Splatterhouse

Side-scrolling beat 'em up where you play Rick, a student brought back by a possessed mask to fight through West Mansion and save his girlfriend from monsters. Combat centers on punches, kicks, and a sliding drop kick, plus weapons you pick up room by room. Levels run left-to-right with occasional auto-scrolling sections and split paths that change your route. Boss fights mix up the formula with unique win conditions beyond just depleting health bars. When you die, you restart from checkpoints rather than losing continues outright—the focus is learning enemy patterns and using your toolkit smartly. The Terror Mask setup and creature design lean hard into horror imagery. Short arcade sessions built around memorization and execution.