Splatterhouse

by NEC

Product Features

• splatterhouse
• turbo grafx 16
• hub card

Product Details

• ASIN: B000FN78M0
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,747 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

turbo grafx 16 splatterhouse

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Play it in the arcade, May 19, 2006

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Inspector Gadget "Go Go Gadget Reviews" (On the trail of Doctor Claw) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Splatterhouse (Video Game)

Remember the movie Re-Animator, based on the short stories by HP Lovecraft? Remember the crazy Doctor Herbert West, played so wildly by Jeffrey Combs? Well it seems that Doctor West has been dabbling some more into bad science and has created an army of freaks and monsters. He's long since vanished but the monsters still live in his mansion. You play a college nerd called Rick Taylor who has to rescue his girl (a popular feature in beat-em-up games at the time) from this house of madness. Rick is aided in his mission by a special Aztec sacrificial mask which gives him superhuman strength and powers to go zombie-bashing.

Splatterhouse is a very hard game to across. Either you play the arcade machine (now very, very hard to find) or you buy a Turbo-Grafx PC Engine and get the home-console version, which is so horribly censored that it even deletes the cut-scenes. Thus making the game completely storyless.

Still, it's a cool-looking game and one can really tell where a lot of Resident Evil's influences came from. At one point in the game, the character of Rick walks through a giant vagina and battles evil foetuses. As a side-scrolling beat-em-up it's pretty weak. There's no real impact to the fighting and the controls feel somewhat sluggish.

Seriously, the Arcade is the only place to go if you want to have a go at Splatterhouse. The Turbo-Grafx version neuters the game to the point of no-fun-ism.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A bloody good time., September 7, 2009

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Chundo C. Baskonovitch "Bolo" (USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Splatterhouse (Video Game)

Who cares about censorship? This game has all the arcade action down. I don't care about the story line, it's VERY bad anyway. Some college kids wander into a house, the girl gets kidnapped by demons. . . yadda, yadda, yadda . . .

In the TG16 version, you STILL smash hordes of monsters. There is STILL violence and gore. Not to mention, the game play is intact from the arcade. Which is more than can be said for the sequels on the Genesis, which to me, look and play like garbage.

This game is addictive and fun. That's what counts. Sure, the PC Engine (Japanese) version has some of the arcade gore (and Rick wears the correct color mask). First of all, that version costs more. Secondly, you need to either own a PC Engine or get an expensive converter in order to play it.

The Turbo Version is still great as it features the same great gameplay, multiple paths, some challenging bits, not to mention some of the least terrible box art for the system (It doesn't take much). Well worth your time if you're into action games or the Turbo Grafx 16. This was one of the Turbo's few system sellers back then and to me, it is one of the top five action games on the console.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get the Japanese version, June 11, 2009

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matt (Oklahoma City) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Splatterhouse (Video Game)

The US version is heavily censored. Japanese version is not censored at all. you'll need a pc engine system or a hucard converter to play it though.