Point_Man: "classic from a gaming catalog that we actually pulled out of bankruptcy courts for the defunct publisher who once published them. That will give us a large catalog of games"
Wonder which publisher's catalog they've obtained. They also said they are working with Japanese publishers to bring some of their games to PC as well.
Well, Capcom isn't bankrupt, so that leave's the already mentioned Sweet Home.
Lucasgames technically isn't dead, just frozen in a mouse shaped vault, so that takes them out...along with Maniac Mansion.
Konami, while they suck and have left the business, still exist so they're not the ones. That leaves Castlevania and more out.
Atlus, while on hard times, still exist to this very day, so we're not getting the blessing of Megami Tensei.
Namco/Bandai still exists, so that leaves out the few NES horror games they did. Including a JVC developed Splatterhouse game.
FCI surprisingly enough still exists. That puts Dr. Chaos off the table.
Data East died eons ago, so there goes Werewolf: The Last Warrior.
Zombie Nation sucked and both companies associated with it appear to have vanished.
Kemco suprisingly still exists, while Icom was dissolved eons ago. Uninvited is probably off the table.
So...that takes all the
good games out of the picture.
Leaving us with LJN, THQ, Electro Brain, and Psygnosis.
The problem with any of those four choices is the games remaining all suck. Of the potential, I only think one doesn't have a character licence attached to it, and the other is borrowed from the public domain.
Of course in my overreading of this list, I may have misread/not collated enough data to come to a conclusion.
But to put things in a very blunt light, aside from Sweet Home, the NES simply
didn't do horror, not only due to system limitations, but also due to NOA putting a very firm foot on throat in terms of content restrictions.
