Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland

Confirmed working on Windows 11 Pro 23H2.
Mount iso Disc1 Install in Program Files (86). After install is done open Program Files (86) folder, then DreamWorks Interactive folder and then the Horrorland folder. Right click gb.exe, click properties, go to compatibilty tab, check run this program in compatibilty mode for: Windows XP Service Pack 2, then check run in 640x480 resolustion, apply and ok. Then go back to your mounted iso folder, there go to setup folder and run gboption.exe uncheck directdraw. Then right click gb.exe in the same folder and repeat as before: Right click gb.exe, click properties, go to compatibilty tab, check run this program in compatibilty mode for: Windows XP Service Pack 2, then check run in 640x480 resolustion, apply and ok. If you want to play this lazy from the couch like me then use a wireless or wired controller and bind controlls with a program like ReWASD. Thanks for the upload!

Downloaded and followed instructions and when went to gb.exe, it says that the game is not found on the drive and need to setup and install. So I go back to Setup, and it says cannot run on this PC. Is there a work around?

I like Goosebumps!!

This was awesome! what a blast from the past, I wish there were more of these to play. super nostalgic. took a while to get going on windows 10 but eventually got there with the help of the comments above. Had to unpack with winrar, uncheck direct draw in bgoption.exe, run on compatability mode windows vista service pack 2, reduced colour mode, 640 x 480 screen resolution. Youll know it is working correctly when a screen with a bunch of text loads in colour with a hand floating around as soon as you fire it up. 10/10. thankyou abandonware and the ppl in the comments. I wish there was a way to slow down the panning of the screen in play coz it is crazy fast but you get used to it. some of the puzzles are pretty tough as well but the walkthroughs will get you through.

"MID" "CROW" *FART NOISE*

Followed the instructions below, but when it runs its black and white and a bit distorted. Anyway to fix the color settings?

So i followed the instructions, but the screen goes black as soon as we enter horrorland, anyone have options?

thanks for making this game

Hey all thank-you all for your comments. Your comments along with the help of some A.I helped me play both Disc 1 and 2 of this game. What a nostalgia trip, I remember playing this in my school library when I was 6 turning 7 in the year 1996. My little brain was blown away by this games technology at the time. I remember competing to have turns on the one computer that could play it. I remember getting up to the bit with the Werewolf chases you, but I could never get past it, as I could never figure out that the three seperate things the girl was saying were actually the indicators for the three directions you were meant to go during the chase. Anyway, figured it out today over 25-years-later and finished this nostalgia trip of a game. Thank-you.

I'm running on windows 10. You don't need to download the Alternative ISO's and you don't have to download the repackaged one from The Collection Chamber (Do so if you wish and you find playing around with computer directories too convoluted). The version that runs of a DOSBOX interface through a Windows 95 Emulator from The Collection Chamber is slower and has noise stutters, albeit it does work.

Having a file archiver utility tool like WINRAR helps. Simply unpack the contents of the ISO which is packed up in the RAR. Install the game. Access the setup folder. Run “gboption.exe” and uncheck “direct draw.” Open properties for “gb.exe”, and click the compatibility tab. Check to run in “640 x 480” resolution. Running on Windows XP Compatibility Pack 2 worked fine with me.

BEFORE YOU RUN. Make sure you kept that ISO packaged as a ZIP or RAR depending on your Archiver Utility Tool as they are also in fact themselves the ISO's (Digital Image of Disc); simply right click, observe the options and choose "open with" and choose "Windows Explorer". You will notice that a Icon has appeared as if it were a CD next to you hard-drive. You and your computer have successfully fooled the program into thinking a licensed disc has been mounted. THEN you can Run “gb.exe” to play.

As for the disc 2 issue. Simply have the window containing the Horrorland Disc 2.iso ready and open in the background while you play the game. On the screen before you proceed to disc 2; simply pause the game and enter the menu screen; CTRL and TAB; access the blown up window menu and "eject" disc 1 by right clicking on it and finding it in the sub menu. Then proceed to Horrorland Disc 2.iso and "open with" "Windows explorer" which should mount the digital image of disc 2 onto you system. Then simply click back into the game which should be in the background. Exit the menu and proceed through the forest past the barrel to proceed to the contents of disc 2 without any issue. No need to physically burn the disc and have a disc player. I have played the game in 2023 on my windows 10 laptop completely free and digital only.

I hope this helps you young-ins get past this finicky programming in order to play these older games. But I tell you it makes playing them super rewarding.

The guy below me is a dumb idiot

im 10 and never played this but its installing I hysr want to play for first time!!!!

Still a great game after all these years, brings back so many memories. That thing in the sewer has haunted my dreams since I was 5. Tested and working fine on winXP, win7 (xp compatibility + 640x480 reolution) and on win10 (run as administrator)

So I found a way to play this game, since disc 2 doesn't work. Follow this link [ https://collectionchamber.blogspot.com/2017/10/goosebumps-escape-from-horrorland.html?m=1 ]. This is a link to a Windows 95 emulator by DosBox, which already has the game preinstalled. And yes, disc 2 does work. Enjoy!