Fans of retro horror games, NES-era JRPGs, and lost media research all got a delightful surprise on Halloween when a fully playable build of Splatterworld leaked online. The existence of this RPG spinoff of Namco's Splatterhouse series was only recently made public, and the sudden appearance of the full game would be nearly unbelievable if it wasn't backed up by a playable ROM.
If you're not familiar with Splatterhouse, the original is a horror-themed beat-'em-up from Namco where you play as a Jason Voorhees lookalike named Rick, fighting off various gruesome monstrosities as you try to save your girlfriend. It was adapted for console release with a cutesy action-platformer called Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti, released for the Famicom in 1989.
