House of the Dead Overload, coming on VHS?

Ragarnok

@PsycheE: They're going to be saying that about CDs sometime next week or so.

wanion

Chi-chi-chia pet.

Isn't it insane, that even this generation of youngen's are considering VHS as the way of the 8 track?.

PsycheE

Holy shit, that press kit is HOTNESS!!!!!!! Do want.

dead_red_eyes

VHS tapes..

suffer like Geeee did?

Reetesh

You got your video game in my rental store!

DukeOfPwn

Looks like a Genesis case. Reminds me of the Zombies ate my Neighbors bow, actually.

TheCleaningGuy

VHS cases. I remember those.

Sofox

It's strange that they went this route considering how badly Grindhouse flopped. Oh well, I guess people like me will be into it, but there aren't a whole lot of people like me!

Now if only they would make Shenmue 3, Sega would again become the best game publisher.

GusherKid

My god that is cool. Even if this game turns out to be crap, you have to respect Sega for adhering to this theme so well.

Thorax

Now that's cool as hell. I wish I could work on press kits as fun and cool as that for the company I work for. =*(

def PD

Someone is bound to complain that it is a VHS case and not a DVD case.

Emiat

Sega, you're seriously awesome for doing stuff like this.

Sure, it'll be your third on-rail shooter on Wii (GHOST Squad and HotD2&3 Return were released prior to this), but I do love me some shooters.

BPMΣ

House of the Dead Dialogue?

Fish, Boobs, Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson.
A, is, machete.
Tree.
Onion.

Oh yeah. I'm ready.

Ad-hominem

Do want.

PsyComa

If there was no sega logo then it would look like a actual movie box.

Mr.DuckSauce

cant wait until this ends up as a prize for a kotaku kontest

kickass solo

You can tell they're having fun making this game.

Deft_One

Not shabby. I like the whole retro thing PR for this game.

y2julio

Best of E3 aint got nothin on this award

WEGGLES90

Now that is oldschool, hardcore! I so want this even though it is in VHS and all my VHS players are no longer with me.

Mike's Stalker

Does anyone know if Robert Rodriguez had anything to do with the trailer for this game and the promotional materials? A lot of the effects they use look very similar to the filters that Troublemaker films developed for Planet Terror, and the packaging here looks pretty similar in terms of design.

Leftoverz

i love how the color is even faded to look retro. naice

maraxusofk

The only thing that would make it just that much cooler...is if it smells like cigarette smoke!!! All tapes at EROL'S VIDEO smelled like that!

TracknFieldSpoonKing

RERERERELOAD RELOAD!

I still wanna know if the tape has any content

KaliKOtt

Am I the only person who thought that first pic was of a VHS cassette box initially?

JAcK0R

@wanion:
Heh I still cruise in my car bumping CDs.

Damn that would make me feel old if someone said that to me though.

Terrorsaur.

I have to agree with other: Sega is SO full of win for totally following through on the whole theme of this game, from beginning to end. :-)

As for Shenmue 3...I think we'll get it if Sega brings it back and redoes 1 & 2 for the Wii. If they do something like that, I think we can be pretty sure that 3 would be on the way. And personally, I'd like to see that, as I never got to try the first two, and have always wanted to. :-)

Highlar

@BPMΣ: I'm going to go with you really can't have too many on-rails shooters; especially since you don't need to buy guns for them now. I would care less if arcades still had a big presence, but they are fading away.

steve

This game can't be complete without the obligatory Uwe Boll cameo! As long as we get to shoot the bastard.

Or hell, if there's a sequence that mocks his "directorial choices", I'd love it.

Dave Silva

Kudos on Sega for using 702xx, one of two 3-digit ZIP prefix that could only be in Louisiana, but isn't actually used. The other's 709xx.

Even better is that, by the patterns of ZIP code allocation, 702xx would most likely be in southeast Louisiana, probably the western Mississippi River delta, since 701xx is New Orleans and 703xx is Houma, to the southwest. 700xx covers the eastern delta, 704xx is north of the lake.

There's a ZIP code gap around Barataria Bay, which is a godforsaken enough place without zombies or VHS movie rental stores. That'd be my guess.

oboreruhito

looks great will be picking it up whenever it comes out.

Steven

@BPMΣ: What about Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles?

GoldRenamon

When I looked at the pic, my immediate reaction was also "megadrive!".
awesome swag.

nikolaj

Awesome!!! It looks like a old Genesis case.

MURDERFACE

Kotaku speaking nicely of SEGA? The world is ending. :o This looks good. I'm liking the feeling this game is delivering.

@GusherKid: "Now if only they would make Shenmue 3, Sega would again become the best game publisher." Sure they would be respected again. That would also be the last thing SEGA ever did too. They'd surelly go down with style though, that much is obvious (and sad too).

@GoldRenamon: Because Resident Evil isn't from SEGA? Read carefully next time "yout [SEGA] third rail-shooter on wii".

K_K

I love it! It looks like a VHS case for a rented movie from the 70s that's always been in a movie rental store.

Shin-san

Nice Sega... very nice.

SuperSplashBro

i agree shin-san

smoke731mcb

Nice one Sega! Is it just me or does it seem to be SEGA is slowly getting its act together. Bayonetta looks good. They won't have any Sonic sex in the next Sonic game, this...Now if only Golden Axe comes out good enough.

I would have expected this from Capcom for Dead Rising than HotD but I'm cool either way.

excaliburps

Hah.... they better sell the real game in that case!

Tehman

This brought back the wierdest memory. Does ANYONE have any memory of a vhs/gun game combo system thingy from probably the mid-late 80's? Did betamax have something like this? I'm only asking because I have VAGUE memories of playing something like that with a friend when I was young in his basement. It was a jet fighter game with FMV, almost like an early Tomcat Alley for Sega CD. Wow, I've really just dated myself. I've been searching the internets but have come up empty so far. :(

Sparky13

+ Watch video

HOTD Overkill has NOTHING on Pops Ghostly...

Sparky13

I FOUND IT!! ACTION MAX, The game was BLUE THUNDER! VHS HYBRID LIGHTGUN GAMES FTMFW!!!!

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Sparky13

@Sparky13: You actually found that surprisingly fast compared to when I was looking for it about a year ago..

While the console didn't really last long at all, (I think about 5 games were made for it) it was really ahead of its time.

I remember feeling very weird like..."uhhh graphics like this..im so confused, why does Sonic look like shit and this looks like real life?"

But then again, I was very young, and the console died out quick. But it is a weird to remember the console and say...did this even happen, I remember it so clearly.

Lol, I think having played any of Action Max gives you an automatic "Videogame Nerd License"

Brantis

There is ONE thing that can make me more excited for the ridiculous over-the-topness of this. (Other than a 360 version with solid lightguns so I don't have to buy a Wii) At the beginning of the game, before even getting to the menu, a zombie shuffles by and stares at the screen and screams "SEGA!". Yeah, I just dated myself there, but come on retro-awesomeness all over the place.

Dual45s

So no pictures of the t-shirt?

Tycoonalex1337

Genesis/Mega Drive case for sure (don't see the connection between VHS tapes and SEGA games).

uberLAB

It's B-movies, generally available on VHS. You never had those sleezy kinds? It would have been even better if they did the cardboard sleeve thing.

But this will be one contest I'm finally looking forward too.

PS: B-movies suck on dvd because the picture is too sharp. Analogue tape has that grittiness.

Jet Set

I'm actually wearing a shirt that was formerly a brick that I got from GDC.

Still... Another house of the dead? Ah, well... It's obvious that the wii is the real home of the rail shooters.

bobtheduck

suffer like G did!

DorkimusPrime

I want it!

StabMasterArson

I want it, I'm so stoked for this game.

StabMasterArson