Cast in the role of the hockey mask-wearing anti-hero, Rick, the player stalked the halls of the titular mansion, a haunted pile stuffed to the rafters with grotesque monsters and ghouls.Īrmed at first with nothing more than his fists and feet, Rick embarked on a revenge mission against the undead who’d both murdered him at the start of the game and then kidnapped his girlfriend, Jennifer. While games had been growing in graphical richness and violence for a while – Operation Wolfwas a gun-crazed money-spinner for Taito in 1986 – none were quite as gratuitous as Splatterhouse. If you’d stumbled on Splatterhouse in an arcade in the late ’80s, you would’ve immediately noted how different it looked from other video games of the era. Read more: The Evolution of ’80s Video Game Gore
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