Splatterhouse Longplay (Arcade) [60 FPS]
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Developed and published by Namco in 1988
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I still remember the first time I encountered Splatterhouse. As part of the holidays I had with my parents as a child, there would be at least one trip to a seaside arcade and 1988 was no exception; after all, the arcades were the place to experience the best that the video game industry had to offer.
Along the back wall of the arcade, tucked in between Ghosts 'n' Goblins and OutRun, stood a game that I'd never seen before. The attract mode was playing and I remember standing there, transfixed, as a muscle-bound figure proceeded to punch, kick and tear his way through a series of zombie-like foes, each of which burst open in a fountain of green gore. Every arcade game that I'd ever seen up until that point had been bright, joyous affairs designed to appeal to children and adults alike, but this game was something else entirely.
The game's plot centres on two college students, Rick Taylor and Jennifer Willis (Rick's girlfriend), who are forced to take shelter from a ferocious storm inside a nearby mansion. Unfortunately, the mansion has long rumoured to be haunted, hiding the gruesome experiments of the enigmatic Dr. West. No sooner has the door closed behind them when all Hell breaks loose as all manner of horrors burst forth from the gloom, spiriting Jennifer away whilst Rick loses consciousness.
Left for dead, Rick is saved by the appearance of the "Terror Mask", an ancient artifact that has bestowed him with super-human levels of strength and endurance. Spurred on by the thoughts of Jennifer and the power of the mask, Rick enters into the house to do battle with whatever evil lurks within.
The game is set across a series of side-scrolling levels, each containing monsters to defeat and perilous traps to avoid. Make no mistake, this is a fiendishly hard game, at least until the player has put in sufficient practice to learn the layout of each level, monster positions and how best to deal with them.
Having been imbued with the power of the mask, Rick can sustain a number of hits before he succumbs to death. The number of hits he can take is displayed by the 'Life' gauge in the bottom left of the screen. Although getting hit by monsters or traps will cost Rick a life point, it's also possible to earn a single point back by beating a level.
As for the game's combat, Rick can dispose of his foes with a swift punch or kick. It is also possible to execute a powerful slide-tackle that does more damage than normal attacks; the slightly sludgy controls mean that this can be quite difficult to pull off, plus Rick can't be controlled whilst sliding, so it's possible to get into more trouble if used at the wrong moment.
In addition to fisticuffs, Rick will be able to arm himself with a variety of weapons left lying around the house. Right off the bat, the game lives up to it's title by giving you a gigantic meat cleaver with which enemies can, quite literally, be split in two! If the cleaver didn't bring a grin to your face, just wait Rick gets his hands on the two-by-four; hitting enemies with this will knock them into the background, causing them to burst all over the rear wall!
Unfortunately, not everything about the game is a huge success. For one, I'm not a fan of the trial-and-error gameplay mechanics, nor the sluggish control scheme. They're not terrible, but as a coin-op experience, most players would die after after 30 seconds of gameplay and never bother to see the rest of the game.
In truth, I think Splatterhouse's appeal lies not in the gameplay, but in it's presentation and aesthetics. The game is very much influenced by horror cinema, but not just by the down-right gorey - in a nod to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy, there are touches of dark humour to be found.
The game's graphics and artwork are brilliant. From Rick's hulking, hockey-mask wearing visage, to the creepy, corpse-strewn backgrounds, this is a game that looks every inch the horror game that it set out to be. Some of the graphics on show are quite gruesome and far darker than anything that Mortal Kombat would produce.
The game also features some excellent music and sound effects. From the eerily forboding dungeon music, to the uplifiting organ music when Rick exorcises the house's chapel, everything about the game's soundtrack sounds right. The game also features a number of digitised speech samples and audio effects (mostly screams), that mostly sound great, although it's difficult to understand exactly what some of the characters are saying at times.
Splatterhouse remains classic arcade title that dares to thumb it's nose at it's contemporaries with a darkly macabre style that is still quite unique, even to this day. If you like your games tough and gorey, Splatterhouse is most definitely a game you want to try out.
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Splatterhouse Longplay (Arcade) [60 FPS]: Guide Rick through the horrors of the West Mansion in this goretastic arcade game from Namco! Read the video description for my review!
@EstudiosMiuchan
3 жыл бұрын
F
@easyparts-fj7mm
2 жыл бұрын
The reason why they changed the mask to red because they are afraid people would think it's Jason and they might get sued
@orozking
2 жыл бұрын
@@EstudiosMiuchan Ddf
@econ0003
Жыл бұрын
You should consider enabling scan lines on your emulator. It will give a more accurate representation of the graphics on the original hardware.
@aweirdredtoad3637
Жыл бұрын
@@econ0003 Yeah, but it'll stress people's eyes. I doubt it would look good using scan lines especially from high quality videos on KZread.
5:24 - You do have to admire the cast-iron balls of someone who will happily punch a knife.
@JP47471
3 ай бұрын
I mean he is undead.
@carlosflores4179
27 күн бұрын
I mean he really punches everything. Chairs, Monsters, Knives.... Would you punch any of them?
I never played this game but seeing that it's from 1988, the graphics, animation, monster design, game play, and soundtrack are all pretty incredible for its time.
@luffyomnissj741
Жыл бұрын
game anti - MGTOW !!!.
@shaneoneill5105
Жыл бұрын
Was good but hard so took in a lot of coins lol
@mainwaringjohn
Жыл бұрын
Yes very good but very hard.
@karnagefails333
5 ай бұрын
Wait till you hear the music from Splatterhouse 2.
@karnagefails333
5 ай бұрын
@@luffyomnissj741 Based.
The quality of the art style is insane for 1988. It looks better than a lot of snes titles released 4-5 years later.
@pinkfongcmufan
3 ай бұрын
sounds created by namco are made in 1978. namco arcades are the only stuff that don't have a square-wave sound. the same applies to newer namco games. however, Splatterhouse only sounded like the Sega Genesis due to a new sound chip.
I remember the first time when i watch this arcade: "What? Jason becomes a protector? cool!" What happy days...
@amberkobato2271
3 жыл бұрын
@When you read the comments I will be there . 100% agree =)
@rockymitsu
2 жыл бұрын
I remember having the horrendous pirate port of the PC engine version for the Sega genesis, a great horror cult game from namcot
@user-df5od6xx2r
2 жыл бұрын
At first, it also seemed to me that I was playing for Jason, who decided to kick the ass of the local branch of hell, but when I realized that it wasn't him, I still imagined that I was playing for Jason.
I love this era of arcade games. They pushed the envelope with content and aesthetic. I especially like that it's a good balance between cartoonish and realistic gore which gives it a tame feeling compared to today's realistic games.
@pleilleur
2 жыл бұрын
Creativity was limited by technology, now technology limits creativity, we call that evolution 😋
@mrobscene2912
2 жыл бұрын
@@pleilleur you misspelled devolution. It made us dumber. A lack of imagination breeds a dumber brain.
@XYZ_55
2 жыл бұрын
@@pleilleur You literally said the exact same thing twice.
@pleilleur
2 жыл бұрын
@@XYZ_55 You're right, my choice of words was bad. My point was that today we have sometimes great looking games with very small interest.
@ryanrong495
2 жыл бұрын
But now risk of Controversy and for profit over playibility the companies these days there's barely any game that compares to doom
The view down the hall you get before each stage is straight class.
I'm seeing Friday the 13th, Evil Dead, Hellraiser, Night of the Living Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Alien, Phantasm, Poltergeist....the list goes on. One of the greatest genre games ever.
Seriously this has to be the greatest horror arcade game of all time. And the music is just so utterly spot-on. I must say, Splatterhouse 2 upped the ante to another level. The Splatterhouse 2 music is incredible
@holden6104
2 жыл бұрын
I just wish it had an arcade release and wasn't confined to the Genesis.
@Absolutely_puck_fakestine
2 жыл бұрын
Carnevil is the greatest horror arcade game.
@paulojalaska6896
2 жыл бұрын
@@holden6104 althoug Genesis had a decent version
@holden6104
2 жыл бұрын
@@paulojalaska6896 it was about as good as it could get on that system yea. But I just wish we had an arcade version with better graphics and sound. The game itself was amazing.
@vampirechunks
Жыл бұрын
House of the Dead will always be my favorite horror arcade game for nostalgia reasons (dumped so much money into that machine in high school) but Splatterhouse is legendary if for no other reason than just how unrepentantly gross the visuals/graphics were for 1988. So cool.
Damn that's crazy that we spend so much money trying to beat a 24 min game and most of us could never make it to the end.
@MFFL674
2 жыл бұрын
Me neither. I never beat this on the Turbo Grafx as a kid. He makes stages V and VI look so easy. Man they were brutal.
@brandonloaiza8595
7 ай бұрын
I couldent beat the chainsaw dude lowkey lol
never arrived at stage VII on the cabinet, thank you for showing me the end after so many years!
14:50 Holy shit
@AL82RetrogamingLongplays
6 жыл бұрын
aestheticstorm yeah, the game was pretty dark for the time 😁
@AK-ct9pd
4 күн бұрын
Just her period
I'm glad that this is going to be on the new Namco Museum.
@michalander2131
4 жыл бұрын
And I'm glad that Namco Museum on the Switch ISN'T rated M for Mature because of this game.
@anthonyperez5620
4 жыл бұрын
@@michalander2131 it doesn't have immature languages, sexual, and more gore... Only little bit, and some scary images
@jeffcotten1081
2 жыл бұрын
@@anthonyperez5620 Disagree on the little bit gore part due to the corpses, blood, guts, and body parts strewn all about the levels. Night Slashers is a similar game that is really gory, but got a T rating for some reason.
@dennistaylor5065
2 жыл бұрын
We finally have an uncensored home port after all these years.
@MegaDude10
4 күн бұрын
Splatterhouse, as a franchise, was always a bit weird with ratings. Splatterhouse 3 actually got a T rating (or at least, the Sega equivalent), but Splatterhouse 2's Wii Virtual Console port was M.
I love that Splatterhouse as a series started off as a giant love letter to Evil Dead II (and to some extent, slashers as a genre). Shigeru Yokoyama has some good taste in movies.
@andrevital2480t
2 жыл бұрын
0:07 Week 2
@maddymoore8831
2 жыл бұрын
Jason in Evil Dead location.. WTF
@amysizemore2196
2 жыл бұрын
@@andrevital2480t fnf fan! I repeat! fnf fan! take cover!
@kodinamsinh1267
2 жыл бұрын
@@andrevital2480t please never speak another word for as long as you live
@aweirdredtoad3637
Жыл бұрын
@@andrevital2480t Go to sleep, now.
Personally, I love this game, the music is appropriately scary.
Im just admiring Jason punched the sh*t outta these demons
Old games have something the modern ones miss..
@grm9495
2 жыл бұрын
Is the aesthetic and how unique they were.
@BeefcakeKARS
2 жыл бұрын
charm?
@Jay-og4yb
2 жыл бұрын
A soul
@xnorowend_9872
2 жыл бұрын
nostalgia
@sir_anonimato1171
2 жыл бұрын
Arcade
This scared the hell out of us in 89
@unusualvideos8269
2 жыл бұрын
Lol 🤣 sure it did
I first saw this game when i was in my 7 to 9 years old seeing my cousins play it on their computer, believe me, this game is realy dificult for a child hahaha, seeing you play it now brings me some memories back. Nice video bro.
@hoppinggnomethe4154
2 жыл бұрын
This game looks easier than Contra
The music is so freaking awesome!
@AL82RetrogamingLongplays
7 жыл бұрын
Yep - it surprised me just how good it is!
@TheAzureNightmare
6 жыл бұрын
Al82: Retrogaming & Computing You mean for 1988? Damn right it's surprising...
@hassanawdi3793
2 жыл бұрын
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays check outlast 1
I played this on the cabinet somewhere in the half part of 90's. What a good fun.
In this game Jason is actually the good guy.
Terror Mask: Rip and tear until it is done!
Design of monsters, locations and that low bitrate sounds - masterpiece.
@saturn1returns
Жыл бұрын
The soundtrack invoked a feeling of "you're fucked'
Jason welding a Maverick 88. Pure nightmare
Now i know why jason is so strong
Lol, I love how he just punches and kicks the shit out of everything
@Clausier
2 жыл бұрын
Ikr lol
this game is a certified hood classic
if someone told me this inspired doom I would nod in agreement. This is amazing for 1988.
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine
Жыл бұрын
I haven't seen anything written about that, but I would NOT be surprised to learn if Adrian Carmack, the lead artist for Doom and other old iD Software games, had played this and was a fan. The arcade cabinet was pretty rare in North America, but it was around here and there, and the home console ports and sequels were of course around, so there was plenty of chance for him to spot them. Adrian Carmack loved violent horror movies with lots of blood and gore, in fact he was an edgy guy in general, both in the nice and less nice ways. He had wanted to do detailed violence for the early Dangerous Dave games, but the publisher wanted none of it and didn't allow him to put them in. He HATED working on the Commander Keen games, they were cutesy, cheery, and kid friendly, so Wolfenstein 3D was a real breath of fresh air for him, but Doom though is where he REALLY got to cut loose and get extreme with the violence and gore, like he had always wanted to. Aside from being more than happy to indulge the general shared inspiration the iD Software guys had from movies like Evil Dead 2 and Aliens, he was also personally inspired by memories from an old job doing photocopies at a hospital, where he got to see a lot of gruesome disease and injury which stuck in his mind. In Doom 2's secret Level 32, you can find Commander Keen hanging from a noose, four of them, and you have to shoot them to pieces to exit the map. That was his dig at having to work on those games.
So it's basically Jason Voorhees knocking off ghould head. Nice!!!!!
12:50 I'm groovin'!
@JamesMcCloud966
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I'm never going to unhear that.
Damn, I cant believe how good TG-16 got it right.
Damn, even this Arcade Game makes you feel sorry for the Protagonist. The Japanese really know their shit, when it comes to, making great Videogames.
20:46 Oops, I just knocked over my box of cereal. :(
As a kid this was one of the hardest arcade games I can remember playing
the grafic, the gore, oof that why i love this game
Oh god the most powerful enemy ever *jumping chair*
"Hey, aren't you Jason Vorhees? Wow! Can I have your autogr*HARPOON*"
I remember dying laughing the first time I saw 14:13 in the arcade. I remember joking with my then girlfriend that games were becoming so realistic I initially thought it was a video recording of our latest argument.
@unusualvideos8269
2 жыл бұрын
Is the same way she laughs 🤣🤣🤣
this shit seems way more fun than the average modern video game
Great long play! Excellent job getting through with one life, and the sounds/visuals are top notch! Also, thank you for omitting commentary 😊
8:39 this is music done right, you know it's going to happen but it's still done perfectly
Difficult game. A definite quarter muncher in it's day.
Jason a monster fighting and killing other monsters that’s cool 😎
The final boss of this game must be the inspiration for Attack on Titan.
Jason in Evil Dead location.. WTF..
Jason hitting homeruns
Probably the best sound effects of all time for an arcade graphics before it's time
@tatsujincorp
2 жыл бұрын
What?
In a sense a proto survival horror game limited items and weapons slow movement strong enemies tough bosses sound familiar people?
You just took me back to my childhood circa 1991/92. Used to play this at an arcade at Ayr beach. Amazing
У меня аж сердце прихватило как я увидел это. Та самая потерянная игра детства.
@alexkimm1148
2 жыл бұрын
Сэга?
@polypusscriptorem1781
2 жыл бұрын
@@alexkimm1148 кнопочные телефоны
@Vectormantudeoz
Жыл бұрын
@@polypusscriptorem1781 Splatterhouse Java
A masterpiece!
That audio is amazing.
Man, I used to love this game back in the day. Used to pump the machine full of quarters at the local hole in the wall arcade till they got rid of it cause it was said to be too violent. Begged my mom to buy it for me, but she heard it was too violent, never knew they had a part two and three and definitely didn’t know there was a remake made a few years ago.
wow you did a good job at playing this game.
i remember years ago as a little kid back in the 90s playing this at my cousins house cant remember it was on turbo graphics or coleco vision but still it was a fun game to play
I remember having this on the Turbo Graffix as a kid and being legit freaked out 😆 the good old days
@tatsujincorp
2 жыл бұрын
Grafx*
@scottgordin9709
Жыл бұрын
Dang, you had a Turbo Graffix 16, you must’ve been the kid in school who’s parents had money!🤣😂👍👍👍
How is it possible that I never even heard about this title. And I did play a lot of games from these years.
A real 1988 death metal video game masterpiece hahaha. The music is really scary,the ideas very sick,just awesome.
The first time I've played the remake of the Splatterhouse Game a few years ago for my Xbox 360 and unlocking all 3 playable original Sega Genesis games of the Splatterhouse Series and i cracked up laughing hearing that floating monster dude in a hat blurring from either saying (I DIDN'T DO IT!) or (How You Doin?) if you can barely make that out of it from the audio i actually thought that was pretty damn funny when I've heard that. 😆😅😂🤣 HAHA!!!!!
Thanks for the memories. I enjoyed this game in my youth but never played it this well (not sure I could as an adult lol) or beat it if I recall.
also i heard the arcade had some speakers that produced a sound barely audible to human ears but that put on edge whomever heard it, for that extra horror effect
Jason be working on his black belt in karate for this one Damn
Massively impressed with your gameplay 👏
That first boss stage reminded me of the horror movie slither
PERFECT HORROR GAME
really neat hearing the music samples used in South Mansion.
7:09-7:25. Best part
10:45 Perhaps I should try bringing an axe to church and see how well that goes over.
I'm surprised this wasn't made into a horror movie.
@Svoorhout85
2 жыл бұрын
I can imagine a Friday 13th spinoff where Jason fights a greater evil. Kind of like how Arnold became a good guy in Terminator 2. (wich I consider one of if not THE best action movie of all time)
i came here to see what this was and ended up watching the whole thing. XD great video!
Imagine a souls like game with this stylistics
@NikkiandI
2 жыл бұрын
9:31 fog door into boss battle souls like confirmed
@izanagi3366
2 жыл бұрын
Blasphemous? ._.
@onutrof1157
2 жыл бұрын
@@izanagi3366 Nah, they're just both 2D, but I meant a souls like that looks like a typical slasher horror movie
@izanagi3366
2 жыл бұрын
@@onutrof1157 ah okay got it, can't imagine how that would work but I would be down for it
Man this brings back memories of the first time I saw this game, not in the arcade but on the TurboGrafix 16.
I was playing this game like 2006 when I was a kid. Now I found it
15:34 one minute of silence 😞
This game actually looks pretty awesome
I can imagine that this game was pretty badass back in the day.
I Didn't knew this game existed, now i know what i want to play!
I never could watch this game cause i was so scared of it as a kid
3:00 my favorite stage
You make this look really easy. Never actually played any of the splatter house.
nothing better than blasting demons with your own fists!
Why character look like jason voorhes
Excellent gameplay. It makes you wonder how many times the player have to lose in the game before being able to do such a fine gameplay 😎🤙
Jason being overpowered be like:
Never heard of this game back in the old days.
Kinda sadge that the girlfriend dies. :(
@miguelangel-lb2ij
2 жыл бұрын
Sadder that he had to kill her
Stage 3: Jason enacts his second amendment right.
Dude wearing scrubs like he escaped from a asylum lol part 3 was the best
Oh man, I remember this from when I saw this video just now.
My first payment from a job (distribution of a pizza flyers) became credits for this game. 30 years back 😄
The epic horror game fully cameo a horror movie from 80's and sadly this one with a sad ending 😢
Хорошо что раньше игры и фильмы все добрые были.
imagine this as a movie. little to no story, but a horror/thriller action adventure film focused on horror movie monsters, their tropes and a LOT of gore and violence. Just focused on being a fun & gore-y film.
This aged well
Hey there! Can i use some footage of your playthrough in a lyric video of my band? You'll be credited, of course.
@davidherbella9411
2 жыл бұрын
Yes go for it
Best Arcade horror action game. ..and my halloween season playlist games. 😅
Love this game
These animations were super smooth
Nice game and nice video