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It took 7th place for Best Action Game in the 3rd Gamest Grand Prix (1989) run in the magazine Gamest (Shinseisha), as well as 3rd for Best Presentation, 4th for Best Graphics, 7th for Best VGM and 26th among the year's hit games, and for Best Character the hero Rick took 7th place and Jennifer 10th.
It also took 39th place in the Gamest Mook The Best Game, based on a popularity vote among Gamest readers in 1991 covering every arcade game released up to then.
It scored a total of 26 points in the Cross Review in the magazine Famicom Tsushin; an average of 85 in Gekkan PC Engine from 85, 80, 85, 90 and 85; a total of 34 out of 40 in Marukatsu PC Engine from 9, 8, 9 and 8; and, in the "Game Report Card" reader poll in PC Engine FAN, 23.97 out of 30, as set out below.
This score also placed it 42nd among all PC Engine titles (485 titles in total, as of 1993).
It was the first in a series of games released in home console and personal computer formats.
The FM Towns Marty version was ported by Ving Co. and released only in Japan in 1992 and it is a pixel-perfect rendition of the original arcade, with no substantial changes apart from a new menu interface in the title screen.
The game did receive some criticism for its lack of variety and simplistic nature, but it was otherwise praised for being challenging.
In particular, Provo criticized the fact that the Virtual Console version was the censored console version, noting how he missed the meat cleavers and extra violence of the arcade game.
It is a remarkably complete port, reproducing even small arcade behaviours and bugs, and until the Windows version described below it was as near perfect as the ports came.
It was first due for release in 2009 and was being developed by the overseas studio BottleRocket Entertainment, but in 2009-2 an in-house team at Bandai Namco Games took over.
Following its European release at the ATEI show in January 1989, Computer and Video Games gave the arcade version a positive review.
He stated that "Putting aside the aesthetic design and just looking at the game on the merits of its mechanics, Splatterhouse is lacking.
In particular, Provo criticized the fact that the Virtual Console version was the censored console version, noting how he missed the meat cleavers and extra violence of the arcade game.
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