Closing the loop with the box art that shipped:

220px-Hauntedhouse_atari-1

Also, Haunted House was an amaaaaazing game don’t @ me.

Pretty tricky, @Left_Empty.

Haunted House rocked.

Guilty as charged. I had prepped it months ago, after seeing it in the wonderful book.

Interesting! I went down a rabbit hole after reading that it was supposed to be the cover and it looks like it may have been intended to be used down the road on a re-issue or something? 1983 catalog has Haunted House with the re-issue / re-print box style and the art above: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/236356-monaco-new-zealand-catalogue/

Guess I have to think of something now – give me a few to think and I’ll get something out there (that hopefully hasn’t already been done, getting harder to do that!).

Please bear with me – struggling to think of a good one. If I don’t think of a good one by tonight I’ll find something, haha.

Ok, here we go. I bet this one doesn’t get guessed. =/

Well at least we got a pretty good idea of when it was released!

Really? How so? (Or is it just because it is me? =)). Second clue:

Iridium

Nope.

That purple 3D rendered pattern dates it between 1995 and 2000.

Wow, that’s crazy. Yep! I threw in the ESRB to help put a date on it but that wasn’t needed it turns out.

I have various horrible names coming to my mind, but I can’t help but have Disc World’s name floating in here since the first snap. Not sure why, as it’s hardly sci-fi !

It’s not Starship Titanic, but I’ll say Starship Titanic.

Nope, a bit more obscure than both of those. Sold maybe a thousand or so copies. I was tempted not to even do this one but in a thread a decade or so back someone on Qt3 mentioned it.

I’m pretty sure I know this, as it seems pretty squarely in my wheelhouse in that period, but I can’t quite place it.

It isn’t Chronomaster.

Maybe one of the later Journeyman Projects or something?

Nope. I have a feeling this clue will nail it:

I googled it and never heard of it so as not to cheat I’m going to guess Dark Souls 2.

Not the sightest clue. But it’s obviously an FMV game.

A straight up guess; Dark Planet?

I can play the ‘append random word onto the title and see if you’re righht’ Game too ;)

Dark… Skies?