Chiller

Exidy’s run of ’80s light-gun games starting with the letter ‘C’1 have been long forgotten outside of Chiller, which only has any collective memory around it thanks to its complete tastelessness. Even if one were to get past the initial two torture-chamber levels, the final one lets the player shoot the clothes off of a woman half-buried in a graveyard, revealing her breasts before dismembering her piece-by-piece. It’s not as nauseating as that description implies thanks to its unshaded, jagged art style, and even in the context of the game the imagery is jarring: many of the other targets are generic ghouls and boogeymen, all completely gore-free. Even if one’s initial reaction is that of revulsion, those who push through will quickly see the shock value evaporate once they finish the fourth level and find that the game endlessly loops back to the first, with no change in the targets or visuals. In the short span of a single loop, the developers did indeed go out of their way to…