The Game Boy Color wasn’t particularly great at horror atmosphere. I bought it on day 1.Ĭapcom was right, of course. Unlike Resident Evil, it had a publisher that was willing to push it out anyway. It, too, was going to be a survival horror game. It, too, had Resident Evil-style 3D worlds to explore. This one was called Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare. Thankfully, another similarly ambitious project came along to catch my attention instead. I was disappointed that this game had fallen off the coverage radar when it was still being worked on, especially since, as I hadn’t heard of its cancellation, I was probably holding on to hope for too long. I would find out later that the project had been pulled at the very last minute by Capcom, which had decided that, even though the engine was in full 3D and the game worked, it just wasn’t scary enough for the Resident Evil brand. So each month I dived deep into the magazines looking for more information on this incredible project. This more than excited little ol’ me, because back in those days the idea of having a full-on survival horror experience in a portable console seems inconceivable. One little block of text really caught my eye: some developers were working on a port of Resident Evil for the Game Boy Color! And it would be in full 3D! Many, many years ago I was browsing through one of the gaming magazines that I used to subscribe to, and it was a particularly exciting issue, as it was E3 time, and there were a lot of new games being showcased in that particular issue (the Internet wasn’t such a thing back then and yes I am that old). This, of course, didn’t stop the occasional brave developer from trying. It was more than good enough to run simple platformers and action games, but it wasn’t really up to the task of 3D gaming. The Game Boy Color was not exactly a powerful machine.
I have run through it a couple of times on my emulation consoles over the years).Ī bit of history first. It has been quite the rush of nostalgia playing it again (on a legitimate console, that is. It is by no means a masterpiece, but I would have never in a million years bet on this ever getting a re-release.
Oh no, I was very glad to see this one indeed.Īlone In The Dark: The New Nightmare was a “demake” of a Resident Evil-style survival horror game that was released on PlayStation, PS2, and Dreamcast. It is the most obscure of these games, and possibly the most obscure retro game to get a release on any of the “Virtual Console” platforms to date, that amused me the most among the announcements.
Nintendo announced a boatload of new games (many of them big-time exciting), and also finally brought the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance to its retro libraries for subscribers. Today’s Nintendo Direct was, by any measure, an impressive one.
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