{"id":599,"date":"2009-10-26T11:23:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T16:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=599"},"modified":"2013-10-31T08:03:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T13:03:32","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-splatterhouse-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/599\/retro-scan-of-the-week-splatterhouse-3","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Splatterhouse 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/splatterhouse3_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/splatterhouse3_small.jpg\" alt=\"Sega Genesis - Splatterhouse 3 Ad - 1993\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;The kind of game rating systems were invented for.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Splatterhouse 3<\/em> is by far my favorite entry in the <em>Splatterhouse<\/em> series.  The other two just don&#8217;t cut it for some reason.  I prefer <em>Splatterhouse 3&#8217;s<\/em> room-based approach to the game, and its controls are pretty good.  It incorporates an on-screen map too, which makes it feel more like an adventure game.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Halloween, by the way!<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, November 1993 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong>  What&#8217;s the goriest video game you&#8217;ve ever played?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The kind of game rating systems were invented for.&#8221; Splatterhouse 3 is by far my favorite entry in the Splatterhouse series. The other two just don&#8217;t cut it for some reason. I prefer Splatterhouse 3&#8217;s room-based approach to the game, and its controls are pretty good. It incorporates an on-screen map too, which makes it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,26,9],"tags":[97,150,295,523,255,60,198,634,635],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-97","tag-advertisement","tag-egm","tag-genesis","tag-halloween","tag-retro-scan","tag-sega","tag-splatterhouse","tag-splatterhouse-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}