For my next adventure in the horror section of the Internet Archive, I played Baal (1989, Psygnosis Limited).
In Baal, you are a leader of something called The Time Warriors. A demon named Baal has stolen a super weapon and it is up to you to infiltrate Baal’s underground lair, kill Baal’s warriors, get the weapon, and destroy Baal. It sounds simple but this game is biased against people like me who aren’t any good at games like this.
The game starts with you materializing in Baal’s lair. I think the blue contraption is a transporter.
Yes, there are ladders and multiple levels. The controls are simple. Use the arrow keys to move. Press the space bar to fire our weapon. If you want jump, press the space bar and an arrow key at the same time.
That serpent is one of Baal’s minions. You can destroy the serpent by shooting it several times but don’t make my mistake and get too close. Touching the serpent kills you.
After it kills you, the serpent flies away. That was cool.
After getting killed by the serpent, I was given a second chance. This time, instead of running forward, I ran up the ladder. I discovered that, much like the serpents, you do not want to touch that blue force field. I also discovered what happens when you fall off a level.
Eventually, I figured out how to jump and I also managed to kill the serpent before it killed me. This is what I discovered at the other end of the cave.
Another force field! I decided to test my theory that running into the force field would cause me to die.
It did.
That was it for me. Baal can have the super weapon. Hopefully, Baal’s next opponent will be better at games like this than I am.
In 1964, the state of Wyoming executed Charles Forsythe (Viggo Mortensen) for killing another inmate at Creedmore State Prison. Forsythe was innocent of the crime but the only other two people who knew, a prisoner named Cresus (Lincoln Kilpatrick) and a guard named Eaton Sharpe (Lane Smith), kept silent. Twenty-three years later, Cresus is still an inmate and Sharpe has been named the new warden of Creedmore. When a group of prisoner open up the old execution chamber, Forsythe’s electrified spirit escapes into the prison and starts to kill the prisoners and the guards, one-by-one. A convict named Burke (also played by Mortensen) understands what is going on but can he get anyone to believe him?
For the crime of having murdered over a 100 people, “Meat Cleaver Max” Jenke (Brion James) is sentenced to death and sent to the electric chair. Even though everyone thinks that Max was electrocuted, his electricity-fueled spirit is still alive and pissed off. If this sounds familiar, that is because it is the exact same premise that was used in 
A year and a half ago, serial killer Ivan Mosser (Lyle Alzado) was sent to the electric chair for murdering 23 people. On the night that he was electrocuted, the worst prison riot in American history broke out. The prison was closed and abandoned. A year and a half later, a film crew has entered the prison to make a women in prison film. Robert Edwards (Anthony Perkins) is the sleazy director. David Harris (Clayton Rohner) is the screenwriter who fights to maintain the integrity of his script and who is an expert on the prison’s history. Susan Malone (Deborah Foreman) is a stuntwoman and David’s girlfriend. And Ivan is the murderer who is still half-alive and full of electricity.
Lou Cherney (Robert Forster) was a top police detective until a perp with a shotgun shattered his leg. Now, Lou’s a private investigator with a limp, a girlfriend (Caren Kaye), and a learning disabled son named Joey (Philip Glasser). When Lou is hired to track down a missing girl, he discovers that she is now the lover of Nicole St. James (Lydie Denier), the head of a modeling agency. Nicole seduces Lou within minutes of meeting him but, when Lou attempts to return the missing girl to her family, Nicole reveals that she is actually an ancient demon and she possesses Joey. Soon, Joey is carrying an ice pick and throwing people out of windows.
Howard Hansen (Ted Prior) is a best-selling horror writer who is suffering from writer’s block. With his agent, Murray (Frank Sivero), pressuring him to get something written, Howard decides to seek inspiration in Chinatown. When he steps into a curio shop and sees a grotesque, one-eyed blob floating in a jar of formaldehyde, Howard buys it. He hopes that the blob will give him an idea for a great book but instead, it just causes him to have nightmares and violent sex with his wife, Peggy (Sandahl Bergman).
Through the Shattered Lens 