Tag Archives: Snatcher

In 1992, Sega asked players to bolt the future onto the machine they already owned. The future arrived with a disc tray, a second power brick, a $299 price tag, and a question the company could never quite answer: what should a CD game actually be? Picture a living room at the end of 1992. The Genesis is already there, its controller cable stretched across the carpet. Sonic has made Sega feel… Read more

Hideo Kojima is known for pushing the boundaries of video games, but during the development of Snatcher he almost took things into a whole new dimension — smell. Kojima wanted the game’s floppy disks coated in a special chemical that, when heated by the computer, would release the scent of blood. His vision? To fill the room with the “stench of a murder scene” during key moments in the game. Imagine playing… Read more