| Demon's World/Horror Story | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Toaplan |
| Publisher(s) | Taito Corporation Toaplan (in some regions) |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, PC Engine (as Horror Story) |
| Release date(s) | 1989 |
| Genre(s) | Platform game |
| Mode(s) | Up to 2 players, simultaneously |
| Arcade system | Main CPU : 68000 (@ 10 MHz), Z80 (@ 3.5 MHz), TMS32010 (@ 3.5 MHz) Sound Chips : YM3812 (@ 3.5 MHz) |
| Display | Screen orientation : Horizontal, Video resolution : 320 x 240 pixels, Aspect ratio : 4/3, Screen refresh : 55.16 Hz, Palette colors : 2048 |
Demon's World (known in Japan as Horror Story (ホラーストーリー)) is a platformer arcade game that was developed by Toaplan and published by Taito in 1989. This game is multi-regional, meaning that it can be configured for different regions via the DIP switches. These settings change the legal warnings, can display the Taito licensing message and can change the title between the English version (Demon's World) and the Japanese version (Horror Story). [1]
Demon's World consists of several linear autoscrolling stages. Armed with a gun, complete with energy pack similar to the Ghostbusters, the player must shoot or jump on various ghosts and monsters that infest each area. Along the way, the player can collect a power-up to change his gun to fire lasers, bombs, or even 3-way bullets.
The game's opening stages begin in an eastern setting, featuring various spirits and creatures of Japanese folklore. Some of these include karakasa, chochinobake, kappa, hitotsume-kozou and rokurokubi. The game then changes course, moving to a ghostly pirate ship and then the haunted American Old West, featuring a ghost town and a canyon inhabited by traditional ghosts and monsters familiar to western culture like Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, and even Jason Voorhees look-alikes. The game's final stretch takes place in a medieval setting complete with cursed castles and dungeons infested with haunted armor, goblins and dragons.
Horror Story was ported and released, only in Japan, on February 26, 1993 for the PC Engine Super CD-ROM² video game console. This port was published by NEC Interchannel (then NEC Avenue).