Splatterhouse
The original Splatterhouse, not the PS3-era one (and on TG-16 not the arcade or wherever else it was available). It's a brutally hard platformer based entirely around memorization. Brutal is also the only way to describe the graphics, with zombies splattering into goo, severed hands, mirror-spawned clones, flesh eating worms, disembodied heads floating about...
Which is to say that it's fantastic. Even now, 20-something years later it's great to look at in its low-res, ugly graphics. There's more... appeal here than there is with the PS3-era remake (which of course has much better looking graphics from a purely technical perspective).
And like with Keith Courage, thanks to save states I finally made it past the level 5 boss to beat the game. Yay!
Which is to say that it's fantastic. Even now, 20-something years later it's great to look at in its low-res, ugly graphics. There's more... appeal here than there is with the PS3-era remake (which of course has much better looking graphics from a purely technical perspective).
And like with Keith Courage, thanks to save states I finally made it past the level 5 boss to beat the game. Yay!