October 24, 2005: Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth released
Written in 1926 and published in 1928, The Call of Cthulhu was a short story about a Kraken-like monster by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Since then the Cthulhu mythos has seen several variants in pop culture, and it tread a rocky path to make it into video games.