Haunted House (video game)

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Haunted House is a 1982 adventure game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600. The player controls a character presented by a pair of eyes peering in the dark as they explore a mansion seeking out parts of an urn to return to the entrance. The game world is populated by roaming enemies including vampire bats, tarantulas, and a ghost. Haunted House was among the first games to use player-controlled scrolling between large portions of the visual space. Haunted House received positive reviews from contemporary video game publications such as The Space Gamer and Electronic Games, while others, such as How to Win at Home Video Games, noted the game's difficulty and lack of intuitiveness. The game has seen several releases across consoles and formats as part of Atari compilation packages as well as follow-up games, such as Haunted House (2010) and Haunted House: Cryptic Graves (2014), and Haunted House (2023). Critics such as Christopher Buecheler of GameSpy have called Haunted...

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