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Title: A "help me name that game" thread
Post by: Cynicaster on June 04, 2013, 01:07:10 pm

I think most threads of this type are from guys trying to remember a game they saw in the 80’s or 90’s, but this one is simply for a game I discovered last year while randomly going through obscure MAME games.  I enjoyed the game and wouldn’t mind playing it again but I can’t recall the name to save my life.  The kicker is, I even maintain a “log” of games I discover in this way to prevent this very thing from happening, but I must have been too lazy that day to write it down.   

Anyway, in a generic sense it was a side-scrolling beat-em-up, but rather than the trite “thugs on the street” theme, it was skinned in more of a “ghosts and goblins” aesthetic: zombie-like enemies, grave yards, that sort of thing.  I remember that when enemies died, rather than blinking and disappearing, they’d kind of dissolve into mush, which I found delightfully cheesy.  I don’t remember who made the game or what year it was released, but based on the general design and feel of the game, I’m going to go out on a limb and assume it was early 90’s, corresponding to the days of Final Fight up through, say, Violent Storm, where all kinds of these “me too” games were made. 

Anybody?
Title: Re: A "help me name that game" thread
Post by: Nephasth on June 04, 2013, 01:40:46 pm
Night Slashers?

Night Slashers Arcade - 3 players Playthrough (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvCp7xYFQIA#ws)
Title: Re: A "help me name that game" thread
Post by: Nephasth on June 04, 2013, 01:43:08 pm
Splatterhouse?

Splatterhouse (Arcade) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnpKol4eFqk#)
Title: Re: A "help me name that game" thread
Post by: Cynicaster on June 05, 2013, 04:32:53 pm
Night Slashers?

Night Slashers Arcade - 3 players Playthrough (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvCp7xYFQIA#ws)

Bingo--thanks dude.