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Oct
There’s no getting around the fact that the NES era isn’t generally considered to be the best time for horror games. While the popular narrative that horror gaming didn’t properly begin until Resident Evil was released in 1996 obviously isn’t accurate, it’s safe to say that the ’80s and early ’90s were a strange time for the genre. In a way, though, that makes it that much more interesting to look back at the NES era of horror games and try to find the gems. Because there are so few stone-cold classics from that time, you’ve really got to dig…