Frightmare
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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This is a platform-game, where you play as a man who's experiencing a horrible nightmare. And if you die in it, you die for real...

Your mission is to survive long enough to wake up. For every room you visit, another 6 minutes goes by, and at 8:12 the alarm clock will ring, and save your life.

Your secondary objective is to increase your dream-state. You start with a "bad dream", but by killing monsters, and collecting chalices, you can get much worse dreams, like "horrible dream" or "deadly vision". Your dream-state is displayed in text-form at the top of the screen, and does not affect the game in any other way.

This is a horror game, and you will face zombies, bats, ghosts, and other terrifying creatures. If they touch you, you lose one of your five lives. You can collect different items, like guns, crucifixes, clocks, and other stuff. Your inventory can hold up to three items at once.

You can kill some enemies with the gun, but many are immune to it. Crucifixes can freeze enemies, and clocks slows them down.

The game consists of a huge maze of interconnected rooms. It's easy to get lost, and the game is almost impossible to complete, even if you cheat. So this is for anyone who wants a big challenge.

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Description from the packaging:

An action arcade journey into your worst dreams.
It seems simple enough. Go to sleep at midnight, wake up at eight. But just when you think it's safe to close your eyes, something happens. Everything you've always feared starts to move, slouching out of the deepest recesses of your mind. Closer and closer they come. Foul-smelling, hellish things dripping with the primordial ooze of your darkest fears. It's going to be a long night.
Can you make it through the night?

Midnight- The journey begins.

1. Get six minutes closer to waking from your nightmare.
2. This is you, getting ready to run.
3. Stockpile bullets. You're going to need them.
4. Don't worry, it's only a werewolf.
5. Escape through this portal.

1:30 A.M.- Maybe it was the pizza.

1. The dream state changes as things get worse.
2. Silver bullets. Good against Zombies and Satan.
3. Holy Water. Cleans up spiders and disembodied hands.
4. Don't worry, it's only the Grim Reaper.
5. A crucifix. Freezes serpents, among others.

2:48 A.M.- This is getting serious.

1. Disembodied hands.
2. Only 5 hours, 24 minutes to go.
3. Transporters. When you need to leave in a hurry.
4. Don't worry, it's only a Will O' The Wisp.
5. A Chalice. Almost as good as the magic Wings and Rings.

Creature features:

85 Different levels.
15 Different animated creatures.
7 Dream states, each described in 15 horrible ways.
9 Different weapons and talismans to get you through the night.

Multiple paths to successful completion.
Special sound and music.
Better than sleep.



http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/frightmare
