The latest survival horror remaster goes back to 1995 and the dawn of survival horror, with seminal Japanese classic Clock Tower.
Video game publishers aren’t usually very good at being topical and rarely manage to get new horror games out in time for anywhere near Halloween. We’ve got a bumper crop this year though, led by the Silent Hill 2 remake but also including A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead, Fear The Spotlight, and, in early November, Slitterhead. Clock Tower: Rewind can also be added to the list, although it’s actually a remaster of a much older game.
Horror-themed video games are almost as old as the industry itself and in that the sense the original Clock Tower can’t claim to be anywhere near the first. It was originally released for the SNES in 1995, by which point the original PlayStation had already been out for almost a year and the first Resident Evil was mere months away from launch.
Coming out so late in the console’s lifetime, and given its unusual subject matter and gameplay, Clock…
