The creepy demo P.T. (short for Playable Teaser) on the never-before-seen horror game Silent Hills by Hideo Kojima continues to inspire fans over five years after it was first released for PlayStation 4.
In the past there have been various remakes of the short but extremely scary game in which you explore the corridors of a cursed house and solve cryptic puzzles. Now a fan has rebuilt the game and ported it to a 33 year old Mac engine.
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Developer Ryan Trawick uses the age-old Mac Engine Hypercard to give Kojima's iconic horror demo a whole new look.
In case you haven't heard of Hypercard, the development tool for the Macintosh used revolutionary hyperlinks that developers could use to create databases, multimedia presentations and even games. For example, the adventure classic Myst was created with hypercard, in which the players click from one stationary picture to the next.
The P.T. hypercard remake captures many details of the original despite extremely low resolution and monochrome graphics. The hallway, which we have to walk through again and again in the original, is immediately recognizable:
If you want to try out the minimalist new edition yourself, you can download it free of charge from Itch.io.
Not the first remake
By P.T. there have been numerous remakes so far, which is also due to the exclusive nature of the horror demo – after all, it could only be downloaded for a limited time before it disappeared from the PlayStation Store for good.
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After a 17-year-old first published a playable demo of his remake for the PC – but that from Konami immediately stamped out was – another remake appeared early last year that lets you experience the title in the unreal engine and even in virtual reality.
