Wow, this game is a masterpiece. Graphics are excellent with terrifying monsters and vicious gore effects, haunting music and simple but fun gameplay. It even has a tragic story and ending. It feels like a classic horror movie.
Well this was never released on the Genesis, but yeah the Turbografx16 version was censored a little bit but not much. Now the Splatterhouse 2 and 3 for the Genesis were bloodbath gore filled fun, no punched were pulled on those.
@QUAD_RETURNS - Everything that isn't total agreement and capitulation is "intolerant" these days. I'm just surprised you weren't called a racist and bigot too... :D
This was by far my fave arcade game as a 15 year old (Along with Burning Rubber) and I got so good at it I could complete it without losing a single heart..to this day one of my greatest achievements 😂 Im 49 next week so thanks for bringing back some great memories 👍🏻
The credits roll was always solemn. Love the way the mask shatters, Rick just stands there, then the awesome song starts as the credits roll. You just feel the weight of what he'd lost at that moment. Freedom, but at the cost of his love.
I don't think I ever saw this in an arcade back in the day but my uncle had the Turbo Grafx 16 version and as a scared four year old I would head for another room. Over a decade later I would play it and I loved it. The terrifying atmosphere, the gratuitous gore, the nerve-racking music and even the surprisingly compelling narrative all convalesce into a timeless experience. This game is masterpiece and a fantastic achievement for the medium in the time it was made. What I would give for an indie developer to make a horror action side scroller in a similar graphical style. Maybe I ought to do the job myself.
Go for it! On a completely unrelated note, I actually find the TurboGrafx 16 version is better. The music provides a creepier atmosphere, and the extra heart is very helpful. The red mask looks more distinct than the white one as well.
This game was a pain in my sides when I was a kid. The cool but unsettling music, the horryfing stages, the disturbing enemies... Even when I have had experience with this sort of horror, it still left an impression on me when I first saw it.
Whats cool is my uncle grew up playing this with his buddies and he and I were playin it on my switch and when he saw it he was like holy crap, splatterhouse! I was like wait you played this when you were younger and hes like hell yeah. It still looks as cool as it did when it came out
What I loved best about this game was the devious little traps the game would set for you once you thought you were in the clear. The last worm flying out of the corpse, the falling chandelier, the exploding heart....great stuff!!
Absolutely for a game released in 1988 it still holds up, the graphics still look great, monsters look cool, the music is excellent and the gameplay is still fun and challenging!
My dad had an arcade cabinet of this he picked up at a pawn shop or something. He pulled the guts out of the lockbox and rigged a doorbell button up so that you could just slap it for credits. I can't tell you how many hundreds of hours I put into this game as a kid. I haven't touched it in 20 years and can probably still speedrun it from memory. Good times.
Gods, but this game was amazing - the innovation in the enemies; the multiple routes, terrifying samples... it had it all. And for 1988, when most arcade titles were still just jerky primary colours. One of the greatest side-scrolling hitters of all time. 🧟♂️🧟♂️👌👌👌👌
In the lore the house was not there before....And several college student's vanished in this cursed aera no one could figure it out until one night after a moive shoot that rick stared in he left with his gf and took a wroug turn..._you know the rest.....Check out spatterhouse waku graffiti
This is an absolute legend of a game, literally spent all my pocket money trying to complete it and failed. I’ve now seen where I was going wrong. Thank for sharing, this is amazing
Used to be able to complete this in the arcade without dying. Downloaded it on mame not so long ago and after a few goes, complete it one credit. Quite a few games from back in the days like that was an achievement.
This game is awesome. I can’t believe it was released in 1988. I was still playing 8bit Nintendo games back then. I guess they always saved the better technology for the arcades in those days.
My favorite fight has got to be the battle with the Inverted Cross. The reason I say is that after you defeat it, a pretty hymn starts to play and rick walks over to an altar and hesitates until the hymn is finished.
Originally, Rick and Jennifer were college students in parapsychology. They were to do a thesis on Dr. West and his mysterious disappearance...by going to his house. Yeah. I know. Brilliant idea.
Severin Dahl you don’t know his age. Why would you assume that he’s too young to have played this game when it first came out? Or maybe he just played this game a few years ago. Nothing wrong with that bro.
Imagine the one you love being turned into a hideous monster, you are forced to fight and kill her. That rage, that unbearable rage boiling your blood. I can feel it
That's really fucking dark to make her an innocent victim who doesn't get to come back. I almost wish she hadn't been rescued in the sequel just to preserve that. On its own, there's no happy ending here, unlike a lot of other games.
I kinda agree but...they still nailed it with the plot of the sequel. “She doesn’t need to die Rick”. The two main characters merely pawns in a power game between two malevolent supernatural forces.
Honestly its really cool that they made it that way cause not every story has a good engine. Some of them only end badly. As much as I dont like bad endings I have to admit its just part of life and sometimes its a better way to tell a story than having a good ending. I wrote a short story in highschool about a kid whos girlfriend was murdered by gang members and he goes on a one man rampage in the city to kill as many as he can and his best friend comes to help him but he gets gunned down and in his dying moments he hands his friend her necklace and says bury us under the tree and please never forget me. Tell everyone im sorry.
This game is sole reason why I bought the Namco Arcade bundle from the Switch e-shop... All the other games were a bonus. This game is awesome! Tough as nails and imagery still scary.
I loved playing this game in the arcade! Graphics, music and sound were so 80s style but very entertaining! I'm gonna get the Switch version of this soon. I can't wait to play it again!!
They tried a modern redo of it. It didn't work out as well. It didn't have the variety the old games had though they did really try to give it a good B-movie feel.
Original? Nothing it's Original in this Game O.S.T. is copied from Fabio Frizzi e Walter Rizzati works, Italian Horror Movies... The Carachter is a rip off of Jason Voorhees, the Boss are various resemblaces with Poltergeist or Evil Dead or House by Cemetery himself (The Most derubated) Bah
@@brittanybecker170I don’t know the B movie aspect of the first 3 games were what made these games so cool, 2010 feels like they tried to mix Resident evil, Dmc, and Doom and I feel that’s what killed it.
I remember finishing this game in the arcade - ONCE! I could never finish it again, always got destroyed on the last level.... you make this look easy now. Thanks for the memories.
Look up a game called "Chiller". If that could fly(Though only barely) in America during 1986, this could've done fairly well, in spite of it being only in Japan.
80's were a time when horror movies were not afraid to show you lots of blood and intestines, alongside with some partial nudes, a game like this was not strange for those times.
i was a kid playing this game and i always just figured it was supposed to be Jason one thing missing though no machete's used as weapons in this game they knew exactly what they were doing they made this game were we could play as a Jason type character but not really jason it was a marketing ploy they seemed to have gotten away with it to lol PS Had there been a machete in this game it would have been jason 100% yet strange hes kinda the hero in this game
I love how mixed in with the gothic horror style enemies, the game also has random mundane objects attacking you like chairs and picture frames. I guess no one told Namco furniture isn't particularly scary.
01:40,I remember that chick in the cage since I was a kid.What the hell she was doing, I'll never know.She kept spreading her legs open and waving her hands back and forth.Surprised that was allowed in the arcade since you can see up her dress when she opens her legs.
This was also in the era of pre SJW so most teens didn't really care that much about content like that and "adults" didn't go to arcades so they never saw it.
@@loka7783 "adults" seem to be the ones who bitch and whine over untamed content more than anyone else until the companies remove it from anyone else who could enjoy more violent, gothic ideas. Adults seem to be far more stupid, far more immature than anyone else. I'm not a kid, I'm just in making a clear observation of how the majority of "adults" seem to be. A bunch of grown infants.
@@Absolutely_puck_fakestine Hey, at least give me a rhyming troll riddle first, so I can cross the internet bridge. something...like... "To pass to the next website you see, you must answer this rhyming riddle for me," and so on and so forth. Haha. lol
I remember playing this game back when I was a freshman in Highschool in 1988-89. I freaking loved this game because it was so hard & yet looked so simple. Like the person that released this video walk-through. They hardly ever take any damage through these levels which is very annoying but satisfying at the same time. I never got past level 6 cause I would run out of lives when I played it on my Turbo Grafx-16 back in the day. Now I play it on my Nintendo Switch through the Namco Museum video arcade bundle I purchased. Maybe now I can finally get past level 6. Also was there anyone else who found out how to slide the Rick Taylor masked character by accident while fighting in the game? That's how I came upon the move. I noticed the slide move isn't listed as a move in the game. Just Attack & Jump were the only two maneuvers in the game in 1989 🎮. Even the Nintendo Switch Namco Museum Version has (A) for attack & (B) for Jump. Playing this game brings back so many memories & frustrations because I was 🤬 never good enough to finally rescue Jennifer 😭😭😭😭😭😭Maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel now that I've seen this video 📹.. thanks for sharing even though I'm 8 years late to this post.. ha ha 😂
Straight down memory lane.. thank you. I remember playing this game when I was like 7 or 8 on my sega. Could NEVER remember the name! Such a classic. This game is probably the reason i can watch gory shit haha.
Wow it's like taking a trip down memory lane I can remember so many times walking to middle school and stopping at the convenience store and dropping a few of my lunch money quarters in there..!👍
those writhing, vomiting, and tormented beings in stage 2 could be how the captives in stage 1 appear following whatever insanity their subjected to by Dr. West. The poor sods are reduced to shells that writhe, vomit, scream, and this loops endlessly, showing they’re somehow alive. It’s possible that their minds are gone though, thus making them ‘dead’ in some sense. West’s that vicious, and it’s shown by how he keeps his experiments alive in a show of pure sadomasochism
Its funny how James and Mike struggled with this game and this guy is beating it easily Wonder how many times he practiced this to get trough without getting killed once
It's not that hard compared to other arcade games. I struggled with the Jennifer and Womb bosses a little as a kid but was able to learn the patterns. Splatterhouse 2 for the Genesis is much harder if I recall.
i love when arcades does this, in this way it attracts more people and encourages them to play the game since a "noob" can play it without problems, and makes them think "i can beat the guy from the demo, im not going to be like him" and spend more money on the machine :P
considering how spectacularly this game used to both batter me, & single-handedly consume almost my entire supply of 10p's in the arcades waaay back in the day, for you to have gotten thru it almost flawlessly has left me mightily impressed.. hell of a run, & a damn shame that you took those 3 hits.. impressive stuff..
dante bigguy Most gaming companies are trying to turn all their games into 3D and just because a game is 3D that does not make the game more entertaining for the players. Look at the most successful games on smartphones. None are 3D
dante bigguy yes yes i have but that doesnt mean anything. ive played ms pacman and wasted 10 bucks on it. it certenly makes the game better but once you play it without paying they get boring. yes theres a feeling of excitement knowing you only have so many quarters or so few lifes left but im good with not paying so much for a game.
