
That doesn’t mean developers didn’t try, though. From valiant attempts at movie adaptations to frightfully fun faux-first person adventures, the NES library features a few worthwhile horror-adjacent classic titles that fans may…
