Splatterhouse/Stage I

Welcome to the game. Once Rick has appeared on the screen, start walking to the right and punch the two Red Zombies walking towards you to kill them before crouching down in order to pick up the Cleaver. Once you have done so, six more Red Zombies will come walking towards you; you can either decapitate them or crouch down and kick them to kill them before continuing to the right and coming to a small platform. Once you have jumped over the platform, a Tortured Corpse in the background will spit out a puddle of vomit onto the ground; you can either jump over it or wait until it has evaporated before two more Red Zombies approach you from the front and a tenth one approaches you from behind. Once you have killed them all, another Tortured Corpse in the background will spit out a puddle of vomit onto the ground; once again, you can either jump over it or wait until it has evaporated before an eleventh Red Zombie comes walking towards you. Once you have killed it, continue walking to the right until you come to three giant spikes emerging from the ground; you should wait until they have receded back into the ground before walking over them and decapitating the three Bats that are flying towards you. Three more giant spikes will be emerging from the ground at this point; once again, you should wait until they have receded back into the ground before walking over them and decapitating three more Bats that are flying towards you. If you want to, you can now crouch down in order to pick up the Stick as three more Red Zombies come walking towards you; but if you would prefer to continue using the Cleaver at this point, you do not have to. Once you have killed all the Red Zombies by decapitating them, smashing them against the wall or just crouching down and kicking them, you will have to jump over another small platform as two more Red Zombies approach you from the front and an eighteenth one approaches you from behind. Once you have killed them all, continue walking to the right as a Big Headed Zombie approaches you from the front and another one approaches you from behind; these zombies will continue to attack Rick after their bodies have been destroyed by decapitation, smashing against the wall or kicking, as their heads will fly after him until they are either hit or fly into the ceiling. Once you have killed them both, Rick will drop whatever weapon he was holding and climb up the ladder to the boss room.

The boss room is filled with rotting meat, and has a Hanging Corpse sticking out of a hole in the ceiling on the left side. Twenty Bore Worms will crawl up the meat piles and hurl themselves across the room at Rick; walking all the way to the right side of the room, crouching down and kicking out repeatedly will kill most of them, but a few will hurl themselves across the room at punching level, so you should be prepared to push the joystick back up. Once you have killed them all, a twenty-first one will burst out of the Hanging Corpse (killing it as it is doing so) and hurl itself across the room at Rick; once he has killed it, he will proceed to the second stage.