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"If you did not answer Yes My Gatekeeper in time... you are banished... to the Black Hole." - The Gatekeeper

Anybody else remember playing the VHS Board Game Nightmare when you were little? You would pop in the VHS, and start a race against time... collecting Keys, startling other players... and of course, obeying The Gatekeeper.

Well, apparently The Gatekeeper came back recently. I was looking around at my local Suncoast the other day when I saw it, Atmosfear! Though the name of the game changed, I'm blessed by the company of my old friend The Gatekeeper... still making fun of my "silly" name and still more than ready to banish me to the Black Hole.

The new game comes with a DVD this time, which makes the game even better. You let it know which characters are being used, for example... Baron Samedi, the Zombie... and the Gatekeeper will now call you by name on occasion. A very nice touch. Another improvement is that with the old VHS, you eventually remembered when The Gatekeeper would appear... who The Gatekeeper would call... and what The Gatekeeper wanted. The move to DVD does away with the mundane. Now it's more or less random, when and if The Gatekeeper will show up. Is he here to reward you? Punish you? You have to watch to find out.

Anyway, I guess that's all I have to say. Anybody else play these games when you were little? Still play them?

Yes! I had the VHS version when I was little.

I even entered a local tournament at a record store back in the late 1980s/early 1990s (whenever it was). I lost badly, despite cheating the whole way through.

I think I gave up because it had limited replayability. The DVD might be cool, simply because of alternate paths and such available.

If you were playing games on VHS tapes when you were little you are not old

pleasurebay wrote:If you were playing games on VHS tapes when you were little you are not old

"The old one" was just a way to make the VHS more interactive. There were quite a few of these titles that The Gatekeeper would hand out. For instance... towards the beginning of the game, he would pick his "Chosen One". Everybody would roll the dice, and whoever got the highest number became "The Chosen One"... The Gatekeeper's eyes and ears for while he's away. "The old one" was simply a title given to the oldest person playing the game as a way for The Gatekeeper to call him out.

That shows you what I know