I Remade the Oldest Horror Game

Horror games like Poppy Playtime, Choo-Choo Charles, and Garten of Banban are known for their ability to capture players in their immersive worlds, but it wasn’t always that way. Haunted House, the world’s first horror game for the Atari 2600... doesn’t exactly hold up by modern horror game standards... so today, I’m going to remake it with modern technology!
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[@PolyMarsLIVE]

subscribe or a pixelated green bat will eat you

[@AxelAxelFFM]

W

[@sylverize]

Nuh uh

[@theinkblobcrown1889]

Ok

[@Thesecretfriends985]

😮

[@rodgames1237]

W

[@CrappelSauceYT]

This isn't the first time this game has been remade, lol. It was remade for the 50th anniversary of Atari.

[@YourToast]

HAHA!!

[@manymore6588]

That's 2031

[@dwightdeisenhower53]

@@manymore6588 what is your math

[@Killerking0310]

@@dwightdeisenhower53I think he mistook the games release date for the ataris and added 50 on that.

[@Drank-drank]

he meant HORROR games not games in general

[@joshualedbetter879]

While I agree that "Haunted House" didn't exactly age well, the sequel "Return to Haunted House" kind of does. It plays less like the original and more like "Adventure", another Atari game, but with darker colors. Some of the limitations of the Atari actually make the game more terrifying, such as the minimalistic graphics and the sprite flickering recreates the horror trope of lights turning on and off. So, while it may not be as good as some modern horror titles, I would recommend "Return to Haunted House" just to try.

[@legthieff]

the eyes look like the minecraft frogspawn texture. look at the original game’s player texture, then minecraft frogspawn.

[@joshualedbetter879]

@@legthieff I hate that you're right

[@SubzeroGtagVr]

This man wrote his school essay 💀

[@VaderTheWhite]

As someone who adores Adventure, I wanna play it

[@Wateisgood]

7:03

[@Catscratch-iy2gf]

Love how he complained about the bad sound effects for the original and then didn't even bother to add a sound for the jumpscare in the "remake"

[@DR4XTheGame]

Yeah, this highlights something I quite dislike about all these "i remade blah in blah" videos, you created a small part of the game, you missed most of the mechnaics and your monster variety was very low. If it were a real actual remake you would have added all the monsters and all the mechanics (that work in a 3d environment)

[@fallenking9807]

​@@DR4XTheGamei think your english broke mid sentence 🗿

[@DR4XTheGame]

@@fallenking9807 typos lol. The typos are now fixed.

[@jayn2867]

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[@theloafs2622]

​@@DR4XTheGamemechniacs

[@masterofbloopers]

"You escaped the mansion with 0lives." It wasn't an urn after all. It was a jar of olives.

[@Dargonhuman]

"I've got a jar of olives, I've got a jar of olives, I've got a jar of olives!" -Captain Jack Sparrow, probably.

[@Other_OneOfTheWitches]

The fact that you remade the full game even with 10+ rooms is so fantastic

[@trolldecai6874]

hi liam hfjone

[@FijianYoutuber]

Liam plecak real??

[@waybackinthe1980s]

are you and bryce still dating

[@entesarsalmanaarabi]

Glitch scp

[@DR4XTheGame]

He didnt though, as the guy says at the end, he removed thr atcual mechanics, didnt have the full variety of monsters, the keys or the traps etc.

[@OldVHSTapefrom-wo7qh]

Now to keep on theme, you should try remaking the horror game "3D Monster Maze" for the Sinclair ZX81 that also came out in that same year. It should be even easier to do. Only one creature hunts you down (a big T-Rex) and the level is one big maze that you have to find the exit for. So its a player, inside a maze, with a dinosaur chasing you.

[@fehimfetai6577]

Yes 👍👍👍

[@simplytoast1086]

you actually just have to wait long enough

[@EnderArlo]

Mah boy Rex wants to be remade next

[@lotus_flower2000]

That was my dads favourite as a teen. It came out around haunted house. So it could be the actual first horror game but release dates for haunted house differ.

[@OldVHSTapefrom-wo7qh]

@@lotus_flower2000 In some sources I found it does say that Monster Maze is the first computer horror game, so it might be the case, yes. Official sources only state the years of release, and both Haunted House and Monster Maze have the same year.

[@soleclipse8187]

Hey polymars, so recently I watched a tiktok that had something called "8d" audio and it was a person knocking on a door. Basically what this "8d" audio does is it makes it sound like somebody is in the room with it and it is incredibly realistic. There is probably an audio file of it out there somewhere and it is legitimately the scariest jump scare ever. You should use it in a horror game.

[@puggington1234]

Am I the only one who saw "You escaped with Olives" instead of "You escaped with 0 lives"?

[@Forestfox36]

I saw that too

[@Fascinationgamez]

Bro me too

[@JeromeMillion]

Same here 🤣 ! Spaces are indeed important 🤣 !

[@-eggyweggyandfriends-]

same

[@WhatAboutDustbunny]

Nope

[@TRE7866]

Finally someone talks about the scariest horror game that ever existed “Haunted House”

[@databrawlfan]

finally the first horror game being recognized 🦅🦅🦅🦅

[@mili956Leo]

2020 the canny Incident

[@entesarsalmanaarabi]

Don't Don't like that 😒

[@lotus_flower2000]

What about Monster Maze (1981)?

[@JeromeMillion]

Didn't he say in the first minutes that the sound was horrible and he was going to start with remaking it and then... Didn't add any sound at all in the game 🤣?

[@DamarisPadilla-ki6bc]

Bro forgot about the sound effects

[@RiddickClark]

The sound he should have used chicken wing chicken wing

[@RiddickClark]

For the death sound

[@BrohamLincolnpanta-ct4ld]

I can't ignore the image of some teenager from 1981 screaming their head off in their room as a little green bat comes towards them

[@Mygrandmadidabackflip]

Lol

[@alex_is_my_cat]

@@Mygrandmadidabackflipnpc, also im worried for your grandma

[@Mygrandmadidabackflip]

@@alex_is_my_cat she's fine my mom told me she is broke her neck and she said it's a good part about growing up She ate the cocainee bag btw

[@Mygrandmadidabackflip]

AAAAAAAAAAA LOBOTAMY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA DOCTOR AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA LOBOTMY AAAAAAAA HELP NEEDLE BRAIN LOBOTAMY FIRE IN THE HOLE FIRE IN THE HOLE FIRE IN THE DUDUBSQBDJIFREOBUGvuoerrv9uhver9buvefouvbwrbvc9ur2vrciewbufewijbciubcuicbu2rofube2odbui2rd

[@ForrestGreene-l1t]

3:08 -body once told me the world is gonna roll me

[@AUDACITY245]

😭😭😭

[@TheChosenOrange]

wtff😭😭

[@b3u-nEd]

I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed

[@whitty9877]

I think you play as a pair of eyeballs because the house is so dark you can't see their body or head.

[@RocketPoweredBunnies]

Hey for this game u should add sounds to the jumpscare and a screen after like "Better luck next time!" next make it say you escaped with 0 lives instead of 0lives. and finally lower the jumpscare camera . But great game!

[@WeyovLest]

😋olives

[@mozzeralleh]

you escaped with 🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸

[@essakim44]

12:14 🫒

[@sigmaestmanevr]

You escaped with 0 lives ❌️ You escaped with 🫒 ✅️

[@watermeloncatbrodda]

No they should just say you escaped with Olives and then add and olive emoji or if removed (if they update it ever) it should be an easter egg hidden somewhere

[@kuukanz]

kinda crazy how 90% of the things in this video were made from chat gpt or models from other people 😅

[@SissypheanCatboy]

Listen, I'm not trying to be a "hater" here , but its kinda funny how this remake ends up being objectively worse than the original. There's only one slow moving enemy, there's no additional mechanics like the scepter or the locked doors, and its aesthetically not great either. Its been sucked dry of any charm and turned into a slender clone.

[@PonderousEclectica4383]

honestly, this is the whole feeling i had about this video.

[@SissypheanCatboy]

@@PonderousEclectica4383 Yeah I came into it interested just because of the thumbnail, thinking he was going to be doing interesting reinterpretations of the original game, and then in reality it was just...a random model on the marketplace. That plus not even bothering to write chase code definitely gives the vibe he just didn't care.

[@Dargonhuman]

@@SissypheanCatboy Agreed. The longer the video went on, the more it became obvious that this wasn't some massive passion project or even practicing using Unity, it was just "content for the sake of content".

[@dont_mind_myname]

I agree

[@karthiksubramanian7720]

I agree with you

[@kyrauniversal]

Impressive. Although, you missed the keys, hidden doors, ghosts. You could've taken it further, all I'm saying.

[@holydoor]

indeed

[@lotus_flower2000]

this seems like a joke video. I mean he has "Horror games like Poppy Playtime, Choo-Choo Charles, and Garten of Banban" in the description.

[@wobblyuploadz7419]

I like that there's a conversation in the stream chat about how a guy fell asleep on his keyboard and was writing sentences.

[@dungquoc8552]

TBH, this just goes to show that old things should never be remade, especially with nothing but stolen assets.

[@ciayrrrr]

fact: the actual oldest horror game is 3d monster maze so you should make a video about remaking it, and called the video i remade the ACTUAL oldest horror game

[@serious643]

the fact he references garten of banban as a crowning achievement of horror games as a genre really shows me how little this guy knows

[@noyz-anything]

he's being silly about it actually

[@flarefrog]

it's a joke...

[@serious643]

@@noyz-anything doesn't at all seem that way, it's just another coding zoomertuber hopping onto the latest trends

[@LostGameDev102]

@@serious643 you are a fool

[@Catscratch-iy2gf]

Yeah Garten of Banban isn't bad but it's definitely not anything to draw inspiration from when making a horror game...stick with games that are made with purpose, like Resident Evil or Poppy Playtime

[@shakhzunnurainarmanporom4930]

3:49 "Polymars go touch grass" IS WILD

[@denisekyles4299]

"garten of banban, however, is NOT a horror game. *curls finger around trigger* "

[@Cyberking_]

The only scary thing is your main channel upload schedule

[@quandale-gayming]

I honestly forgot about that

[@Nikolapoleon]

I think the more interesting experiment would be to attempt to make the best, scariest possible horror game for the Atari 2600.

[@sonicdrew]

No way bro said Garden of band Ban Gets you trapped in their immersive world

[@Normal_-.fish13]

1:09 that random guy getting ignored when saying hi poly

[@JoaomogusGD]

jaxongaming12344

[@christophercampbell6884]

Yeah... It's almost as if it's impossible to be entertaining while responding to comments simultaneously :/

[@Vortex_Monke]

Honestly the eye balls in the original game is more scarier than the monsters😂😂

[@Gengar_Lovediscen]

4:33 Monday left me broken

[@CollisionPlayz]

how did u notice that lol

[@Gengar_Lovediscen]

@@CollisionPlayz i focus on chat LoL

[@CollisionPlayz]

@@Gengar_Lovediscen :P

[@Rav410]

The bat really pressed e to be reincarnated💀

[@DeathTheDestructorOfWorlds]

3:49 : "polymars go touch grass , that might be useful"

[@1.koi_fish]

i was genuinely tweaking when he didn't add the other monsters from the og game but overall he did a good job

[@moonradio6962]

PolyMars does your game even have SOUND DESIGN!?

[@iiTzGrizzly]

12:13 “You escaped the mansion with Olives” 😭

[@Tcagod]

12:14 i thought it said you escaped with olives but there was no space🤣

[@Kawamura2]

I mean, when I was a little child the Atari version was kind of scary, but I think that's just because the sound was so damned loud. I was like 5 or 6 when it came out. Why yes, I am old!

[@GamerX-2000]

12:15 “You escaped the mansion with 0lives.” 🫒

[@vr_lottle1]

since when tf was there an olive emoji 🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒

[@GamerX-2000]

@@vr_lottle1 no clue. It’s dumb but fitting for this.

[@GamerX-2000]

@@vr_lottle1 apparently it was first added to Unicode in 2020

[@Emoflapper]

🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒

[@Dumbkyonei]

🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒 since when the fuck

[@JeromeMillion]

I really liked your content when I discovered you in one of the videos from Vimlark. Your style and the games you were making were really nice I thought. But to be honest recently your content is kinda becoming the same thing over and over again, especially with the horror genre. How many times are you going to remake a Slenderman-like. Horror is not that shallow and it's not alway about jumpscares. I'm glad there is an audience for that and you find success. I'm sure that tons of people like the "forced cringe" and the Dani-but-not-really style but in my opinion - and it's only my opinion, not a mean critic or an attack on you or the fanbase - I'm really sure that you can make better games than that, that you can do different things and not just become the guy who just does crappy games but in a kinda goofy way. That said, I will always be hoping to see you in collaborations with guys like Vimlark, Blackthorn and others. You can defnitely create cool stuff, of that I'm sure 💪!

[@browntint]

ya i feel you

[@MageTom]

agree

[@Ykwia156]

Yap

[@zoiavasilev2239]

Challenge:make a horror game in 50 hours ⌚️💻👾👻

[@nodi1732]

did you know that the "(" creature is actually a bat?

[@Lowquailtyimage]

Yeah probably but bats aren’t scary anymore and I like the creature he made better

[@jlewwis1995]

​@@Lowquailtyimagelol he didn't make it, he literally just bought it off the asset store, this "remake" is just a lazy asset flip lol, im noticing that that's a trend with all the so called "remake" videos on this channel...

[@SpoopyKrown]

12:13 At first I thought the text said "You escaped the mansion with Olives." But it turns out there are no Olives in the vase. It's just that there's no space between the number and the lives.

[@LinaLittle-p4q]

Omg every body wake up and go back to sleep poly mars has posted

[@SevIbuyamaru]

This remake was so bad. Fynn's response was honest. You hitting masochist desk was honest, but funny. Video was fun to watch, NGL.

[@elliottdm1019]

game: you escaped the mansion with olives me: thanks, I need a snack after all that running

[@Gavigibrocadst808]

Interesting…as an average Atari fan this is one of the popular games despite it feeling like Zelda & me not understanding a single thing & can you blame them…after all this was the first horror game witch itself was made on the first ever home console in history & also had a remake on the Atari 50 Anniversary game witch is also used to find hidden other old Atari game witch was pretty understandable & even has a jumpscare that…isn’t that scary later on…even if it…scared me but WE still rate it a 10/10 for bring a very old game back. -Mr. G =]

[@invisablemaster]

The original still does infact hold up if you love pixel games and 2D games instead of 3D that could crash. And yes I understand that the game is not scary as of today but imagine how scared they where when this game first released (2D One.).

[@Iwatch2019cartoonsobsessively]

I used to play this so much on a compilation of Atari games. I could beat it every time incredibly quickly because my dad taught me how to. I always look back on it, thanks for reminding me of this gem.

[@DigitizedGalaxyAlt]

You're missing the spider and ghost and the light mechanics but pretty cool

[@BronyNumber4096]

And I seem to recall a scepter or necklace or something that's supposed to make you invisible to the enemies.

[@DigitizedGalaxyAlt]

@@BronyNumber4096 yeah, the little wand thing.

[@fantasticsquid2065]

One of my favourite things about this game is the walking sound. When I'm playing I just hear, "tap tap tap tap." It's kind of funny.

[@Randomstuff-ps2en]

15:10 the way how he just slammed his table

[@theomegameep6570]

You’re trying to tell me (in the description) that Garten of Ban Ban is known for its immersive world?! That’s new info to me.

[@Brunoreacts-te1cf]

Fr

[@h0metape]

You've got to give it credit, though. It probably scared a lot of people when it first came out, even if it seems mediocre today.

[@Amazingnightm4r]

You Play as a Human, but the room is incredibly dark.

[@AndyTheFancy]

Monster Maze (December 1981) was the first horror game and it's basically the current state of the backrooms.

[@Robot-Nerdie]

12:13 ''You escaped the mansion with 0lives.'' Wow olives, Cool.

[@Jalene1818]

2:10 GASTER’S THEME??!??!!??!!?!!

[@SAJWrongtree]

12:14 “you escaped the mansion with olives” 🫒

[@SLvoid9]

when i saw the thumbnail i tought it was going to be a remake the one of the first FPS games wich had a sort of dinosaur-monster called rex because the pixel sprite looked like his mouth and when i saw the 3D remake a some sort of bat i just tought "how the hell is this supposed to be a dinosaur" weird shit, apart from that really good video !

[@taiwanesegamer6423]

hah thats funny where did you learn that from? Evolution of horror games 1982-2019 by Cussan? heh

[@SLvoid9]

@@taiwanesegamer6423 i think, i don't really remember but it really was a funny game

[@taiwanesegamer6423]

@@SLvoid9 Maybe go watch the video to confirm your thoughts

[@SLvoid9]

@@taiwanesegamer6423 yeah i'll do that

[@T-P-M_405]

The green thing looks like a spore creation

[@sergiofortuna5370]

I agree Whit the horror reviewer,change my mind.

[@Wesker113A]

That ending tho 😂😂😂😂😂 Never laughed so hard. Such a harsh critic. 🤷‍♂️🙌😂 I think you did wonderful dude! I'd definitely play it. I never even played the original.

[@dc7710-g6w]

You escaped the mansion with olives.

[@patoProductions1_patosegura]

night at murder drones: 1, Map 1 to 6 2, N V J Uzi ai 3, Found All 10 key's 4, 6 exit's 5, gun 6, menu main 7, game over/you win 8, press esc for paush the game

[@Bob_is_back_for_death]

“You have escaped the mansion with olives” got me cracked up💀

[@JaceVaofficial]

thank youuu I loved the atari game as a kid, happy to finally see a polished version

[@sokabl64]

yeah garten of banban totally captured me in its world

[@EveUkr]

“You escaped with 🫒”

[@dont_mind_myname]

To be honest, I agree with Fynn's opinion

[@EinXTRAZ]

I love the LBP sounds ❤

[@EggsBenedict-te4nj]

I honestly love remakes of old games. But I do wish that you'd have taken a bit of creative liberty with it rather than just giving it a fancy look. Like make the floors look different each time with furniture and things. But I do understand why you didn't go this route.

[@IrfuTuber]

Poly never fails to make our day Mars

[@RivverTheGreatRiv]

Top tier comment

[@goho7201]

Lmao how he pit the monster in the thumbnail but blurred it at the first of the vid

[@gaetanomusella6868]

3:10 the greatest mascot horror game? more like the laziest mascot meme game. >:(

[@Iarahatx]

I bet u can’t even make a game and sissy schoolgrounds was made for a one hour challenge kiddo

[@itsmeglisten]

Bros dictionary didn’t have “sarcasm”

[@Random_Maths_Magician]

Get out of here yapper

[@gaetanomusella6868]

@@Random_Maths_Magician NO U

[@Moyandothers]

Suddenly came lol

[@Minutegamingmaster-xw2gx]

Dude when it says you escaped with 0 lovelies it looks like it says you escaped with olivies

[@TantoFaz13]

This is an interesting idea, but the massive disrespect that this guy has for the source material is very off putting. Maybe try to make a game with technology from the 70's for a very limited hardware, without using chatgpt and see what you can come up with. For the time, and even now, this is a very decent game.

[@Wyatt_VR_GT]

5:38 you rlly sure bout him not using chat gpt??

[@Squeteza_man_is_cool2]

I think the jump scare for the green bat should’ve been it turned its head and then bites your head off

[@DumbBunny5328]

This isn’t the first horror game. The first was 3D monster maze for the ZX81 computer which came out a year earlier.

[@trouslinabone]

I was looking for this comment. It was bugging me so much. I clicked on this video hoping for a remake of that, got very sad when it wasn't.

[@lotus_flower2000]

@trouslinabone to be honest. It seems like the exact release date for haunted house isnt well documented. We have 3D monster maze as december 1981, but haunted house is said to be 1981 or 1982 dependibg on the source

[@infamousone15]

Haunted House is not the oldest horror game. Older by _three months,_ 3D Monster Maze is the oldest horror game. It was released in December 1981 for the Sinclair ZX81. Haunted House was released in _Feburary 1982._

[@Ezzyplanet]

150 likes on polymars let’s go.

[@wolfy6932]

GO GO Poly Mars!!!

[@omerkayradelikara9513]

12.15 "you escaped the mansion with olives" lol

[@puppymono999]

"you escaped the mansion with 0 lives" more like 'you escape the mansion with olives"

[@coconutbaconcat]

13:28 bro trying to roast a old game

[@GDPoptart]

AAAAAH SO SCARYYYYYY

[@SlyChef]

lets be URNest this was really cool 7:58

[@HITI_DEV]

why you dont try to make a unreal game (or you cant do that)

[@xandoog]

Dani reference

[@AryaPlus]

2:40 Remember, never forget to put the decimals in the right place "It costs $2.99! 😃" Versus "It costs $299 💀"

[@3Dmakerindian]

Yo Bro Do I Have Your Permission To Replicate Sussy SchoolGrounds But Realistic?

[@Beans997-From-Deviantart]

Bro finaly made good a video Edit : (i take that back)

[@sophiaward484]

12:13 AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT IT SAID ESCAPED WITH OLIVES!?

[@fishiswaht]

i dunno

[@hakuizunami6421]

Man i remember when you were a very small channel i am happy to see you grow

[@Soup-Boot]

You use a lot of ChatGPT and premade assets in these videos... sorry to say but that's kinda lame.

[@SNSD4EVER]

I love how a game made in 1981 is 16 bits while all the other games in like the 1990 are 8 bit

[@cardboard46]

stopping kids from saying first

[@Westonizchill]

Second 😏

[@Idrkwhattoputasmyhandle]

First

[@Aries-kw6of]

@@Idrkwhattoputasmyhandleshut up

[@Idrkwhattoputasmyhandle]

@@Aries-kw6of first

[@Aries-kw6of]

@@Idrkwhattoputasmyhandle 👾👾

[@SolumTV]

i watched this video yesterday then went to bed and had a dream i was stuck in that house being chased by that bat. thanks alot for that.

[@YoBoyChat]

I am a comment.

[@laurencoombs9412]

What?

[@Philippines_k9n]

@YoBoyChat what do you mean

[@AnthonyRamirez-g9j]

No your not

[@Art_hur_Art]

okay guys were going to remake this shitty old game *downloads free models, takes code from other game, writes code with chat gpt*

[@AxelAxelFFM]

wowee

[@user-xl9rr4nt4z]

firsta commento

[@dajku4526]

You escaped the run with Olives... WORTH IT!