Clock Tower delivers that sense of dread and drama in spades! What a thing of beauty I mean, how awesome would it be to take control of a protagonist who is constantly being chased by a masked maniac? That every room you enter he could be lurking in the shadows… watching and studying your every move… waiting for the right moment to jump out and slit your throat wide open. I dreamt about someone turning the Halloween concept into a video game. I even had a nightmare of Halloween‘s iconic madman, Michael Myers, later that night.

I spent more than half the movie hiding behind the sofa with one hand covering my eyes. Uncle Jimmy let me rent the first one back in 1989. Here comes the boogeyman…Īnyone who knows me knows how much I love the HALLOWEEN series.

But thanks to the fan translation scene, we can now experience this macabre game in all its gory glory. That and, of course, there was no chance (even with the Play It Loud! movement) that Clock Tower was going to get approved by Nintendo of America! What a shame it never saw American soil because this is one of the most unique and original efforts on the Super Nintendo.

By the time it came out in Japan on September 14, 1995, the SNES was quickly losing steam as the 32-bit machines gained more and more momentum. What more could I ask for, right? Unfortunately, the game never received a North American release. It resembles a horror movie - I like its creepy villain, SCISSORMAN, almost as much as Michael Myers - and it’s on my favorite system of all time, the Super Nintendo. One of the true Halloween staples in any video gaming collection, Clock Tower delivers one creepy and tense adventure the likes of which few SNES games can claim! The legend is bornĬlock Tower combined two things I absolutely love. Thanks to the efforts of some diehard SNES fanatics, the game has long since been translated into English for the rest of us to enjoy. It was a few years later that I discovered the first Clock Tower originated on the Super Famicom. In the late ’90s I bought Clock Tower for the PlayStation and played it to death (pardon the pun). And this game is perfect to play on Halloween night. It’s one of my favorite days of the year. “A night when pure EVIL roamed the streets…”

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