A few hours into the journey and miles away from civilization, the weather took a drastic turn for the worse. This is a cool little arcade challenge that is ruined by the shoddy controls.It was a cold, blustery day when Rick and Jennifer set out on their holiday. The goal is to survive for two minutes as the screen grows more and more crowded. Splatter Rush offers three timed beatdowns against wave after wave of creatures. Had the controls worked better, the new Splatter Rush mode might have been the saving grace here. You can expand the window a little, but doing so makes the visuals fuzzy. The emulation runs in a tiny window, too, which is prone to hiccups. Ducking is a crap shoot and with so many enemies that slither or run low to the ground, failing to crouch half of the time is not acceptable. The virtual pad is 'mushy,' making it too easy for Rick to not do what you tell him to do – or worse, do nothing. But I cannot overlook the control problems that seriously hamper this port. If you have an appreciation for retro games, though, you can overlook the simplistic nature of Splatterhouse. I recently went back to Splatterhouse on my Turbo out of curiosity and had to confess to myself that it's a bit stiff.

He must stomp from left to right through several stages in hopes of shattering enough monster spines to win back his girlfriend. But Namco focuses solely on the arcade original here, which pits the masked anti-hero Rick against a house full of demons.

('A dude in a hockey mask beats down monsters with a two-by-four? Yes, please!') There was a handful of good Genesis sequels, too.

But before that, Splatterhouse was a shocking arcade game that later became a shocking TurboGrafx-16 game – that every little boy wanted. Chances are good a decent number of you know Splatterhouse from the upcoming sequel on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

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