Insmouse No Yakata (aka: Innsmouth Mansion, Innsumausu No Yakata)

Released in JPN, developed by I’Max and brought out 13 October 1995, original price: 4900 Yen, serial#: VUE-VIMJ-JPN, genre: adventure/shooter, game has no backupcapacity.
Language accessibility: Medium, the main menu's and everything is in English, only the storyline text is in Japanese, but basically the game points itself (shoot em up), go
here for control help and here for passwords.

Side-note: This game was based upon a movie license, which was supposedly created from the book Innsmouse by HP Lovecraft which takes place in the fog-shrouded town of Insmouth.



And check this page out for the whole HP Lovecraft Innsmouth story or at least a huge part of it:
http://www.gizmology.net/lovecraft/works/innsmouth.htm

How I know it's based on a book? Take a look at this Amazon.com webstore where you can buy a book in the series. The book is newer stories told in a similar vein as the originals from the 20s & 30s:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568821131/qid%3D1041101754/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-0888820-7405523

Intro:

Pass menu:

(endlevel progress map, 4 different ways to end the maze!)

Ingame:


Tunes (turn your volume down)