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Fails WP:GNG, didn’t find any reviews. This is a game made by Creative Computing magazine and a small section should be merged to the existing section on that article, similar to other games that are listed there: Creative Computing (magazine)#Software.

Note: This game shouldn’t be confused with a 1982 game of the same title, also released for the Atari 2600, see Haunted House (video game). There is also another game with the same title for the TRS-80 from the same time frame. Mika1h (talk) 16:24, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Video games and United States of America. Mika1h (talk) 16:24, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment I had no luck finding reviews either – I went through magazines up to the end of 1981 and only found a couple of ads for this one. Mentioning it in the CC article would be fine, but I don’t think it needs a redirect for the name as there are just so many games called Haunted House – there are at least three text-based Haunted Houses from 1979 alone! Adam Sampson (talk) 19:11, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Inclined to say that this is a situation where the name isn’t helping. All I found was the manual: [1]. On good faith other users did a decent look, and because all the page has currently has are database pages, leaning delete as there isn’t anything to merge – no primary or reliable sources can substantiate the release information. ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 21:25, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  There are some primary sources like this advertisement: [2] and this small piece in the magazine itself: [3]. —Mika1h (talk) 23:36, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• This is unrelated to deletion but if kept I believe the title should be Haunted House (1979 video game) since this appears to be the only video game named Haunted House to be released in that year.–65.93.194.180 (talk) 22:54, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  It isn’t. Adam Sampson (talk) 20:36, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Fails WP:GNG. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 17:29, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]