Haunting Starring Polterguy
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System(s): Sega Mega Drive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Electronic Arts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: EA Creative Developments | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distributor: Tec Toy (BR) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Action | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Haunting Starring Polterguy is a Sega Mega Drive comedy horror simulation game developed by EA Creative Developments and published by Electronic Arts. First released in the United States in October 1993, the game is most notable for its unique premise and gameplay design, and for its large number of detailed animation sequences.
Contents
Gameplay
You play as Polterguy, a ghost whose task is to haunt the Sardinis, a family of snobs, out of the houses they keep moving into. You do this by taking control of various inanimate objects scattered around the house and loading them with traps that the family members will encounter, scaring them. The object to load with a trap is indicated by a mark resembling a flash of light; hit once to "go into" the object and
again to get out.
and {{}} do something; exactly what is unknown (TODO).
After successfully scaring a family member out of the room they are in, pieces of "ecto" drop from above; collect them to refill your "ecto" meter (which goes down as you play). If your meter empties, you will be taken to the Underworld, where you must collect all the pieces of "ecto" to escape.
History
During development, Haunting Starring Polterguy was known under the working title of simply Haunting.
Production credits
- Design: Dave Ralston, John Salwitz
- Programming: John Salwitz, Keith Roberson
- Graphics: Will Noble, Dave Ralston, Carolly Hauksdottir, Greg Williams, Cynthia Hamilton
- Music & Sound Effects: Tony Berkeley, Michael Bartlow, Don Veca
- Producer: Don Traeger
- Associate Producer: Scott Gilliland
- Technical Director: John Brooks
- Product Testing: John Boerio, Eric Newhouse
- Product Manager: Dave Neubecker
- Marketing Art Direction: Nancy Waisanen
- Package Design: Jim Blair
- Documentation: Michael Humes
- Documentation Layout: Corey Higgins
- Quality Assurance: Walter Ianneo, Erik "Whitey" Whiteford
- Special Thanks to: Connie Braat, Tom Collie, Jessie Fremont, Marc Gilliland, Gordan Bellamy
Magazine articles
- Main article: Haunting Starring Polterguy/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
- Hobby Consolas (ES) #24: "Septiembre 1993" (1993-xx-xx)[6]
Physical scans
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Technical information
- Main article: Haunting Starring Polterguy/Technical information.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 GamePro, "October 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 70
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Computer & Video Games, "October 1993" (UK; 1993-09-15), page 52
- ↑ Sega Force Mega, "January 1994" (UK; 1993-12-16), page 100
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mega, "October 1993" (UK; 1993-09-16), page 36
- ↑ File:Haunting MD US Manual.pdf, page 15
- ↑ Hobby Consolas, "Septiembre 1993" (ES; 1993-xx-xx), page 2
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "October 1993" (UK; 1993-xx-xx)
- ↑ Aktueller Software Markt, "Februar 1994" (DE; 1994-01-10), page 36
- ↑ Consoles +, "Octobre 1993" (FR; 1993-xx-xx), page 134
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 178
- ↑ Electronic Games (1992-1995), "October 1993" (US; 1993-09-23), page 60
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 347
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 4, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 119
- ↑ GamePro, "October 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 68
- ↑ Gamers, "Oktober/November 1993" (DE; 1993-09-24), page 62
- ↑ GamesMaster (UK) "Series 3, episode 2" (1993-09-16, 24:00) (+8:39)
- ↑ Game Informer, "September/October 1993" (US; 1993-0x-xx), page 32
- ↑ Hobby Consolas, "Septiembre 1993" (ES; 1993-xx-xx), page 102
- ↑ Hyper, "January 1994" (AU; 199x-xx-xx), page 65
- ↑ Joypad, "Octobre 1993" (FR; 1993-xx-xx), page 74
- ↑ Mega Action, "October 1993" (UK; 1993-09-09), page 30
- ↑ Mega Force, "Octobre 1993" (FR; 1993-10-08), page 116
- ↑ Mega Fun, "10/93" (DE; 1993-09-22), page 32
- ↑ Mega Power, "September 1993" (UK; 1993-08-19), page 22
- ↑ MegaTech, "September 1993" (UK; 1993-08-20), page 84
- ↑ Magazina Igrushek, "1/1996" (RU; 1996-xx-xx), page 56
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "October 1993" (UK; 1993-08-28), page 99
- ↑ Megazone, "October 1993" (AU; 1993-xx-xx), page 38
- ↑ Player One, "Octobre 1993" (FR; 1993-xx-xx), page 112
- ↑ Power Unlimited, "Nummer 5, December 1993" (NL; 1993-12-01), page 46
- ↑ Score, "Srpen 1994" (CZ; 1994-08-01), page 56
- ↑ Sega Magazin, "November/Dezember 1993" (DE; 1993-11-03), page 44
- ↑ Sega Power, "October 1993" (UK; 1993-09-02), page 68
- ↑ Sega Pro, "October 1993" (UK; 1993-09-09), page 62
- ↑ Sega Zone, "September 1993" (UK; 1993-08-xx), page 64
- ↑ Sega Force Mega, "Autumn 1993" (UK; 1993-09-16), page 98
- ↑ Todo Sega, "Septiembre 1993" (ES; 1993-0x-xx), page 66
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 84
- ↑ Video Games, "1/94" (DE; 1993-12-19), page 87
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