After consuming some caffeine and attending to a hot news story, we have received word from the Scorpion Engine creator, Earok, that Monster Bath Games Inc has released an early demo of the upcoming game ‘Mega Splatterhouse’ for the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive. This game is an epic and gory side-scrolling slasher known as ‘Splatterhouse’ to many. According to the creator, “This is a fan port of Splatterhouse I’ve been working on to learn the ropes of Sega Megadrive/Genesis development”.
If you’re unfamiliar with the original arcade version or other iterations of Splatterhouse, here’s a brief description from the wikipedia page: “Splatterhouse is an arcade-style sidescrolling beat ’em up with platform elements in which the player controls Rick, a parapsychology college major who is trapped inside West Mansion. After his resurrection by the Terror Mask, Rick makes his way through the mansion, fighting off hordes of creatures in a vain attempt to save his girlfriend Jennifer from a grisly fate.”
Notes from the Developer:
- This is a fan port of Splatterhouse I’ve been working on to learn the ropes of Sega Megadrive/Genesis development.
- This game will be made free to play on release. For now please enjoy the demo.
- Please note that this is a ***WORK IN PROGRESS*** and that what is in this demo is not necessarily the final versions of art, color, sound or music. There may be bugs as well. They will be fixed. There is tuning to be done – it will be done.
- ***We will not be adding red blood to the game, we will not be adding the cutting room floor sprites/objects/enemies that were not in the final game. We will make adjustments to some things to make it look better with the genesis color palette and will do a few things to show off the genesis abilities over the original game (parallax scrolling etc). ***
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