Gore ruled gaming well before Mortal Kombat came on the scene. Sure, we’ve all played classics like Namco’s Splatterhouse series, but none were more obscene than competitor Tengen’s answer, Splatter Train. The first in the series shocked many with over the top cutscenes that transitioned into a non-stop 2D bloodbath. Parents shrieked as the titular train took their gleeful children from level to level, from Satan’s Pit to the stage in question, the infamous Demon Foundry.
A horrid swirl of metalworks and rust-blasted gore-fighting, by the time protagonist Henry Harrison was done with the foundry, he was literally oozing with the blood of his enemies. It all culminates in a boss that vomits so much bile that the slowdown becomes nearly unbearable. The 8-bit metal soundtrack drove everything home in a brutally unconventional way, eschewing standard loops for bizarre solos and powerful digital drumming.
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