Demon's World/Horror Story
Developer(s)	Toaplan
Publisher(s)	Taito Corporation Toaplan (in some regions)
Release date(s)	1989
Genre(s)	Platform game
Mode(s)	Up to 2 players, simultaneously
Platform(s)	Arcade game
Input	Joystick (8-way), 3 buttons
Arcade system(s)	Main CPU : 68000 (@ 10 MHz), Z80 (@ 3.5 MHz), TMS32010 (@ 3.5 MHz) Sound Chips : YM3812 (@ 3.5 MHz)

Demon's World, known in Japan as Horror Story (ホラーストーリー), is a platformer arcade game that was developed by Toaplan and published by Taito in 1989. A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ... Toaplan was a video game developer from Japan. ... Video game publishers are companies that publish video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer. ... The Taito Corporation (タイトー株式会社, taitou kabushikigaisha) TYO: 9646 is a Japanese developer of video game software and arcade hardware. ... Toaplan was a video game developer from Japan. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a listing of computer and video game genres with brief descriptions and examples from each genre. ... Platform game, or platformer, is a video game genre characterized by the character having to climb up and down, or jump from and to, platforms and ledges, while fighting enemies and collecting objects required to complete the game. ... Centipede by Atari is a typical example of a 1980s era arcade game. ... For other uses, see Joystick (disambiguation). ... An arcade system board is a standardized printed circuit board or group of printed circuit boards that are used as the basis for multiple arcade games with very similar hardware requirements. ... Platform game, or platformer, is a video game genre characterized by the character having to climb up and down, or jump from and to, platforms and ledges, while fighting enemies and collecting objects required to complete the game. ... Centipede by Atari is a typical example of a 1980s era arcade game. ... Toaplan was a video game developer from Japan. ... The Taito Corporation (タイトー株式会社, taitou kabushikigaisha) TYO: 9646 is a Japanese developer of video game software and arcade hardware. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Gameplay

Demon's World consists of several linear autoscrolling stages. Armed with a gun, complete with energy pack similar to the Ghostbusters, the player must shoot or jump on various ghosts and monsters that infest each area. Along the way, the player can collect a power-up to change his gun to fire lasers, bombs, or even 3-way bullets. For other uses, see Ghostbusters (disambiguation). ...

The game's opening stages begin in an eastern setting, featuring various spirits and creatures of Japanese folklore. Some of these include karakasa, chochinobake, kappa, hitotsume-kozou and rokurokubi. The game then changes course, moving to a ghostly pirate ship and then the haunted American Old West, featuring a ghost town and a canyon inhabited by traditional ghosts and monsters familiar to western culture like Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, and even Jason Vorhees look-alikes. The game's final stretch takes place in a medieval setting complete with cursed castles and dungeons infested with haunted armor, goblins and dragons. Japanese mythology is an extremely complex religion and system of beliefs. ... A Karakasa toy. ... Chochinobake (Jp:提灯お化け, paper lantern ghost) are a type of Tsukumogami, a form of Japanese Spirit that originate from objects reaching their 100th year of existence, thus becoming animate. ... A drawing of a kappa which was reported to have been caught in a net on Mito East beach in 1801. ... Hitotsume-kozou (一つ目小僧, one-eyed boys) are goblins found in Japanese folklore. ... Rokurokubi (ろくろ首) are goblins or demons found in Japanese folklore. ... A typical archetype, the cowboy, in the Wild West. ... A street corner in the ghost town of Bodie, California. ... Boris Karloff as Frankensteins monster, along with Elsa Lanchester, in Bride of Frankenstein Frankensteins monster (sometimes Frankensteins creature or the Frankenstein monster) is a creature first appearing in Mary Shelleys novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. ... Dracula (1897) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, and the name of the worlds most famous vampire character. ... Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood Jason Voorhees is a fictional character from the Friday the 13th series of slasher films. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...

Ports

Horror Story was ported and released, only in Japan, on February 26, 1993 for the PC Engine Super CD-ROM² video game console. This port was published by NEC Interchannel. February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The PC Engine was a video game console released by NEC, a Japanese company, in 1987. ... A video game console is a dedicated electronic machine designed to play video games. ...

Screenshots

Trivia

• The game is multi-regional, meaning that it can be configured for different regions via the DIP switches. These settings change the legal warnings, can display the Taito licensing message and can change the title between the English version (Demon's World) and the Japanese version (Horror Story). [1]

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External links

• Coin Op Museum's take on Demon's World