Lost Splatterhouse RPG Found After 30 Years! | Splatter World
After 30 years, the lost Splatterhouse RPG-Splatter World has finally surfaced — on 4chan, of all places — and it’s every bit as bizarre and fascinating as you’d hope. In this video, Retro Nick dives into Splatter World, the canceled Splatterhouse RPG originally planned for release in 1993, which aimed to turn Namco’s cult horror brawler into a full-blown role-playing game.
We’ll explore the game’s history, examine the original clues to its existence — including the Namco Museum of Art video and Orochi’s promotional tape — and take a look at the newly discovered ROM to see what could’ve been if Splatter World had seen the light of day. Was it truly a lost treasure… or was it better left buried?
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*Timestamps:*
0:00 - Show Intro
0:12 - Splatter World ROM discovered
0:23 - The initial discovery of Splatter World
1:00 - Orochi's promo tape
2:09 - Crickets
2:20 - The Rom surfaces on 4chan
2:44 - First impressions of Splatter World
3:05 - The story
3:15 - Characters
3:27 - Neat features
3:49 - I'm turning Japanese
4:19 - The ROM is complete?!
4:44 - Un-answered questions
5:05 - Speculation: Why was it canceled?
5:51 - What's next for Splatter World?
6:59 - RNR Mailbag
8:11 - Plugs and Ending
Link to the current 4chan translation list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Link to the original 4chan post: https://boards.4chan.org/vr/thread/12...
The West Mansion: https://splatterhouse.kontek.net/fami...
Retro Games News Site: Famicom Stuff: https://famicoms-net.translate.goog/b...
Sources.
Splatter World gameplay captured through a backed-up ROM of the game played through the FCEUmm core on Retro Arch using a Retro-Bit Sega Saturn game pad and recorded via OBS Studio. Splatter World is owned by Namco, and all footage is presented here under fair use.
RNR Theme:
Powerup!
Jeremy Blake
Red Means Recording - YouTube
RNR Interlude:
Itty Bitty 8 Bit by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Gameplay segments from other games and media included in the video are listed with their respective owners below.
It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia: FX Networks
Namco Museum of Art Episode 006 - Splatterhouse: Namco Bandai
Super Famitsa 2: Namco
Super Wagyan Land 2: Namco
The SImpsons: Twentieth Century Fox and the Walt Disney Company
Family Guy: Twentieth Century Fox and the Walt Disney Company
Music from Splatterhouse 2 and 3: Namco
Orgazmo: October Films
Tapper: Bally Midway
Waluigi: Ninrendo
Moustaches: Webbl's Stuff
Space Fantasy Zone: Sega & Hudson Soft
Half Live: Valve
Spider-Man: Columbia Pictures
Under a Killing Moon: Big Finish Games
The Angry Video Game Nerd 8-Bit: Retroware and Cinemassacre
The Muppet Show: Jim Henson Television & Walt Disney Television
Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law: Cartoon Network
The Sopranos: HBO Television
Image Fight II: Irem