Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland forum. Join our community and participate in a collection of forum threads, questions, answers, and other discussions about Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland. Escape from Horrorland is an FMV Goosebumps video game that was released in 1996. The game acts as a sequel to the Goosebumps book, One Day at HorrorLand. Lizzy, one of the protagonists from the book, calls the player character to her that night, stating that her brother Luke and friend Clay have suddenly disappeared after a strange bout of. Description of Goosebumps Escape from Horrorland. Here is the video game “Goosebumps Escape from Horrorland”! Released in 1996 on Windows, it's still available and playable with some tinkering. It's an adventure game, set in a horror, licensed title and full motion video themes.
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The Goosebumps PC games in the 90’s brought two of the books to life for horror fans everywhere. Dreamworks Interactive worked on both Escape from Horrorland (1996) and Attack of the Mutant (1997).
By the late 90’s, especially 1997, things were winding down for the series. The original books run of books finished. Tales to give you Goosebumpsfinished. By 1998, the TV episodes stopped. Of course, there were plenty more Goosebumps books released in the ‘Goosebumps 2000’ line, but the hype was slowing down.
Goosebumps as a series always had a very consistent campy, B-Grade horror movie feel. The books always finished with a twist ending. The TV episodes were made on a low budget. The Goosebumps PC games took a very different approach to bring the series to life.
Escape from Horrorland
The Horrorland book made an amazing setting for both the TV programme and the first Goosebumps video game, released in 1996. Using real-action footage, miniatures, puppets and plenty of green screen, Escape from Horrorland is presented as a complete Full Motion Video game, or Interactive Story.
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The big difference here? It’s a really good FMV game. Escape from Horrorland captures the Goosebumps feel incredibly well. There’s so many different sections within the park that introduce characters from different books, like the Scarecrow that Walks at Midnight, as well as the Mummy, Vampires, Werewolves and of course, the Horrors themselves.
You start the game in Werewolf village, which is an incredibly sleepy European style village surrounded by dense woodland. The atmosphere here at the start of the game is fantastic. You won’t see a loose werewolf for a little while yet, but that won’t stop you from hearing them. Your goal is to get Lizzy’s brother and his friend free from the stocks.
Through the woods, you’ll discover Horrorland Plaza, and a little further again, Bat Barn. A barn surrounded by Jack-O-Lanterns where you’ll encounter the Scarecrow. Once you make it past Bat Barn, you’ll come to the Valley of the Kings. An Egyptian themed area where you need to enter (and survive) the giant temple and go toe-to-toe with the Mummy.
Horrorland Plaza is a great opportunity to catch up on a little backstory, visit the movie theatre and ride the Doom Slides. The museum at the Horrorland Plaza holds the items needed to free the boys back in Werewolf Village but beware. You’ll need to find Lizzy afterwards, and she’s got company.
Once you’ve helped Lizzy survive a Werewolf attack, make it past the Scarecrow at Bat Barn and saved Luke from the Mummy in the Valley of the Kings, you’ll be able to ride the number 10 Doom Slide all the way to Vampire Village.
Vampire Village feels a lot larger than Werewolf Village, but the population here is just as blood hungry. The main area of Vampire Village is the Vampire’s castle where a large celebration is happening. Lizzy and Luke need to save Clay from being the main course and of course, make a fast retreat.
The best way to travel, except the Doom Slide of course, is the Coffin ride. Lizzy, Luke and Clay each find a coffin that takes them downstream. As you travel, you get to squish the buys crawling all over you. The good news is your trip doesn’t take long.
Finally, you find yourself at the Monster Zoo, filled with terrible creatures and animals. Once you manage to fish the key out of the octopus tank, you’ve reached the final strange challenge in Horrorland. An arena filled with all the monsters you’ve had to encounter, surrounding you, waiting for you to die. Now is your chance to face the main villain and the creator of Horrorland, Madison Storm.
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Being an FMV game, you spend a lot of time exploring the park, discovering the items you need and solving puzzles. Hidden below the park, we also have a secret mini-game with a voracious tunnel monster. On top of trying to survive Horrorland, solving the puzzles and progressing, you can also collect a series of Goosebumps cards.
The park itself is filled with strange people, Horrors that leave you hints and tips not to mention the creatures that want you to fail. A couple of the rides from the story have made it into the game, the Doom Slide and the Coffin Ride, but Dreamworks still managed to add mini games and hidden areas.
If you are after a Horrorland game filled with rides and prizes to win, the third title released in the video game line in 2008, Goosebumps Horrorland, has the player competing in numerous rides and sideshow games around the entire park. It does a fantastic job of merging the Goosebumps atmosphere and the desire to actually play some of these spooky mini-games, instead of playing an interactive story.
Attack of the Mutant
Attack of the Mutant was the second Goosebumps PC game to be released by Dreamworks Interactive and follows a similar ‘problem-solving’ approach to gameplay. This time however, it uses a first-person style perspective similar to Doom or Wolfenstein 3D.
Where Escape from Horrorland opened up the entire park and made each area feel vastly different, Attack of the Mutant gives us a very quirky super-villain headquarters. It’s bright, flamboyant and doubles as a printing press for the Masked Mutant comic book series. This loosely ties the video game into the book as well as the Attack of the Mutant TV episode.
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Attack of the Mutant starts off as you get off the bus and follow a park path right to the front door of the super secret headquarters. During the open cinematics, we get to meet both the League of Good Guys and the villains. All of them. There’s a lot of characters rendered in typical 90’s CGI.
Despite all the super heroes we get introduced to, you’re the one who needs to save the day. Just your typical kid, armed with a masked mutant comic book. Your mission will take you deep in the headquarters and beyond, you’ll have to fight the Masked Mutants minions in the swamp, in the icy Tundra and the gardens surrounding the castle. Once you defeat the Masked Mutants minions, freed the League of Good Guy heroes trapped within the castle and recover your comic book, you can finally go toe-to-toe with the Masked Mutant himself.
The gameplay here for the Attack of the Mutant feels a lot less polished than Escape from Horrorland. The CGI cutscenes don’t feel smooth, all the acting is over the top and the whole premise, taking you from the mansion through portals and into different worlds, isn’t consistent. The game does however, pack a lot more gameplay than Escape from Horrorland. You’re in control of your character, there’s platforming sections, blasting sections and plenty of enemies to neutralise.
While it didn’t capture that fantastic Goosebumps atmosphere, Attack of the Mutant does give fans a chance to play a Goosebumps PC game based off one of their favourite books. The superhero themes are strong and the cut-scenes are a really good laugh. This is not a predictable game.
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Goosebumps video games are a series of action-adventure games based on Goosebumps book series.
Goosebumps: Escape from HorrorLand (1996)[edit]
Escape from HorrorLand was released in 1996 on the PC.[1] The game acts as a sequel to the Goosebumps book, One Day at HorrorLand. This game features well-known actors including Adam Wylie, Eric Lloyd, Isabella Rossellini and Jeff Goldblum. It was directed by Lawrence Guterman, who went on to direct Cats & Dogs (2001) and Son of the Mask (2005).
Goosebumps: Attack of the Mutant (1997)[edit]
Attack of the Mutant is a children's PC game based on the Goosebumps book Attack of the Mutant by R.L. Stine. It was developed and produced by DreamWorks Interactive and was released on September 25, 1997. It was one of the first games to use cel-shaded animation.[2][3]
The hero gets off a bus at the wrong stop, and finds himself at the headquarters of the Masked Mutant. Within, he must work with comic book superheroes the League of Good Guys to prevent the Masked Mutant and his evil henchmen from transforming the world into a giant comic book.
The cast of characters includes all of the comic book superheroes and supervillains featured in the original book – the Galloping Gazelle, the Masked Mutant and the Magnificent Molecule Man – but also many original characters, such as the mobster villain Pinky Flamingo. The hero, a non-gender specific (though in-game art suggests a male) child, is a silent protagonist. The Galloping Gazelle was voiced by Adam West (who played the same role in the TV episode of Attack of the Mutant) while the Masked Mutant was voiced by James Belushi.
Goosebumps: HorrorLand (2008)[edit]
Scholastic Book Company released a Goosebumps HorrorLand video game on October 28, 2008 in North America, and October 16, 2009 in Europe,[4][5][6] to tie into the series, on the Nintendo DS,[7]Wii,[8] and PlayStation 2[9] platforms. Developed by Gusto Games in Derby, the plot follows a young child and his/her friends trapped in HorrorLand, where they must make their way through challenging levels to escape the evil theme park. Reports indicate the game is similar to the original Goosebumps HorrorLand game Goosebumps Escape From HorrorLand, in which players had to beat the minigames of various levels to reveal who was behind events in the park and get back home. The official website reveals that HorrorLand in the game would have five main areas: Vampire Village (which serves as a hub connecting all the others), Mad Labs, Terror Tombs (an Egyptian-themed area), Fever Swamp, and the Carnival of Screams.[10] Several of these areas are references to classic Goosebumps books or previous depictions of HorrorLand.
The game starts off with a Horror leaving a ticket on the player's doorstep. The player tears it up but the ticket mysteriously gets put back together. Afterwards, Nate comes by and both Nate and the player set out to HorrorLand. At the beginning the player gets into the Carnival of Screams. A Horror gives the player 20 tokens for rides to start off. The player must reach the fright level to get into Vampire Village, one of the five attractions of HorrorLand. The player must get a high enough fright level to get on the Roller Ghoster and save a young girl named Gigi, who is trapped on it. After the player saves her, she joins the player to get the ticket pieces back and leave HorrorLand. Later, when the player gets to Fever Swamp, the player discovers that a show with the Great Gargantua is closed due to the monster escaping. When getting to Mad Labs, the player must collect 100 tokens to get a mask (a reference to The Haunted Mask) and once completed it mutates the player into a Horror. This allows them to go into the Horrors Only lounge to get a piece of the ticket. While in the lounge the player gets caught by Horrifico, the king of HorrorLand. While in Mad Labs, the sound of a woman saying 'If you see a girl in a blue dress holding a monster doll, do not attempt to approach her. She is extremely dangerous.' will play. This is a description of Gigi. The secret of HorrorLand is finally being revealed and the player must get 50 points for the fright restriction in order to get into Terror Tombs. Getting gold on the Pharaoh's Fairway would earn the last piece of the ticket. At the end of the game the Horrors grab the player. the player gets put on the final ride called Certain Death where the player must battle through to rescue Gigi and escape. Upon exiting, the player discovers that Gigi is the Great Gargantua, as she shapeshifts into the creature, and announces her plan to turn the entire world into her own HorrorLand. As she flies away, the screen fades out to 'The End'.
Goosebumps: The Game (2015)[edit]
Goosebumps: The Game is a point and click adventure game released in 2015, where the players control either a boy or a girl who they name, and they go on a spooky adventure battling the Goosebumps monsters that escape from their books.
The game is a prequel to the Goosebumps film and is developed by Wayforward Technologies.
Goosebumps: Night of Scares (2015)[edit]
Released in 2015, Night of Scares is a mobile game where players control a young boy named “Twist” who moved to a house that was haunted by creepy characters from the Goosebumps Series. Taking place after the film, R.L. Stine is trapped inside a typewriter thanks to Slappy. They are wished luck trying to get the pages from “ Night Of The Living Dummy”.
Goosebumps: Horror Town (2018)[edit]
Released in 2018 for mobile, Horror Town follows Slappy and various monsters as players build their own Goosebumps-inspired town.[11]
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Goosebumps: Dead of Night (2020)[edit]
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A port of Night of Scares titled Goosebumps Dead of Night was released in summer 2020 on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PC. Goosebumps Dead of Night will include additional content not seen in Night of Scares. The Nintendo Switch version will have gyroscopic controls, HD Rumble functionality, and touchscreen support.
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- ^'Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland Release Information for PC'. GameFAQs. Retrieved 2011-02-22.
- ^'Object is to save world'. Manly Daily. Sydney, Australia: News Limited. 11 February 1998. p. 8.
Goosebumps: Attack of the Mutant is the second CD-ROM game based on the best-selling series of books by children's author R.L. Stine. The object here is to save the world from the evil Masked Mutant and his henchmen. Players are transported to the Mutant's headquarters where they would uncover a plot to turn the world into a comic book (more cynical minds might say they're too late). Using a combination of skill, strategy and problem solving, players must navigate through the Mutant's domain, systematically defeating each foe. There's no point in trying to reason with them, fighting or running are their best choices. To help new players, there's a League of Good Guys with helpful advice. On each floor of the Masked Mutant's headquarters, the objects players collect would serve them well as they visit other locations.
- ^Heffley, Lynne (5 February 1998). 'It All Speaks to Kids'. Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, United States. p. 42.
It's not just fans of R.L. Stine's hugely popular ' Goosebumps ' Scholastic Inc. books and TV show who'll enjoy jumping into this well-made, color-ful 3-D action adventure. Players join forces with the 'League of Good Guys' to stop the Masked Mutant from destroying the world as we know it: The purple villain wants to turn it into a comic book. As the countdown to destruction continues, you'll explore the bad guy's multilevel headquarters, navigating through corridors filled with elevators, doors and secret passageways that lead to nifty rooms and mazes. Sound effects and spooky music are nicely done, and the perils aren't overly intense; parents don't have to worry that kids will be exposed to blood-and-guts hyper-violence.
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External links[edit]
- Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland (the game) on Internet Movie Database
- Official website at Scholastic Press