History VideoGame / Uninvited

** In the NES version, picking up the ruby slowly kills you, but the games doesn't imply that it is was that item that's doing this to you. In the other versions you are put under a time limit to finish the game, leaving almost no room to explore.

* ArtifactOfDeath: [[spoiler:The ruby.]]

* {{Bowdlerise}}: As was then commonplace, Nintendo had a few things watered down for the NES conversion: crosses, pentagrams, and the number 666 were omitted, and a ghost that on other platforms carried its head in one hand wore an intact head on its shoulders. (A preview screenshot in ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' showed the original ghost.)
* {{Butterface}}: [[spoiler:The Scarlett O'Hara lookalike.]]

* TheDayTheMusicLied: The pleasant tune while meeting the Scarlett O'Hara lookalike.

* FaceRevealingTurn: [[spoiler:Scarlett O'Hara.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Unlike ''Shadowgate'', this game likes SHOWING you just what it is that's biting and gnawing and ripping your flesh off. You don't see the damage it does to the player, but the descriptions make it sound gruesome.

* GiantSpider: Amusingly enough (and in perhaps the only example in the entire [=MacVenture=] series), the game warns you multiple times that leaping into the den of the resident Giant Spider will probably be a bad idea. Ignoring the warnings [[spoiler:leads to your being eaten, prefaced by the humorously patronizing message "Well, what do you know; it's a giant spider."]]
** Also, if you unlock the secret passageway in the laboratory and head north, [[spoiler:you encounter the same giant spider in the den that can only be stopped by Stillini.]]

** What the hell keeps killing you for no apparent reason. [[spoiler:(It's the ruby.)]] This issue only comes up in the NES version. In the other versions it's just a facet of gameplay to add urgency to your search.
** At the very end, when the door slams behind you, how to reach your sibling in [[spoiler:the room above the bathroom. (Flood the bathtub, and keep "using" the light fixture until it comes free.)]]

* RapidAging: [[spoiler:Eating a piece of fruit in the greenhouse will suddenly cause you to age a year for every second. Game over!]]

* SchmuckBait: Two of them. [[spoiler:The prison cell at the top of the ladder, and the giant spider in the tunnel. A lesser known one is that you can crawl inside the coffin in the maze (often accidentally by going east) and die.]]
* SealedEvilInACan: Dracan is, fortunately, buried within several tons of ice. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, you need to get him out of there in order to actually kill him.]]

** When you open one of the doors on the first floor hallway, you encounter a SouthernBelle that is dressed like Scarlett O'Hara from ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. [[spoiler:And when you pour the No Ghost onto the belle, she melts away and a message says, "You now feel like [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Dorothy]] [[AndYourLittleDogToo (and her little dog, too)]]" (in any version excluding the NES version).]]

* VerbThis: [[spoiler:In the NES version:]]

** The description of the creature refers to it as "cute", especially amidst a lot of horrible, vicious creatures, so maybe that's what's being put into question. Or, you know, the fact that this one creature [[EverythingTryingToKillYou isn't actively trying to harm you]].

* [[AnimalsHateHim Animals Hate You]]: At the center of TheMaze, unlocking a cage releases a hawk, a snake, and a cat. You're then given a choice as to what to do with them. Three out of four of your options lead to getting the crap mauled out of you.
** Also the guard dogs outside the chapel and the giant spider under the chapel.

* HollywoodAcid: The servant ghost kills you by engulfing you into his "misty form", which covers you in a thick, sticky goo that turns out to be acid that not only hurts like hell, but turns you into a "lifeless lump of flesh".

[[caption-width-right:256:[[SchmuckBait Oh, hello, lady.]] [[TooDumbToLive Mind if you tell me what's with this house]] [[HellIsThatNoise --]] '''[[NightmareFuel AAAAAAAAAA]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUXaYxWynk8 HHHH!!!]]''']]

** The description of the creature refers to it as "cute", especially amidst a lot of horrible, vicious creatures, so maybe that's what's being put into question. Or, oyu know, the fact that this one creature [[EverythingTryingToKillYou isn't actively trying to harm you]].

* ArbitrarySkepticism: The first time you encounter the small key-bearing creature the game says you have to "question the reliability of your eyes." Even though it's impossible to run into the little guy without at least seeing a woman melt away to nothing before your eyes after pouring a ghost-banishing liquid on her.

* ChekhovsGun: Subverted. There are ''three'' rifles hanging on the wall, but there's no key to open the gun rack. They'd probably do you little good anyway, though.

** Likewise the demon that's the true final boss. The diaries all make Dracan out as the primary malefactor, and the revelation that there's another greater evil at work in the house kind of comes out of nowhere.

A 1986 AdventureGame by Creator/ICOMSimulations for AppleMacintosh, later ported to the UsefulNotes/{{NES}} among other systems. Known for its NightmareFuel involving TheManyDeathsOfYou.

A 1986 AdventureGame by Creator/ICOMSimulations for AppleMacintosh, later ported to the {{NES}} among other systems. Known for its NightmareFuel involving TheManyDeathsOfYou.

* DistressedDude / DamselInDistress: Your main reason for braving the hellhouse is to locate your sibling.

* GhostButler / PointOfNoReturn: The front door, of course, refuses to let you out once you're inside. So does another door, when you trigger the endgame. [[spoiler:There's still another self-sealing door upstairs, that proves a little more fatal if you're silly enough to use it.]]

* TheManyDeathsOfYou

* NintendoHard

* OhCrap
* OldDarkHouse

* VerbedTitle

* SouthernBelle: [[spoiler:As actually the first obstacle you encounter, looking like Scarlet O'hara, and will brutally kill you with quite the gory description if you are not aware how to get past her.]] Ha... hahahaha...

* SouthernBelle: Ha... hahahaha...

** What the hell keeps killing you for no apparent reason. [[spoiler:(It's the ruby.)]] This issue only comes up in the NES version.

* ChekhovsGun: Subverted. There are ''three'' rifles hanging on the wall, but there's no key to open the gun rack.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The red tomato-monster thing that [[spoiler: you need to uncage the hawk for]]. Even the narrative text gives up trying to make sense of the event.

** One to ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' when you meet the guard dogs: "Why did it have to be dogs?"
** "Whoa!! This is like a scene from a [[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 'Living Dead']] film."

* ShoutOut: You can find the graves of both ''VideoGame/DejaVu'' protagonist Ace Harding and ''VideoGame/{{Shadowgate}}'' BigBad Talimar in the maze. The phonograph also plays a (horribly off-key) tune from ''Shadowgate''.

** "Whoa!! This is like a scene from a [[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead 'Living Dead']] film."

* AwesomeButImpractical: There's a large, wicked looking battleaxe that you can pick up very early on. Too bad the only thing it's good for is killing YOURSELF (Justified somewhat, as the house is full of ghosts). [[spoiler:You'll later use it to break open a particularly stubborn cookie jar. And the axe breaks in the process.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Unlike ''Shadowgate'', this game likes SHOWING you just what it is that's biting and gnawing and ripping your flesh off. However, you don't see the damage it does to the player, but the descriptions make it sound gruesome.

** How to deal with the ghost servant upstairs. [[spoiler:(You need to spray the railing with Spider Cider, take the anesthetized spider with you, and scare off the ghost by dropping it in front of him.)]]