I'm sorry, but you missed one of the goriest and most gruesome games of all time - Splatterhouse 2 for the Sega Genesis.

I bet that game must have come out 15 years ago, but my best friend and I still talk about it. In one of the boss fights, mutated babies hung from nooses drop from the ceiling and vomit at you. You have to dodge the vomit and attack them with the chainsaw, so blood and vomit are flying everywhere on the screen.

After all 5 or 6 of the mutant babies are gone, a fountain of blood that was part of the background comes forward and starts bubbling blood everywhere, like something is trying to break through. You turn your chainsaw onto the fountain, even more blood is shooting out now than ever before. You character (Rick, who is wearing the possessed hockey mask) is screaming, and finally the fountain explodes.

But to end the scene, splats of blood look like they hit the inside of the TV screen and start dripping down in until the entires screen is red. Then you cut to the next screen.

That, ladies and gentlemen, even in terrible 16 bit graphics, belongs on any list of the most gruesome video game scenes of all time.

PS, I found you a screenshot of the mutated babies scene: http://splatterhouse.classicgaming.gamespy.com/splat2pic4.gif\

Jamie
Posted at 11:40PM on Nov 5th 2008 by Jamie