Dark Seed (video Game)

Dark Seed (video game)

DOS
20 MHz 386
640 KB RAM
500 KB Hard disk space
MS-DOS 3.x

Dark Seed is a psychological horror point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Cyberdreams in 1992. It exhibits a normal world and a dark world counterpart, which is based on the artwork by H. R. Giger. It was one of the first point-and-click adventure games to use high-resolution (640 x 400 pixels) graphics, to Giger's demand. A sequel, Dark Seed II, was released in 1995. The original game was released for Amiga, Amiga CD32, DOS, Macintosh, Sega Saturn and PlayStation. The PlayStation and Saturn versions were released only in Japan; however, the Saturn version is not dubbed in Japanese, only subtitled, making the game's story still accessible to English speakers. The Saturn version is compatible with the Sega Saturn Mouse. There was also a version developed for the Sega Mega-CD and even promoted for American release, but publisher Vic Tokai never released it. An unlicensed version was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in Chinese, however a English translated ROM is currently being worked on by a small nonprofit team. The main character, Mike Dawson, is named after the game's designer and producer. He also lent his appearance to the character's sprite.