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Haunted: Halloween ’86’ Arrives on Xbox One in 8-bit Glory

Retrotainment’s old school 8-bit video game Haunted: Halloween ’86 has officially arrived for digital purchase on both PC and Xbox One.

“We are releasing a copy of the game in all its pixelated, 8-bit, retro glory for your PC and Xbox One,” the team announced (h/t Bloody Disgusting). “The cartridge version can be purchased online for those who still have a working console!

86 has been upgraded in every way! You can utilize Tag Team Technology to swap between the two playable characters on the fly throughout the game to take advantage of their separate skills and health meters.

The combat system has been completely overhauled from the original and now includes many powerful, new attack moves, defensive moves and evasive moves. We also learned how to do things like split-screen scrolling for parallaxing, animated backgrounds and interactive background objects.

There are many new haunts to battle along the way.

You can decapitate zombies and then use their removed heads as weapons, combo moves together to smash through the heinous hordes that are taking over the town and find hidden power ups to enhance combat moves and even smash those annoying pumpkins.”

Anthony DiMoro

Covering Content Creators, Twitch, YouTube, Streamers & the digital culture. Anthony has written for publications such as Forbes and the Huffington Post, among others, during his career.

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