Nightmare in the Dark SP?

Rick Dangerous

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Hey ya'll

Doing some Halloween gaming on my MVS, and noticed on my 161-1 banana cart there is a "Nightmare in the Dark SP" version of the game.

Anyone know what this adds to the game?

Thanks!
 

Rick Dangerous

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Also playing Magician Lord and Ghost Pilots, anything else you guys can think of that would qualify as "Halloween" for MVS/AES? Thanks!

Or even a Halloween themes level/track in a game?
 

Neo Alec

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You can nix Ghost Pilots from that list. There's nothing Halloween about that.

How about...
Ghostlop
Metal Slug 3 (3rd stage zombie level)
Art of Fighting 2 (King's stage)
Baseball Stars has the Ghastly Monsters team
 
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2D_mastur

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You can nix Ghost Pilots from that list. There's nothing Halloween about that.

How about...
Ghostlop
Metal Slug 3 (3rd stage zombie level)
Art of Fighting 2 (King's stage)

If you are going by select stages and not games as a whole... Zupapa! Has a very Halloween-y stage.

Metal Slug 4 four has the zombie house and giant Frankenstein monster.

Metal Slug 5 final boss is a giant Lovecraftian daemon.

Also Magician Lord has demons,warlocks and monsters ... even Satanic looking symbols. I would call it dark fantasy.

Crossed swords can also qualify with all the skeletons, winged demon-knights, juggalo-warlock and Satan Goats.
 
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Metal Slug 3 is a great choice. Island of Doctor Moreau, Zombie outbreak, ancient gods, mummies, alien mothership. It totally counts as a Halloween type game.

Magician Lord and maybe... Prehistoric Isle 2? Like 2d Master said above, Magician Lord is fantasy and Prehistoric isle is sci-fi.
 

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Metal Slug 3 is a great choice. Island of Doctor Moreau, Zombie outbreak, ancient gods, mummies, alien mothership. It totally counts as a Halloween type game.

Magician Lord and maybe... Prehistoric Isle 2? Like 2d Master said above, Magician Lord is fantasy and Prehistoric isle is sci-fi.

PI2 final boss does remind me of Cthulhu...

For Japanese culture horror games... Sengoku, Sengoku 2 and Ganryu have some folk monsters, demons, necromancy, skeletons, zombies and spirits.
 
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Neo Alec

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Not Neo Geo, but the Mexico stage in KOF XIV has a Day of the Dead theme.
 

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Second level in Metal Slug 2/X - Egypt with Mummies and Mummy dogs. The Sengoku games - you're basically killing undead stuff the whole way through and there are lots of skulls. Is that the mid boss in Sengoku 2 stage 2 or 3 where it's the huge skeleton on the side of the ship? Spooky times...
 

Rick Dangerous

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Great tips all around guys; thanks!

No info on the SP version of that game? Guess I'll just have to play it and find out.
 

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SamSho V has that big monster thing—Kusaregedo—with the pile of bodies on his stage. Always thought that was a bit spooky.

Darkstalkers if we want to branch outside Neo Geo
 
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2D_mastur

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SamSho V has that big monster thing—Kusaregedo—with the pile of bodies on his stage. Always thought that was a bit spooky.

Darkstalkers if we want to branch outside Neo Geo
That stage is fucking bad-ass.
 

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Mutation Nation is the 2nd best Neo Halloween game. I would've been looking for a cart if I could've done a Halloween party this year....

Not sure what the deal is with NitD SP - probably some lame hack-y stuff. The original NitD is perfect, honestly my favorite Bubble Bobble type game. Soundtrack is BANGIN
 

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You can nix Ghost Pilots from that list. There's nothing Halloween about that.

How about...
Ghostlop
Metal Slug 3 (3rd stage zombie level)
Art of Fighting 2 (King's stage)
Baseball Stars has the Ghastly Monsters team

You forgot the homing missiles in Ghost Pilots. They scare me to this day. So it qualifies for Halloween, for me;-) And you are a Ghost Pilot.
 
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Nothing on the Neo is more horrific than Gururin. Crouching naked men painfully morphing into big humanoid cats, lips fusing together, a beautiful naked woman turning into a monstrous old man's face... David Cronenberg would be proud. And that childish, disturbing laugh, my God! :( The only Neo game that really scares me.
 
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Neo Alec

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Gururin belongs in all the worst game threads.
 

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I quit Gururin after a minute because I didn’t understand it and thought it was bad.
 

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I had high hopes for Gururin because of the other Face entries on the Neo, (Money Idol, Zupapa) but man, Gururin is a stinker.
 

Shmuppy

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I quit Gururin after a minute because I didn’t understand it and thought it was bad.

Yeah man. Same here. Some rotation, my brain... Fuck this game. It makes no sense.
 
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