Splatterhouse Longplay (Arcade) [60 FPS]
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- 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!
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The reason why they changed the mask to red because they are afraid people would think it's Jason and they might get sued
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You should consider enabling scan lines on your emulator. It will give a more accurate representation of the graphics on the original hardware.
@@econ0003 Yeah, but it'll stress people's eyes. I doubt it would look good using scan lines especially from high quality videos on RUclips.
5:24 - You do have to admire the cast-iron balls of someone who will happily punch a knife.
I mean he is undead.
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.
game anti - MGTOW !!!.
Was good but hard so took in a lot of coins lol
Yes very good but very hard.
Wait till you hear the music from Splatterhouse 2.
@@luffyomnissj741 Based.
I remember the first time when i watch this arcade:
"What? Jason becomes a protector? cool!"
What happy days...
@When you read the comments I will be there . 100% agree =)
I remember having the horrendous pirate port of the PC engine version for the Sega genesis, a great horror cult game from namcot
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.
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.
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.
I couldent beat the chainsaw dude lowkey lol
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.
Creativity was limited by technology, now technology limits creativity, we call that evolution 😋
@@pleilleur you misspelled devolution. It made us dumber. A lack of imagination breeds a dumber brain.
@@pleilleur You literally said the exact same thing twice.
@@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.
But now risk of Controversy and for profit over playibility the companies these days there's barely any game that compares to doom
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
I just wish it had an arcade release and wasn't confined to the Genesis.
Carnevil is the greatest horror arcade game.
@@holden6104 althoug Genesis had a decent version
@@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.
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.
The view down the hall you get before each stage is straight class.
14:50 Holy shit
aestheticstorm yeah, the game was pretty dark for the time 😁
Just her period
That's super creepy 😮😦😱
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.
This game looks easier than Contra
Why character look like jason voorhes
The quality of the art style is insane for 1988. It looks better than a lot of snes titles released 4-5 years later.
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.
You know dude I still prefer the SNES quality titles more often and better than this one's quality titles but I still like other arcade games from 1990's better than this one.
Im just admiring Jason punched the sh*t outta these demons
Personally, I love this game, the music is appropriately scary.
never arrived at stage VII on the cabinet, thank you for showing me the end after so many years!
I'm glad that this is going to be on the new Namco Museum.
And I'm glad that Namco Museum on the Switch ISN'T rated M for Mature because of this game.
@@michalander2131 it doesn't have immature languages, sexual, and more gore... Only little bit, and some scary images
We finally have an uncensored home port after all these years.
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.
0:07 Week 2
Jason in Evil Dead location.. WTF
@@andrevital24805 fnf fan! I repeat! fnf fan! take cover!
@@andrevital24805 please never speak another word for as long as you live
@@andrevital24805 Go to sleep, now.
Kinda sadge that the girlfriend dies. :(
Sadder that he had to kill her
She comes back in 2, I think, or maybe it was 3
Now i know why jason is so strong
Old games have something the modern ones miss..
Is the aesthetic and how unique they were.
charm?
A soul
nostalgia
Arcade
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.
The music is so freaking awesome!
Yep - it surprised me just how good it is!
Al82: Retrogaming & Computing You mean for 1988? Damn right it's surprising...
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Jason in Evil Dead location.. WTF..
In this game Jason is actually the good guy.
Terror Mask: Rip and tear until it is done!
Stage 3: Jason enacts his second amendment right.
This scared the hell out of us in 89
Lol 🤣 sure it did
In a sense a proto survival horror game limited items and weapons slow movement strong enemies tough bosses sound familiar people?
20:46
Oops, I just knocked over my box of cereal. :(
The final boss of this game must be the inspiration for Attack on Titan.
So it's basically Jason Voorhees knocking off ghould head. Nice!!!!!
Hey there!
Can i use some footage of your playthrough in a lyric video of my band?
You'll be credited, of course.
Yes go for it
I played this on the cabinet somewhere in the half part of 90's. What a good fun.
Difficult game. A definite quarter muncher in it's day.
Oh god the most powerful enemy ever *jumping chair*
this shit seems way more fun than the average modern video game
"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.
Is the same way she laughs 🤣🤣🤣
This game made me seek mental health services as a kid.
this looks scary for a inocent kid of 90s
12:50 I'm groovin'!
Thanks, I'm never going to unhear that.
Jason welding a Maverick 88. Pure nightmare
Damn, I cant believe how good TG-16 got it right.
So his lover is dead?
Technically no, Jennifer isn't dead - Namco brought her back for the sequel. Her spirit is trapped and you get to rescue her.
I wasn't familiar with this game, and now I feel bad for his girl...😮💨
15:34 one minute of silence 😞
if someone told me this inspired doom I would nod in agreement. This is amazing for 1988.
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.
15:45 TOP 10 SAD MOMENTS IN ANIME.
That first boss stage reminded me of the horror movie slither
this game is a certified hood classic
Jason being overpowered be like:
Jason a monster fighting and killing other monsters that’s cool 😎
8:39 this is music done right, you know it's going to happen but it's still done perfectly
the grafic, the gore, oof that why i love this game
I thought you were going to write the traditional "ASS" in the high score
Jason Vorhees a hero? Who knew?! Night of the living dead meets Jason, meets Alien
Lol, I love how he just punches and kicks the shit out of everything
Ikr lol
Design of monsters, locations and that low bitrate sounds - masterpiece.
The soundtrack invoked a feeling of "you're fucked'
7:09-7:25. Best part
10:45 Perhaps I should try bringing an axe to church and see how well that goes over.
nothing better than blasting demons with your own fists!
He look like jason
Best Arcade horror action game.
..and my halloween season
playlist games. 😅
Imagine a souls like game with this stylistics
9:31 fog door into boss battle souls like confirmed
Blasphemous? ._.
@@izanagi3366 Nah, they're just both 2D, but I meant a souls like that looks like a typical slasher horror movie
@@onutrof1157 ah okay got it, can't imagine how that would work but I would be down for it
Jason the kill
As a kid this was one of the hardest arcade games I can remember playing
I'm surprised this wasn't made into a horror movie.
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)
They'd ruin it as they almost always do
really neat hearing the music samples used in South Mansion.
Back when games weren't afraid of using real looking blood to scare of more potential customers like the god of war and doom eternal
Are you saying doom eternal Isn't gory
@@spicymeatballs2thespiceningoh so gory seeing marinda spew out of living creatures that need iron blood to live
A masterpiece!
wow you did a good job at playing this game.
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 hitting homeruns
12:50 I'M-A GROOOOVIN!
14:09
"aight we messed his girlfriend real bad, now let's go AND SCREW YOU RICK!'
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!!!!!
That audio is amazing.
I recall playing a good old internet flash game based on this classic. And yes, the flash game starred the green-haired girl with some silly frog hat.
Splatterhouse just seems so f’ed up compared to other horror games. I mean, just look at the first level at 1:20. There are unfortunate victims in the background and there’s nothing you can do to save them. And it only gets worse from there.
3:00 my favorite stage
У меня аж сердце прихватило как я увидел это. Та самая потерянная игра детства.
Сэга?
@@alexkimm1148 кнопочные телефоны
@@polypusscriptorem1781 Splatterhouse Java
Does this game has any connection with the Friday 13 movies?
No
Back in the days I have managed to beat it ,along with Eco the Dolphin....and Super Ghouls and Ghosts...
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
Imagine playing this game on computer then it just said insert coin
Jason X The ghost killer
I never could watch this game cause i was so scared of it as a kid
Man this brings back memories of the first time I saw this game, not in the arcade but on the TurboGrafix 16.
This game actually looks pretty awesome
You make this look really easy. Never actually played any of the splatter house.
Playing during midnight is not recommended
I played this on some phone years ago in middle school, isolated and alone in a really spooky rural Wisconsin farm house. I’ve played way “scarier” games since then but this has a really long-lasting shock factor.
Wow the level with the flying guts looks like a cannibal corpse album
I remember having this on the Turbo Graffix as a kid and being legit freaked out 😆 the good old days
Grafx*
Dang, you had a Turbo Graffix 16, you must’ve been the kid in school who’s parents had money!🤣😂👍👍👍
Cannibal Corpse game style
Ha I thought it was Jason Voorhees
Nice game and nice video
A real 1988 death metal video game masterpiece hahaha. The music is really scary,the ideas very sick,just awesome.
I keep thinking that some designs on resident evil series are based or influenced on this game art.
15:40 what a tragedy so sad
Someone's been messing with Genetic Engineering again - ever wish you'd just put up with the rain and not gone into that goddamn house in the first place - another depressing
scenario where the heroine doesn't survive to be rescued, I'd had enough of that from Double Dragon II about the same time;
Floating-Witch-Hat's resurrection incantation was never fully uttered in this walkthrough either - I came here for the 'HAH!!!' at the end, and was again disappointed; #TooWellPlayed!
RIGHT - on to Splatterhouse II then!...
I think it's more occult than science