Posted: 5/1/2004 6:24 PM
Post subject: Chiller
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Booda
Joined: 4/26/2004
Posts: 149
The story begins with me moving to Washington to go to a school called DigiPen, which advertises itself as a video game school (this is only partially true; the main emphasis is on computer science, not games). The curriculum includes a "game" class where students are put into groups and have to work together to create a game. For my first game class, the professor was one Chris Erhardt (no, not the obscure sidekick from MST3K). In a lecture one day, he explained that he had created a game called Chiller, which involved all kinds of torture and general gore because he was going through a young phase where that type of thing was cool. The game was said to be ported to the NES. Outside of that, I know nothing about the game.
Posted: 5/1/2004 6:29 PM
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Yggdrasil
Joined: 4/30/2004
Posts: 95
Location: Asatru Heaven
Well, DigiPen is awesome... partly because of my newfound BEST puzzle game Bontago, link HERE. Chiller was a light gun game, the only one I know of for the NES. It was a phantasmagoria-type game whereby you killed ghouls... albeit in 2D on an 8-bit console.... but I think that teacher is an awesome piece of video game history, maybe you could interview him. :)
Posted: 5/2/2004 2:43 AM
Post subject: Interesting!
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Josh_the_FunkDOC
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Joined: 3/13/2004
Posts: 706
Location: Elyria/Oberlin, OH
Chiller was quite a cool little game for its time... I've heard about the NES port but never played it. In the arcade version, you had to shoot a certain number of ghouls/people within a time limit to beat each level. There was indeed a lot of gore and torture involved...in one level, for instance, you can keep shooting a wheel to make a machine pull a person's limbs off (I think...going by memory here). It also had a LOT of secrets, uncovered by shooting certain objects; the game actually showed you pictures hinting at the location of these secrets, before the start of the level. I know the arcade version was distributed by Exidy Games, did this man work there at the time? -Josh
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Posted: 5/2/2004 2:47 AM
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Boco
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Joined: 3/30/2004
Posts: 1354
Location: Heather's imagination
The NES version was unliscensed and released by American Game Cartridges, Inc. The levels played in reverse order from the arcade. The graphics were horrible and many animations were missing. Only one of the levels was even close to intact vs its arcade counterpart.
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