Personal Nightmare
{{Short description|1989 video game}}
{{More citations needed|date=November 2013}}
{{Infobox video game
|title = Personal Nightmare
|image = Personal Nightmare cover.jpg
|developer = Horror Soft
|publisher = Horror Soft
|director = Mike Woodroffe
|producer = Mike Woodroffe
|designer = Keith Wadhams
|programmer = Alan Bridgman
Alan Cox
|artist = Teoman Irmak
|released = 1989
|genre = Adventure
|modes = Single-player
|platforms = Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS
}}
Personal Nightmare is a horror adventure game developed and published by Horror Soft for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS in 1989. It was released digitally by Adventure Soft in July 2009 on GOG.com.{{cite web |title=New release: Personal Nightmare |url=https://www.gog.com/news/new_release_personal_nightmare |website=GOG.com |publisher=CD Projekt |access-date=22 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531194905/http://www.gog.com/en/news/new_release_personal_nightmare/2009/07 |archive-date=31 May 2012 |date=2 July 2009 |url-status=live}}
Plot
Gameplay
The game makes use of a combination of text-based commands, clickable verbal commands and clickable objects to progress. A compass indicates which directions the player can travel. Much of the game's movement and actions are real-time based so there is a day and night cycle. The player's inventory can be viewed in the respective menu. There are many encounters that can kill the player (ideally at night time) unless the player performs a proper action to avoid them. Newer versions of the game omitted the encounters where the players gets garroted. The player loses the game if four days pass and all the required possessed citizens have not been killed and the devil has not been repelled.
Reception
{{Video game reviews
| rev1 = Zzap!64
| rev2 = CU Amiga
| rev3 = Datormagazin
}}
Personal Nightmare was generally well-received, including the ratings of 87% by Zzap! (Amiga),{{cite journal |date=September 1989 |title=Personal Nightmare Review from Zzap 53 (Sep 1989) - Amiga Magazine Rack |url=http://amr.abime.net/review_5854 |issue=53 |pages=20, 21 |access-date=9 November 2013}} 84% by Computer + Video Games (Amiga and Atari ST),{{cite journal |date=August 1989 |title=Personal Nightmare Review from Computer + Video Games 93b (Aug 1989) - Amiga Magazine Rack |url=http://amr.abime.net/review_24401 |issue=93b |page=79 |access-date=9 November 2013}} 74% by CU Amiga (Amiga) {{cite journal |date=July 1989 |title=Personal Nightmare Review from CU Amiga-64 (Jul 1989) - Amiga Magazine Rack |url=http://amr.abime.net/review_9584 |page=62 |access-date=9 November 2013}} and 7/10 by Datormagazin (Amiga).{{cite journal |date=August 1989 |title=Personal Nightmare Review from Datormagazin Vol 1989 No 11 (Aug 1989) - Amiga Magazine Rack |url=http://amr.abime.net/review_31088 |issue=11 |pages= 14, 15 |access-date=9 November 2013}}
References
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External links
- {{atarimania|id=10208}}
- {{Lemon Amiga game|id=830}}
- {{abime|id=1032}}
{{Adventure Soft}}
Category:1980s horror video games
Category:Fiction about the Devil
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Category:Single-player video games
Category:Video games about vampires