While I can’t say I ever played the arcade game, every kid with cajones on the block had a pocket-sized HuCard of indecency in the form of the TurboGrafx-16 port. Splatterhouse is one of the ultimate gross-out products of the ’80s, from the Jason Voorhees mask (toned down in the US to curb the similarities a bit, but we can all see how well that worked) to every exploding baby and vomiting prisoner that danced along with the jarring soundtrack. If anyone reading this has a shred of nostalgia for this series, then that’s exactly where the game will bring them back to, as well. West’s horrifying experiments.Īfter typing all of that out, I feel like it’s ready to be slapped on the back of a shady VHS box and shipped straight to the cavernous depths of video rental hell. Now, praying that it’s not too late, Rick must traverse the mansion and defeat the nasty hellspawn creations brought to life by Dr. As one would guess, West Mansion is the titular house of splatter, and their quest for knowledge quickly becomes one of survival as Jennifer is kidnapped and Rick wakes up from being knocked out with the menacing Terror Mask inexplicably stuck to his face. Released in Japanese arcades in 1988, Splatterhouse gave birth to Rick Taylor, who heads to the creepy West Mansion with his girlfriend for a school project. Considering the fact that, in the hopefully not so distant future, we’ll be firing up the 3D franchise reboot, there’s never been a better Halloween season to revisit Rick and his neverending struggle with a mask that was not so subtly torn from the slasher big screen.
Namco’s more-gore franchise Splatterhouse is and always has been the nastiest of the nasty. Forget Gears of War, Ninja Gaiden II, or any other current-gen title with an ounce of blood on its hands.
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