I wonder how many people are now adults who have come to this video because, like me, you remember playing it often but couldn’t quite remember the name.
It used to scare me as a kid lmfao I was scared of anything Horror related! I'd love to see a reimagining/remake of this game though. This and Ghost Master were two very unique Horror games that never got their dues. I seem to remember Haunting getting pretty poor reviews tbh.
🤦♀️ I wish they're gonna make a remake of Haunting: Starring Polterguy about an family who moved into a new house that belongs to a latin jazz musician. It turns out their house is haunted by the ghost of a latin jazz musician.
I had the privilege of stopping into John and Daves cube at EA often ( they were right across the hall) to check this out as they developed it. So cool there is a video!
Dang that’s cool! My buddy had this game back in the day, I was a 7-year-old kid watching him play this, it was so rad! Amazing you saw them making it ^_^
Such an underrated and fun game. Brings back a lot of childhood memories. The title character is like a punk rock Beetlejuice. Definitely deserved to have his own series and become a recurring character.
@@khlothostonney5760 it was GOOD and very creative especially during that era. Most games were 2D side scrollers back then. It was a lot of fun and humorous too.
yes, this Ghostmaster and I'd love D to be given another try. It was a highly ambitious game for the Saturn, it was over 3 CD's I seem to remember and import only. I never got chance to play it and it seemed bizarre but I'd love to play the damn thing at least, even if it's terrible lmao.
Memories. I played this as a kid. It was a very different kind of game than I was used to. It frustrated me at first but when I eventually got the hang of it, I couldn’t put the controller down.
Haunting is such an underrated classic that's completely loaded with personality. There aren't many games that have made me laugh so often and so hard - I'm so glad I discovered this as a kid! Make sure to check out my compilation of the scare scenes too! ua-cam.com/video/1am2tQBCtsw/v-deo.html
I had a lot of fun with this one, back in the 90s. Still one of the most original games I've ever played. The possession scares (complete with grandfather clock chimes) were really creepy.
I remember playing this game when i was super young and never progressing at all but dammit if that green guy and some of these animations aren't bringing on Nostalgia flashbacks
Man just hearing the opening of this game takes me back to the time period. I remember playing this late at night while watching, “Tales from the crypt”
I thought the ending would disclose a bit more on why Polterguy is stalking the Sardinis. Polterguy starts to talk about it in one cut scene, mentioning himself skating, then abruptly ends the conversation to continue scaring. I'm assuming the Sardinis hit him with their car while he was skateboarding, and killed him. If that's the case, someone in this family got away with manslaughter, and deserves to be haunted.
+HowDoUPlay Nah, he got killed riding a faulty, cheaply made skateboard made by Sardini's company. Iirc the manual explains it much better than the game does
Thanks for the heads up. The manual definitely covers it better. I also learned that two of the guys behind this game also made Paperboy, Rampart, and 720 Degrees.
I borrowed this game from my cousin when I was a kid and got hooked, then he sold it. Then I found it in an EA collection for the PSP and got to relive so many memories, now this just needs to come out on Switch!
Mannn, I have been looking for this game, and I couldn't remember the name! My cousin brought this to our house back in the day. For the longest time I thought I made this game up in my head because I couldn't find it 😂 now I can chill knowing this game I loved as a kid and played briefly actually exists and isn't something I made up in my head.
I could create a video game about a teenage girl who find a way to get back home while survive the night with cursed sea captains, ghosts and half human half demon landlords. It's called Mariposa Harbor
When I first approached the game it was for the isometric graphics - I love that angle in 2D games, as it's especially good for very detailed locations, even if it's often inconvenient on a gameplay level; here, it's mitigated by the fact you can move freely and that great precision isn't really needed. Anyway, it took little to discover how fantastic and unique it was, the level of detail is amazing for any game at the time, many animations seem to happen only once in specific levels, you can replay many times and still discover new ones. The lack of censorship helps - it'd be a great game on the SNES too but would have lost something. Beside that terrible, unexpected "final boss", I only take a little personal issue with the character of Vito, who looks not like a bad businessman but rather a stereotypical italo-american mafia guy.
ah, loved that game as a kid, playing that game during a sleepover at a friends place. For those who don't know, theres a game called Ghost Master on PC (Steam), which plays a little bit like The Haunting
Cool, I just watched your old upload of this earlier, and I wished you had done more of a write-up, I like reading those. James and Mike did this one today, had me curious.
I never heard of this game until I ran into AVGN playing it, which was like a year or so ago, but I found yesterday, and now I'm struggling to find much on it. Like, how do game overs work? Can you be seen? Exercised? Can they get used to you and not be scared anymore if you do it wrong?
If I recall correctly, the heart beat signifies how scared they are. Higher the beat, the more scared they are. After a few scares, they may run into another room. If you leave them alone for too long, they’ll calm down. If they go back into a room you already were in, you can’t repossess the items you’ve already possessed. You need the globs of green goo to be able to possess things, and if that runs out, I believe a spirit comes to collect you. Also, Evil spirits can come attack you randomly, and them hitting you makes you lose the ectoplasm. I think if you run out, game over, start from the beginning. Of course, I haven’t played this for YEARS, so I’m a little hazy on the rules
I wish I create a video game about a 18th century sea captain who is cursed by a witch and builds an apartment out of his ship. Until a teenage girl accidentally came to Mariposa Harbor via a magical whistle and learned to survive the night with whistling tree spirits, ghosts and half human half demon landlords. I greenlight my video game to Nintendo Switch
There was another game where we used to become ghosts and haunt in hospitals and places... I am not able to remember its name.. It was a very old game tho
Sega didn't even make this game, neither does this game having blood make Sega better. How much Sega games are there fondly remembered and not forgotten because Sega can't use it's IP's?
I literally typed into Google “game for snes where you scare people”. I still can’t remember if this is the same game in my vague one frame memory I have of it, but it seems almost the same. I remember there being blood in mine for some reason though
Am I'm seeing what looks like proper transparency on the Mega Drive here? Or is it just a really good way of making it look transparent via some smart design? :-o
Apparently there's some kind of shadow/highlight graphical mode on the Genesis that can basically say "show X pixels but with black overlayed or these pixels but with white overlayed", so that probably explains why Polterguy has that black & white leather jacket, he's a sprite made up of funky black-shadow or white-highlight transparency pixels when the Sardinis are present, you can kind of tell that his green head and hands don't have the same transparency
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I wonder how many people are now adults who have come to this video because, like me, you remember playing it often but couldn’t quite remember the name.
I thought I dreamed that I played this game as a child.
But it turns out that this game really exists.
It used to scare me as a kid lmfao I was scared of anything Horror related! I'd love to see a reimagining/remake of this game though. This and Ghost Master were two very unique Horror games that never got their dues. I seem to remember Haunting getting pretty poor reviews tbh.
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🤦♀️ I wish they're gonna make a remake of Haunting: Starring Polterguy about an family who moved into a new house that belongs to a latin jazz musician. It turns out their house is haunted by the ghost of a latin jazz musician.
Thought the same but was convinced I dreamt the boss at the end of the game because I played it so much.
The pixel art and work is outstanding on the ammount of detail and animation. Classic.
I had the privilege of stopping into John and Daves cube at EA often ( they were right across the hall) to check this out as they developed it. So cool there is a video!
Dang that’s cool! My buddy had this game back in the day, I was a 7-year-old kid watching him play this, it was so rad! Amazing you saw them making it ^_^
Such an underrated and fun game. Brings back a lot of childhood memories. The title character is like a punk rock Beetlejuice. Definitely deserved to have his own series and become a recurring character.
Remenber when EA actually made good games, this was one of Them.
+Oswald Epic Loquendero Yeah, EA non-sports games were usually awesome in the early 90s :D
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original and interesting, sure, but good? i dunno...
Still a good game to play.
@@khlothostonney5760 it was GOOD and very creative especially during that era. Most games were 2D side scrollers back then. It was a lot of fun and humorous too.
Sweet little 90s entertainment center representation in the first area there.
Can we get a fucking remake of this gem? This could be incredible in new gen graphics with all kinds of cool gore and possessing household objects
yes, this Ghostmaster and I'd love D to be given another try. It was a highly ambitious game for the Saturn, it was over 3 CD's I seem to remember and import only. I never got chance to play it and it seemed bizarre but I'd love to play the damn thing at least, even if it's terrible lmao.
Memories. I played this as a kid. It was a very different kind of game than I was used to. It frustrated me at first but when I eventually got the hang of it, I couldn’t put the controller down.
Haunting is such an underrated classic that's completely loaded with personality. There aren't many games that have made me laugh so often and so hard - I'm so glad I discovered this as a kid!
Make sure to check out my compilation of the scare scenes too! ua-cam.com/video/1am2tQBCtsw/v-deo.html
A 2D/3D remake of this game would be very cool.
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Just after james rolfe and mike matei covered it! XD
+Yellowblanka Ghost Master was pretty close :)
I've never seen this game before.
Remember Ghostmaster - a great game which was somewhat reminiscent of this except it was a god/management title.
God, I loved this game as a kid. It was almost a little eerie playing it late at night when you were the only one awake 😆
This is what Beetlejuice the game should've been like.
yes!
nothing a sprite hack couldn't fix:P
Well if you include the ads then yeah its the tv version. Not even gonna watch lol
Beetlegeuce meets the mask..
Not really because movie videgames are supposed to suck
Holy shit, I thought I never see this game again. Yessh! I am old lol.
IKR I looked it up and I got a flash ack from the good ol dayz💯😂
ME TOOO 😭😭😂
The irony being that the ghost is actually a nice fun kid while those he’s terrorizing Are total sociopaths
It's one of those game where I feel I was the only one who played it.
57:43 polterguy: did I come back to life? I came back to life! that's it I'm back to... Crap!
I had a lot of fun with this one, back in the 90s. Still one of the most original games I've ever played. The possession scares (complete with grandfather clock chimes) were really creepy.
this is such an amazing concept.
I remember playing this game when i was super young and never progressing at all but dammit if that green guy and some of these animations aren't bringing on Nostalgia flashbacks
serious nostalgia with this one. loved playing it.
This game is underrated,
a masterpiece
I agree one of the best games I ever played as a kid
Well,whatever you say bro.🤷♂️🤦♂️
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great old game, i enjoyed to play back in 90's and now with emulator
This game is scary and funny at the same time
Masterpiece
M Cyrus Yeah 😍
always laughed my arse off when they would literally piss them selfs XD this game was always on the edge
I loved this game I played it all the time I stayed up for hours playing it as a kid definitely brings back memories for me
Man just hearing the opening of this game takes me back to the time period. I remember playing this late at night while watching, “Tales from the crypt”
I thought the ending would disclose a bit more on why Polterguy is stalking the Sardinis. Polterguy starts to talk about it in one cut scene, mentioning himself skating, then abruptly ends the conversation to continue scaring. I'm assuming the Sardinis hit him with their car while he was skateboarding, and killed him. If that's the case, someone in this family got away with manslaughter, and deserves to be haunted.
+HowDoUPlay Nah, he got killed riding a faulty, cheaply made skateboard made by Sardini's company. Iirc the manual explains it much better than the game does
Thanks for the heads up. The manual definitely covers it better. I also learned that two of the guys behind this game also made Paperboy, Rampart, and 720 Degrees.
@@HowDoUPlayGames With all of the cockamamie pixel art-animated stuff going on on the streets of Paperboy, I can definitely see the lineage here
Me and my childhood homies always got a good laugh out of this game! 🤣
I loved playing this as a kid. My favourite scary creature is at 42:31
Don't remember seeing this game before.
I borrowed this game from my cousin when I was a kid and got hooked, then he sold it. Then I found it in an EA collection for the PSP and got to relive so many memories, now this just needs to come out on Switch!
scariest pranks ever in this game lol
The amount of time I spent playing this game as a kid was insane. Such a funny creative and enjoyable experience.
I like the facial expressions. Mimi looks cute when scared.
Mannn, I have been looking for this game, and I couldn't remember the name! My cousin brought this to our house back in the day. For the longest time I thought I made this game up in my head because I couldn't find it 😂 now I can chill knowing this game I loved as a kid and played briefly actually exists and isn't something I made up in my head.
Switch game developers have some untapped potential here for a great remake.
god i would love this on the NSO genesis app
this game use to scare the shit outta me as a kid but it was so much fun to play
When I was a kid, this game scared me, but when I became a adult, I wish I was never scared.
If just one of those things happened to me I would run out of the house
Yep the house is haunted by the ghost of a latin jazz musician
It reminds me of the Beetlejuice movie and another game on sega Zombies ate my neighbors.
Yeah me too
@@scarletweb2106 It's a pity they didn't make a movie about this game.
I could create a video game about a teenage girl who find a way to get back home while survive the night with cursed sea captains, ghosts and half human half demon landlords. It's called Mariposa Harbor
@@scarletweb2106Create on PC to get started.
This is certainly one of the first reverse horror games.
So with the story, this is like the aftermath of Skate or Die
Jonathan S lmao
man this family's fucking hardcore
i would've bolted it out of there almost immediately
Jaja busque mucho este juego y al fin lo encontré! No sabía su nombre, lo jugaba en mi infancia
Childhood memories
3:12 omg, I never thought that mimi has a shirt with Minecraft's creeper
Anyone else notice the girl wearing a minecraft creeper shirt, before minecraft?
I never could beat this.
When I first approached the game it was for the isometric graphics - I love that angle in 2D games, as it's especially good for very detailed locations, even if it's often inconvenient on a gameplay level; here, it's mitigated by the fact you can move freely and that great precision isn't really needed. Anyway, it took little to discover how fantastic and unique it was, the level of detail is amazing for any game at the time, many animations seem to happen only once in specific levels, you can replay many times and still discover new ones. The lack of censorship helps - it'd be a great game on the SNES too but would have lost something.
Beside that terrible, unexpected "final boss", I only take a little personal issue with the character of Vito, who looks not like a bad businessman but rather a stereotypical italo-american mafia guy.
Loved this game, they really need to remake it :)
If they did I’m going get it as soon as it drops omm
ah, loved that game as a kid, playing that game during a sleepover at a friends place.
For those who don't know, theres a game called Ghost Master on PC (Steam), which plays a little bit like The Haunting
I used to love this silly game
He’s scaring the piss outta them but for some reason it is green
I'm surprised there were no microtransactions
I was seeking this game over 15 years and I could not find it. I thought it was a Nintendo game not from Sega Genesis. But I finally found it.
The AVGN just played this game yesterday? Coincidence? 😁
Kurtis Rinker Hahaha well I've had it recorded and ready to go for awhile, so when an opportunity presented itself... ;)
Beat me to it!
Scaring the family was so fun. The only negative was when you had to go to hell or whatever to get more of the green stuff.
The sound of collecting the ecto is satisfying to me
I think this was also a movie, the ghost guy was friends with Fred Savage in that movie and they were doing scary pranks to bullies
Little Monsters
Why couldn't any of the Beetlejuice games play like this?
Ghoulishly epic
Gawd I'd love to find a copy of this for my model 1 Genesis!! It's super rare and expensive.
The european ver used to be really common and cheap but after the cinemassacre quick look its gotten pretty rare..
If it helps, the game is available on EA Replay if you have a PSP.
Cool, I just watched your old upload of this earlier, and I wished you had done more of a write-up, I like reading those. James and Mike did this one today, had me curious.
Hahaha, well I guess I timed that well then :) There's a full write-up on this one!
Good read, thanks! Off to find a copy... :)
This shit was creepy especially the music
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Her hero is Jake "The Snake" Roberts? At least she has taste.
DDT is an insecticide. The inventor is an Austrian chemist, Othmar Zeidler. She probably enjoys killing insects in her spare time.
"You wanna play 21?!"
"Do you trust me?"
@Ironman1o1 yeah I thought so too. Electronic Arts had to throw in a sneaky Jake Roberts reference for Mimi Sardini’s bio.
In my head remembering back to the game it was the graphics of at least sims 2... im shocked
Some of this stuff would be a pretty fun addition to a game of The Sims TBH
14:06,14:21,28:38-*tantrum mode activated*ahhhh waaaaaaaaaaaaawaaaaaaaaawaaaaaawawawawawawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWAAAAAAAAAAAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*bands fists on floor*
Memories
Wasn't scary at all but too much funny and weird at the same time 🤣
Sega the best.
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"I'M A CAPITALIST! I'm a Capitalist, and I deserve respect, accorded to that title!"
Did someone beat me to it?
I never heard of this game until I ran into AVGN playing it, which was like a year or so ago, but I found yesterday, and now I'm struggling to find much on it. Like, how do game overs work? Can you be seen? Exercised? Can they get used to you and not be scared anymore if you do it wrong?
If I recall correctly, the heart beat signifies how scared they are. Higher the beat, the more scared they are. After a few scares, they may run into another room. If you leave them alone for too long, they’ll calm down. If they go back into a room you already were in, you can’t repossess the items you’ve already possessed. You need the globs of green goo to be able to possess things, and if that runs out, I believe a spirit comes to collect you. Also, Evil spirits can come attack you randomly, and them hitting you makes you lose the ectoplasm. I think if you run out, game over, start from the beginning.
Of course, I haven’t played this for YEARS, so I’m a little hazy on the rules
I wish I create a video game about a 18th century sea captain who is cursed by a witch and builds an apartment out of his ship. Until a teenage girl accidentally came to Mariposa Harbor via a magical whistle and learned to survive the night with whistling tree spirits, ghosts and half human half demon landlords. I greenlight my video game to Nintendo Switch
36:55-36:58 Uh... Polterguy, are you sure that was a scare?
Never underestimate the spook of a cowboy skeleton
I couldn't remember the name of this game. I had fun with it when I rented it one day from blockbuster.
This game Needs a remake
"Haunt The House" is kind of a spiritual successor to this without the gore or isometric perspective.
Makes me wonder why Flo Sardini runs slow compared to the rest of her family like Tony and Mimi, even Vito runs faster than Flo.
She's wearing high heels
I found this game for 25 bucks...should I buy???
Definitely it’s worth every penny classic
There was another game where we used to become ghosts and haunt in hospitals and places... I am not able to remember its name.. It was a very old game tho
Ghost Master?
I create a video game about the ghost of a sea captain who haunts an cafe in New Orleans, Louisiana that a family moves in during my fall semester
WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU RUN OUT OF ECTO?
You have to go to the dungeon to collect more
This is know how to freak with these people for every house and every rooms to get off with?
Heh... Sega do what Nintendon't So much gore and blood :D
Except in the little instances where NOA forgot to 100% edit the game ;-)
Techicnally the only thing Sega did censor was nudity and sometimes cussing. Everything else was fine.
Sega didn't even make this game, neither does this game having blood make Sega better. How much Sega games are there fondly remembered and not forgotten because Sega can't use it's IP's?
HA HA HA HA HA SO FUNNY TO ITS LIKE ADAMS FAMILY
I literally typed into Google “game for snes where you scare people”. I still can’t remember if this is the same game in my vague one frame memory I have of it, but it seems almost the same. I remember there being blood in mine for some reason though
Am I'm seeing what looks like proper transparency on the Mega Drive here? Or is it just a really good way of making it look transparent via some smart design? :-o
Where do u see transperency? Check out Batman & Robin it has some cool effects like transparent graphics especially on the mad hatter boss level
Apparently there's some kind of shadow/highlight graphical mode on the Genesis that can basically say "show X pixels but with black overlayed or these pixels but with white overlayed", so that probably explains why Polterguy has that black & white leather jacket, he's a sprite made up of funky black-shadow or white-highlight transparency pixels when the Sardinis are present, you can kind of tell that his green head and hands don't have the same transparency
@@evenmorebetter You might just be right on that one. Good observation and indeed understanding of what the Genesis is capable of.
Blue_Yoshi Ask You Done So Well Back in 14.10.2014 For Around 3 Year Ago...
Sega Genesis Unlike This Game So Replace in 9.10.2017 For Around 6 Months Ago. Great Job Keep Up Good Work.😍💖🎮⭐👍
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I had it in psp.
Hmm…. I remember when playing it I keep ran out of Ecto. Did I do something wrong?
I could never play this right
I played this game a few times as a kid and it was fun scaring these people to piss themselves but i really didn't care for it. It was boring.
is there a game like this in 2024? desperately need onee
Muy buen juego y muy difícil
Look like the sims but more scary
También salió para Nintendo? Yo lo jugué en SEGA
This game was my shit
Giant anvil?
Don't you hate it when a random, ironic anvil falls on top of you?
I guess so. Especially right after you turn human again.
Right? Only thing missing is the Acme logo and some rocket-equipped rollerskates!
Rrrrrright.
Please remake it for the switch!!
Nintendo Switch please remake Haunting starring Polterguy!
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