Yeah people are asking "why was it never finished", I do wonder, but it might have nothing to do with the game even? It might be that people just didn't know the IP, (I sure dont making it confusing like PiZLe said) or they lost the license? I do really really like that the rolling mechanic seems to null damage? That's so great as many of this era just had the stupid damage upon contact which didn't make sense in a 2D world. Castlevania could have used that! So rolling past is great. BUT at like 3:50 we see the guys with rocks clearly hitting him and his health not going down? So I wonder if they turned down damage for this video capture? Maybe the game was super hard in reality? -- -Or the hit detection is just broken because he does take damage finally from some ooze water, but boy he ran through a LOT of spiders, rats and projectiles with no damage....
I never thought it would be possible to make a video game of a board game like Atmosfear/Nightmare, but this is amazing. They did a great job retaining all the important key aspects of the board game to make what looks like a very enjoyable SNES game. To bad this wasn't released.
OMFG it IS that board game! I recognized the face in the thumbnail and was like "noooooo way....". All I can really remember is the guy's face getting grosser as the game went on and the constant "STOP!" that would make us all jump, lol.
@@CarlosGonzalez-ll6xx It seems like he put together the fact that the board game is directly linked to this video game. It's the observation that lead too his conclusion. Why are you asking questions a child could answer in a condescending tone? That is the real mystery.
Loved playing this board game with my siblings and friends as a kid. I wish the would have released a DVD or CD ROM version with different cycles so you would memorize the game sequences by the 4th time you played or even better release it now just more story boards.
@FrankNFurter1000 why he makes a very good point I mean come on this was a horror game from the late 90's why r there jump scares#those r a late 2000's thing bruh
They have plenty reason : 1- They may have missed its deadline several times, that they brought it too many times from a later date, to the point that the company eventually cancelled it. 2 - Maybe Nintendo surely saw the game and they may have put a red light on it because they find it too creepy for the audience. 3 - Lack of budget to advance the project to its final version.
To me, who never played the board game, it kinda looks like a LJN game minus source material fame. In a time were 90% of the gaming library was sidescrolling platformers and often either built upon much more well known lore or tried to create a new mascot, and take the crown from Mario, me thinks this could've ben a little bit too much of a niche product. I mean a board game that was famous mostly in Australia!?
I had the board game. You had to put a VHS video in that explained the rules and the game had a 60 minute timer. As the time went down it got more and more frantic. Also you drew cards and many of them had times on and whenever that time appeared you had to do whatever it said on the card. So it might have said "At 58:02:45, scare the oldest player. Move forward if they scream", something like that. Caused a lot of fall outs in our family...
I had it as a board/VHS combo. Never played it though. I was reaching that age when it would no longer be cool to play, yet friends and I weren't quite old enough to enjoy the silliness and camp of it all. 12 to 14 is just a crappy age.
This looks great. I can see some of the effects work isn't finished and the sounds are a little wonky but a little more polish and this would be awesome.
I've never seen a game before where the ending is just the devs writing "The End" at the point that they got to unfinished. Definitely interesting, gonna put this on my SNES, has a good vibe going on.
this actually looks pretty amazing, looks very similar and has a good atmosfear like the Nosferatu game by Seta i believe for SNES. The only thing i dont like is the dice colelcting it seems a bit off compared to the other pickups kinda gives me a bit of a Wizard of OZ game vibe instead.
SETA games I adored. Nosferatu, Castle of Dragon, 8 Eyes. Athena developed Castle I think though. SETA published. I remember a ad in a Nintendo Power of Bio Force Ape but that it. Never heard of again. 2008 or 09, company liquidated.
It's like a mix between Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Nosferatu. And looks really good :D The man in the robe makes me think about Wax Works cinematics.
I still have the original board game and the 3 sequel tapes for witch, zombie and vampire plus the harbingers. Never knew there was an unfinished game, looks really good, I would have bought it definitely.
They also made a Mummy expansion for the DVD version of Atmosfear, and a Soul Rangers expansion for the Harbingers game. Sadly, the last 2 planned expansions (Poltergeist and Werewolf) were never released. There is also a 2023 Kickstarter anniversary version of the original game (you don't a vhs to play it).
I loved the board game back in the day, didn't know it was australian. The video game seems to have little to no link to the board game though but nice to know it existed.
Of all things, _Atmosfear_ really should have been a video game. I think this captures the creepy, oppressive vibe of the board game rather well, but I feel it could have used some more personality in the monsters when you encounter them. Or even get glimpses of them throughout the levels, maybe directly addressing you so know why you want to stop them. It's a pity not all the bosses are implemented here, 'cos I would have liked to see their appearances, besides Anne de Chantraine and Gevaudan. The map fascinated me the most watching this. There's some nice details here; The Gatekeeper' eyes following you as you move, the moving parts across the different structures to draw in the eye, I also like how each completed area gets destroyed by the Gatekeeper after you finish it. It'd be nice if he actually did more than pause the game for a bit when he pops up, though.
I was thinking, someone should finish it up best they can and release it on rom sites. Like along with the fan games and rom hacks, not for profit or anything even.
Pretty good concept - I remember the 'board game' being advertised at the beginning of rented VHS tapes. I wonder why they pulled the plug on this especially when it was so near completion
I have both board games Atmosfear and Nightmare (both basically the same game) and I’d have totally bought this back in the day. I wish I’d gotten the “expansions” for Nightmare.
looks better than some released SNES platform games gameplay-wise..graphics are pretty good too. even the small touches like when the character sprite goes darker against the moon when traversing the rooftops.
I think those “stop” moments would have scared a lot of kids, the game is just playing and then the dude with green eyes jumps in your face. I played the board game many years ago, and it had a different actor instead of the guy in the game here.
me and my friends use to play the board game all the time. wish I could have seen the full game. I was looking forward to seeing the bosses.. especially Baron Samedi and Bathory
How well does this control, out of curiousity? It seems like it controls well from watching the gameplay, but your run is also so clean that it looks like it could be a TAS. Very well practiced.
i loved the board games i still have 4 of them as well as the main game which you had to have to play the other casset tapes and then the dvds that came out i must say the video verison was much more simple than the dvd ones more to mess with the dvds ones was but over all great games loved them and i never knew this was done pity
Looks very interesting, I have to say. I don't know if the game was finished, but if this is the true full game, I hope it will find a release sometime in the future.
I remember watching spoony doing a review of nightmare. Truly funny. Years before spoony lost his sense of humor. The good old days of classic RUclips. And his reviews of all the Altima computer games. Just as good.
Strange game. Looks like a combination of Bram Stokers Dracula and a sidescrolling version of "Zombies ate my neighbors". The graphics are nice but the game seems like it doesn't know what it wants to be. It seems to be neither fish or meat.
I mean sure, it looks like a pretty good early 90's platformer. But like, is it really Atmosfear if the Gitkipper doesn't really have much to do with what happens?
Wow the graphics on this gem are pretty phenomenal, hope someone can complete it and get it released to people in physical form
That super jank boss fight/death animation at 7:55 is hilarious 😂
"Spectacular death sequence"
"Programmer art."
The way the background moves and all... Isn't it better than 95% of games back then ? Maybe it's been done recently actually
Character animations looks a bit to diverse and advanced also.
Few games 94-95 looked this good.
...the enemies don't make sense, the "time" mechanic is broken, roll-dodge is OP, and _hot-damn_ is it all totally awesome!
Yeah people are asking "why was it never finished", I do wonder, but it might have nothing to do with the game even? It might be that people just didn't know the IP, (I sure dont making it confusing like PiZLe said) or they lost the license?
I do really really like that the rolling mechanic seems to null damage? That's so great as many of this era just had the stupid damage upon contact which didn't make sense in a 2D world. Castlevania could have used that! So rolling past is great. BUT at like 3:50 we see the guys with rocks clearly hitting him and his health not going down? So I wonder if they turned down damage for this video capture? Maybe the game was super hard in reality? -- -Or the hit detection is just broken because he does take damage finally from some ooze water, but boy he ran through a LOT of spiders, rats and projectiles with no damage....
I never thought it would be possible to make a video game of a board game like Atmosfear/Nightmare, but this is amazing. They did a great job retaining all the important key aspects of the board game to make what looks like a very enjoyable SNES game. To bad this wasn't released.
OMFG it IS that board game! I recognized the face in the thumbnail and was like "noooooo way....".
All I can really remember is the guy's face getting grosser as the game went on and the constant "STOP!" that would make us all jump, lol.
I am curious to know what kind of reflection you had to reach such a stupid conclusion
@@CarlosGonzalez-ll6xx It seems like he put together the fact that the board game is directly linked to this video game.
It's the observation that lead too his conclusion.
Why are you asking questions a child could answer in a condescending tone? That is the real mystery.
Loved playing this board game with my siblings and friends as a kid. I wish the would have released a DVD or CD ROM version with different cycles so you would memorize the game sequences by the 4th time you played or even better release it now just more story boards.
The dice rolls mechanic for points was a nice touch.
If this game was developed back in 1994, it was still pretty advanced for an SNES game. Full speech? That wasn't common for 16 bit consoles.
Absolutely loved playing the board game as a kid!
I remember that board game I thought it was cool when you will be playing and a guy just come out of nowhere on the screen and tell you to stop
I never knew they made a video game
There are even jumpscares in the middle of the gameplay, wtf
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@FrankNFurter1000 why he makes a very good point I mean come on this was a horror game from the late 90's why r there jump scares#those r a late 2000's thing bruh
@@JoseHernandez-sl6vz Your what pray tell?????????????????????????????
Play the VHS Board Game, you get jumpscares when a character interrupts. “STOP!!! Whose turn is it next? ANSWER ME!!!”
This is a pretty decent game. I wonder why they cancelled it.. graphics is stunning in it's time..
They have plenty reason :
1- They may have missed its deadline several times, that they brought it too many times from a later date, to the point that the company eventually cancelled it.
2 - Maybe Nintendo surely saw the game and they may have put a red light on it because they find it too creepy for the audience.
3 - Lack of budget to advance the project to its final version.
To me, who never played the board game, it kinda looks like a LJN game minus source material fame.
In a time were 90% of the gaming library was sidescrolling platformers and often either built upon much more well known lore or tried to create a new mascot, and take the crown from Mario, me thinks this could've ben a little bit too much of a niche product. I mean a board game that was famous mostly in Australia!?
Not really, there were much better looking games out on and before 1994.
This is just decent looking.
Likely because the US weren't allowed scary games for the SNES.
@@jeffcox6539 , and Castlevania was not one, let alone Metroid? I call bullshit on that claim.
I had the board game. You had to put a VHS video in that explained the rules and the game had a 60 minute timer. As the time went down it got more and more frantic. Also you drew cards and many of them had times on and whenever that time appeared you had to do whatever it said on the card. So it might have said "At 58:02:45, scare the oldest player. Move forward if they scream", something like that. Caused a lot of fall outs in our family...
That game was so fun to play. A family game night classic !
It was awesome. I had it too. Very fun to play. That guy in that VHS reminded me of Palpatine.
I still have it. Had it growing up and found another copy as an adult. Definitely a unique game-night experience!
me too, we played it quite a bit, the vhs got wore out.
*thunder clap* Stop! Who's turn is it next? Hands up! You're banished!
LOL The Baron's Cathedral of Jive is a literal nightclub, complete with entrance fee and bouncer! Perfection!
I remember the Atmosfear table/DVD Game when I was a child ... I feared It & I loved It at the same time!
I had it as a board/VHS combo. Never played it though. I was reaching that age when it would no longer be cool to play, yet friends and I weren't quite old enough to enjoy the silliness and camp of it all. 12 to 14 is just a crappy age.
Hey! You! The one who is moving now!
I miss the days when games were about passion...
This looks great. I can see some of the effects work isn't finished and the sounds are a little wonky but a little more polish and this would be awesome.
knowing my gaming choices and having had this console since launch I can certainly see myself playing this game.
I've never seen a game before where the ending is just the devs writing "The End" at the point that they got to unfinished. Definitely interesting, gonna put this on my SNES, has a good vibe going on.
Star Fox 2 had a whole credits scene... before that ever got released-
How can you call this unfinished when there is CLEARLY and ending??
@@aaronkosharskyswhiteknight5224 Maybe the jank.
@@aaronkosharskyswhiteknight5224 The poster literally says it's an unfinished, unreleased game that stopped dev't at about 85% in the description.
@@sethreid7736 how did u not see the "The end" at the literal end of the game. Sorry but the game is by definition complete.
Right now, somewhere in Chicago, we can hear Spoony screaming his what loving head off.
Never seen this game before until now. Impressive 👏🏾
Whoever created this games at least I think so seems like they push the Super Nintendo to its limits but it's impressive
this actually looks pretty amazing, looks very similar and has a good atmosfear like the Nosferatu game by Seta i believe for SNES. The only thing i dont like is the dice colelcting it seems a bit off compared to the other pickups kinda gives me a bit of a Wizard of OZ game vibe instead.
SETA games I adored. Nosferatu, Castle of Dragon, 8 Eyes. Athena developed Castle I think though. SETA published. I remember a ad in a Nintendo Power of Bio Force Ape but that it. Never heard of again. 2008 or 09, company liquidated.
It's like a mix between Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Nosferatu. And looks really good :D
The man in the robe makes me think about Wax Works cinematics.
He looks like a young Darth Sidious and sounds like Lord Humongous from the Road Warrior (Mad Max 2).
I bet this games developent started after 2010. I mean, it has dodgerolls, sneaking, fm"v", trademarks of generations later
bring more gameplays of these new snes and sega genesis games
at the end: 'the End' written on the wall...what a finale :-)
Really nice! I wonder why that was never released? It had everything what a game could have had. Nice graphic (for the time) voice acting etc.
As an Aussie gamer I NEVER thought I'd see this
Why
@@SlippyMcDervish the board game was from Australia
Dude, this game is sick! I think that voice is Trickster from Brainscan.
I still have the original board game and the 3 sequel tapes for witch, zombie and vampire plus the harbingers. Never knew there was an unfinished game, looks really good, I would have bought it definitely.
They also made a Mummy expansion for the DVD version of Atmosfear, and a Soul Rangers expansion for the Harbingers game. Sadly, the last 2 planned expansions (Poltergeist and Werewolf) were never released.
There is also a 2023 Kickstarter anniversary version of the original game (you don't a vhs to play it).
I still have both of these board games this would of been really cool to have.
Last stage music (Bathorys Castle) reminds me of the music of stage 4 of Alien 3 on the Sega Genesis :)
This channel is pretty solid
I loved the board game back in the day, didn't know it was australian. The video game seems to have little to no link to the board game though but nice to know it existed.
I had this board game. It was pretty fun. You played along to this VHS movie
I can remember playing the board game and it was pretty fun
You cheated! Worm!
This is pretty nutty and cool to see
Prince of Persia meets Castlevania 4?
Of all things, _Atmosfear_ really should have been a video game.
I think this captures the creepy, oppressive vibe of the board game rather well, but I feel it could have used some more personality in the monsters when you encounter them. Or even get glimpses of them throughout the levels, maybe directly addressing you so know why you want to stop them. It's a pity not all the bosses are implemented here, 'cos I would have liked to see their appearances, besides Anne de Chantraine and Gevaudan.
The map fascinated me the most watching this. There's some nice details here; The Gatekeeper' eyes following you as you move, the moving parts across the different structures to draw in the eye, I also like how each completed area gets destroyed by the Gatekeeper after you finish it. It'd be nice if he actually did more than pause the game for a bit when he pops up, though.
man, whoever put in all of that time... all of that sprite effort, they should be so pissed off. I hope they're still doing okay.
Hopefully someone like Piko Interactive can pick up the rights to this game, and get it finished.
I was thinking, someone should finish it up best they can and release it on rom sites. Like along with the fan games and rom hacks, not for profit or anything even.
From the look of the multi-color jacket and hat, this would be Marty McFly, from 2015 and this would be his worst nightmare
I would have loved this. The board games were so much fun back in the day.
Wow even though I played the board game and had a SNES, I never knew this game even existed!
Pretty good concept - I remember the 'board game' being advertised at the beginning of rented VHS tapes. I wonder why they pulled the plug on this especially when it was so near completion
I have both board games Atmosfear and Nightmare (both basically the same game) and I’d have totally bought this back in the day. I wish I’d gotten the “expansions” for Nightmare.
Seeing those graphics just took me way back😅 When you couldn't save just pause the game and turn the TV off 😅
The bad guys must've not been paid enough. They just ignoring the kid performing the epic maneuver like 'k whatever' and walk away.
looks better than some released SNES platform games gameplay-wise..graphics are pretty good too. even the small touches like when the character sprite goes darker against the moon when traversing the rooftops.
I loved the board game with the old vhs tape.
The jumpscares are supposed to be mimicking the original VHS Atmosfear board game where the same guy randomly pops up during the game. Duh...
I think those “stop” moments would have scared a lot of kids, the game is just playing and then the dude with green eyes jumps in your face. I played the board game many years ago, and it had a different actor instead of the guy in the game here.
This looks like a great game to play while youre high with your friends! I want it!
This is like a sidescrolling version of " Zombies ate my neighbors" but without the item gimmicks.
me and my friends use to play the board game all the time. wish I could have seen the full game. I was looking forward to seeing the bosses.. especially Baron Samedi and Bathory
Wow, fantastic visuals on this one
this game looks great. i wish it would have been released or hope that a community of modders finish it.
How well does this control, out of curiousity? It seems like it controls well from watching the gameplay, but your run is also so clean that it looks like it could be a TAS. Very well practiced.
looks a bit like Nosferatu, though with the added board game element. Even the narrator/game master is pretty impressive for a SNES game.
Would love to have played this as a kid, looks so good.
Holy crap. I loved the board game and never knew about this
Music at 28:20 has classic SNES vibes. Sounds like a Donkey Kong Country 2, Super Metroid and Castlevania collaboration.
Somewhat it reminds me of nosferatu for the snes
I really hope someone rips the raw soundtrack from this. I'd love to use a few of the samples in some of my music.
As a big sega fan ( but also playing nintendo systems) this looks and sounds impressive! I would like to play it!
The best game ending...
The music's awesome, up there with the best
I had this as a board game. Came with a vhs tape to play and follow
Ok someone needs to finish this... give it a proper release with box and manual and take my $$$
i loved the board games i still have 4 of them as well as the main game which you had to have to play the other casset tapes and then the dvds that came out i must say the video verison was much more simple than the dvd ones more to mess with the dvds ones was but over all great games loved them and i never knew this was done pity
I have never heard of this, nor the board game it is based on, but now I am extremely curious. Time to learn something!
The dancing skeletons with jeans on really sells it for me @28:48
OMG, that oustonishing soundtrack is deeeeeep!
Most likely because many game studios at that point were shifting their investments away from Genesis and SNES and toward PS1 and N64.
Looks very interesting, I have to say. I don't know if the game was finished, but if this is the true full game, I hope it will find a release sometime in the future.
That opening was impressive.
Perfect Halloween game! I'm gonna get this today!
This game is AMAZING! 🤩 I wonder if it's possible to bring it back to a full release like Strictly Limited did with Clockwork Arqaruio?
Seriously, if someone finished this (and it looks close to done as is) I'd buy it.
This game even in proto stage looks awesome. Nosferatu 2 comes to mind............
Holy sh*t! I loved this boardgame when I was a kid!!! No idea this was a thing too, or an almost thing anyhow
Damn these graphics for Super NES tho, a lot of TLC went into making this 👍
Incredible atmosphere for an incomplete game.
I remember watching spoony doing a review of nightmare.
Truly funny.
Years before spoony lost his sense of humor. The good old days of classic RUclips.
And his reviews of all the Altima computer games. Just as good.
Whatever happened to that guy?
Strange game. Looks like a combination of Bram Stokers Dracula and a sidescrolling version of "Zombies ate my neighbors". The graphics are nice but the game seems like it doesn't know what it wants to be. It seems to be neither fish or meat.
Too bad it never to released. It looks awesome! Like the atmosphere!
Tenho 41 anos de idade, tive Super Nintendo. Esse jogo nunca tinha visto na vida, somente agora.
The game looks amazing! I wish it was released.
I have 2 copies of this board game,one is title Nightmare and the other is called Atmosfear.
Synth on the last level fuckn was dope af
Damn looks ahead of its time
I had nightmare the board game that came with a video. I miss it lol I had no idea they were making a video game from it. Would've been really cool
Looks like one of those VCR boardgames.
It is in fact based on one by the same name.
damn i fuck with that walk cycle at the beginning
bro these scenes are scary, but it's a shame it got canceled
I like how the flying witch poops out pumpkins at you
They definitely need more time making this game
Wow! I have one of their VHS board games
Esse jogo é a mistura de Nosferatu (snes), Dark Cavern (Atari 2600) com Mickey Fantasy (Mega Drive).
Had this board game. Scared the shot out of me as a kid
Looks good! Reminds me of Nosferatu.
And Earthworm Jim too
music on last level had some quite some Shadowrun vibes. Dialogue music if I'm not completely mistaken
I mean sure, it looks like a pretty good early 90's platformer. But like, is it really Atmosfear if the Gitkipper doesn't really have much to do with what happens?