I recently learned of a horror game so obscure that it has never once surfaced in my two decades of horror research. Now that I have obtained it, I can share it with you. Behold, the first (only?) horror-fishing hybrid: KILLER BASS. 🧵cc @horrorvisuals @game_obscure pic.twitter.com/Zzu720z1ye
— Chris Pruett (@c_pruett) August 15, 2022
From a much longer thread with gameplay videos:
Oh, and I almost forgot. A+ box art. pic.twitter.com/1hjFxmL571
— Chris Pruett (@c_pruett) August 15, 2022
The story is explained in this intro cutscene and the manual. 50 years ago an experimental prototype "KILLER BASS JACK" escaped its lab and has left a trail of bodies in its wake. The Killer Bass Cup has been organized to try to catch him, and you're going to win it. pic.twitter.com/QxvMEhXRlZ
— Chris Pruett (@c_pruett) August 15, 2022
Unbelievably savage. pic.twitter.com/LbGKY4QOm8
— Chris Pruett (@c_pruett) August 15, 2022
Getting back to the horror part, every stage opens with a unique intro movie. There are four areas, each with a day and night version, plus a final boss stage. All of the intro videos are great. Here's the intro for MOON PALACE (NIGHT). pic.twitter.com/7Y0pZtqidy
— Chris Pruett (@c_pruett) August 15, 2022
Nightmare Fishing Tournament 3D, Our Lady of the Drowned Lake, and Visitors: Marine Invasion, too! Honestly, I think the potential of this horror-fishing subgenre needs to be explored even more!
— オカピMACHINEGUN (@fuffyfaf) August 16, 2022
you might enjoy the fishing horror jam games https://t.co/ptxnnaHHTY
— 🐱ri-Warui (@oleivarrudi) August 16, 2022
Reminded me of this:
any decent arcade deserves a typing of the dead cabinet pic.twitter.com/XW7qFyMr4Z
— KRIS THE GRAFTED (@krisgraft) August 15, 2022