However, saving her would prove to be no easy feat, as Rick fought to overcome hordes of hideous monstrosities and unthinkable mutants to do so. Yes, Rick's lover Jennifer finds herself lost within a mansion where diabolical experiments take place at the hands of the wicked Dr. The plot here is as simple as any late '80s video game and can be boiled down to a single sentence your girlfriend is in grave danger and you must save her. Instead, it was an entity known as the 'Terror Mask,' which granted him superhuman strength allowing him to take on all manner of disgusting monsters as he traveled through a vile house of horrors. However, unlike Voorhees, Rick's mask wasn't a traditional hockey mask. In Splatterhouse, you played as Rick Taylor, a man that bore a striking resemblance to Jason Voorhees' now iconic look from Friday the 13th: Part 3 which was released in theaters six years earlier. While the blood-soaked NARC may have provided a gritty experience as players took drug dealers off the seedy streets by any means necessary, and Leisure Suit Larry was up to no good in local bars, Splatterhouse supplied an entirely different style of R-rated gaming.

Originally released in the arcades in 1988, Splatterhouse was like no other game at the time. ' Splatterhouse supplied an entirely different style of R-rated gaming.'

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