Another childhood memory worth the waiting
User Rating: 8.5 | Splatterhouse TG16
Ever since I first laid eyes upon visuals from this game, I was utterly horrified and simultaneously intrigued. It was released in 1990, when I was 11. I was watching GamePro TV on Saturday morning, and they had a segment on Splatterhouse. Before seeing this, the most traumatizing video game moment I had seen involved a ninja turtle getting electrocuted (you could see his skeleton... *shivers*). GamePro gave strategies for the final boss. The image of that wretched looking demon gave me nightmares. No kidding, it seriously f***ed me up. I had to cover my eyes at the end of Indiana Jones until I got my driver's liscense, so graphic images were unbeknownst to me. To this day I have yet to see a Nightmare on Elm Street movie. (They were a staple of the '80s, but I haven't seen one... too traumatic). I know by today's standards Splatterhouse is cartoonish, but I'll be damned if I did not have to go to therapy for what I saw on that damned GamePro TV. While on the subject of traumatizing events from childhood... Remember the Dungeon's and Dragons animated series? There was an episode where a portal opened up beneath a sleeping child's bed, demons came out, and they abducted him. They KIDNAPPED him in his sleep!!! This is on a kids Saturday morning cartoon show!!! I was like 5 at the time and had severe cases of insomnia because of it-- can't go to sleep, demons are going to take me. In retrospect, I think that is the reason why I did not get a little brother until I was 7 years old. I eventually ended up getting Splatterhouse on E-Bay in 2005. This was multi-purposed, as: 1) the game is F'n cool and I wanted to own it for years, 2) it dispelled some of my childhood trauma, 3) I had a TurboGrafx, but did not have any games for it yet. 
