Very cool, thanks for sharing

I played the shit out of that VHS game as a kid! Thanks for sharing.

This is awesome, and that second picture (reminiscent of Emperor Palpatine) is so creepy.

This looks fun from the screenshots. I like the graphics and the screen with the clowns! Thanks for this!

This looks fantastic. Very eager to play this, thanks for sharing!

crazy. I think I have this VHS board game in my basement still.

Used to love playing the board game. I had all 3 expansions (baron samedi, catherine the witch and elizabeth bathory). Also had the harbingers board game they released after. Pretty sure I got all of them kicking around still..

I played this game growing up and still own a working copy of Atmosfear: The Harbingers (the best in the series, for my money's worth). Wenanty Nosul (the actor that portrayed The Gatekeeper and Baron Samedi) is unreal in the role. Recreating his performance is honestly the hardest part of any hope to reproduce this game in any other form (and partly why the DVD version of the game was, no hard feelings to David Whitney, just not the same.) Super cool thing to find.

Wow! This is awesome. I have the original NightMare, I got it along with Dragon Strike when Kay Bee Toys was clearancing out VHS board games. My mom bought them for me and gave them to me at Christmas. Then I got older and found the Atmosphere version which blew my mind. Later they also made a DVD version of Atmosphere. Crazy that this exists. So awesome, thanks for sharing!

Would someone care to briefly explain VHS board games and how you enjoyed them back in the day? I somehow missed this.

Pretty much you would put in the VHS tape, it would have a bit of a countdown to "the start of the game" then it would have a brief intro explaining a few rules. On the first one he asked certain questions that you played along with (who is the oldest, who is the youngest, etc). 

Long story short, the tape acted as a countdown timer for the game, and the "Host" of the game was whatever monster (first one was gatekeeper, second was baron samedi, etc). While the "Host" is on screen you have to stop playing and do as your instructed ("whoevers turn it is, take fate card" for example). As the game timer counts down the "host" tended to turn more monsterous.

It was actually really fun for what it was, tells you to "set the mood" (turn down the lines, turn up the volume), as a kid when the gatekeeper popped up used to be a good jump scare.

*EDIT* Youtube has rips of the VHS if your interested in watching

For those curious about the series, some details over at BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardga...
A Couple 'A Cowboys had a real hit in AUS with this series, and it did moderately well overseas.
Started with Nightmare, then Atmosfear: The Harbingers and some spin-offs of that one based on the playable characters.
A number of characters from the game, as well as some others, eventually got tapes, be they standalone games or fan-made things. You can dig up some really neat stuff on YouTube.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I think I would have been into this back in the day.

Very nice find  
Is it just me or does the hooded gatekeeper guy remind anyone else of https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.n...

Awesome find! Thanks for sharing! I will be checking this out as soon as I get home for sure.