Friday the 13th is one of the biggest horror franchises of all time and Jason Voorhese
one of the most iconic movie villains ever.
Building off the popularity of Halloween, Friday the 13th grabbed the concept of a faceless,
invincible killer stalking and murdering horny teenagers
and they ran with that way past the point of running out of ideas
The first film in 1980 actually centered on Jason's mother getting revenge on the counselors
at Camp Crystal Lake for her son's death years earlier.
Jason didn't even really show up until the sequel and he didn't get his iconic hockey
mask until the third movie.
In the Final Chapter, Jason dies after going on another killing spree and that's the end, right?
The Final Chapter is surely the last movie.
But no, the series' popularity wouldn't allow Paramount not to make another sequel.
The next movie is about a copycat killer, then Jason gets resurrected and is no longer
bound by mortality or good movie plots.
He then goes on to battle a psychic teenager, goes to the city, gets rekilled by the FBI,
gains the ability to possess people, goes to Hell, THEN goes to space,
Then he fight's Freddy Krueger.
Then it got a reboot a few years later.
Now that you know the general history of Firday the 13th, let's get into the actual game
review.
This game was released in 1989 and was supposed to coincide with the plot of The New Blood,
which released a year earlier.
Jason Takes Manhattan was still a couple months away, so I guess it made sense at the time.
Looking at the box art, we have a very washed out image of Jason that looks like it was
cut out of one of the movies, surrounded by uh, well just just look at it.
Is this Friday the 13th or Jason and the Technicolor dreamcoat?
One of the most prominent things on the box is this Seal of Bad Quality, which is the
LJN logo.
Now, I know LJN was just a publisher, so let's see who actually developed the game.
Atlus!?
Atlus made this game?
And they made it after the first Megami Tensei?
Maybe it won't be so bad.
Holy shit!
The knife went right into his eye!
So far, this is pretty hardcore for an NES game.
Ok, multiple characters.
Light the fireplaces?
Was that a thing in the movies?
Were these werewolf zombie things in the movies?
What the Hell is going on here?
Ok, so the premise here is that you have to go around lighting these fireplaces.
When this God-awful beeping starts, it means Jason is killing a child, so you have to make
your way to the highlighted cabin and fight Jason Punch-Out style, but he's harder to
beat than Mike Tyson!
I can't even avoid his punches!
Also, why is Jason punching?
Shouldn't he have a machete or something?
You and your friends are dead.
How did this get approved by Nintendo?
I just imagine an LJN employee in a rainbow colored suit showing up at some kid's house
like "You and your friends are dead!
You hear me?
DEAD!"
Anyway, you can find notes that give you hints and some of these can lead to hidden weapons.
There are several weapons you can pick up, which is good because the default rock is
fucking terrible.
Rather than sticking to the cabins, Jason will sometimes attack you out in the open.
These encounters are much easier than the ones in the cabins.
Once you beat him, he runs away and comes back stronger.
Once you've got the fireplaces lit, you can go into the cave and fight, uh Mrs. Voorhees's
severed head.
What is it with the severed heads?
It seems like every game I play in this series has at least one head flying around or being
in a place it shouldn't be.
When you beat her, you'll get this potato peeler, a sweater, and a pitchfork.
Now the game is all about finding Jason, who keeps getting faster and more aggressive the
more you fight him.
Just keep killing him until he's dead.
You have finally managed to defeat Jason.
But is he really dead?
We're not telling.
What kind of ending is that?
Hey, you did it!
Or did you?
This game is a fucking mess.
You have to light the fireplaces, but how are you expected to do that when Jason attacks
a kid every few seconds?
And of course, there's no real way to tell which fireplaces have already been lit besides
walking in them or making your own map.
BUT!
Despite all of that, I don't think this game deserves as much hate as it gets.
Yes, it just drops you in with no direction besides "Light the fireplaces", but I
feel like what they were trying to do was just not executed well.
You have your mission to light the fireplaces and rescue the kids from Jason.
Once you beat him enough times, you win.
That's the basics of it.
The notes you find in cabins lead you to the cave, which gives you better weapons and sweater
armor.
Yes, if you just popped the game in and started to play, you'd be completely fucking lost,
but that's what instruction manuals were for.
Friday the 13th is usually only remembered as one of the worst games for the NES, but
at least this blue Jason sprite was referenced by IllFonic in their buggy mess of a Friday
the 13th game.
Thanks for watching, everyone.
Do you think Friday the 13th is as bad as everyone says?
Let me know in the comments and leave a suggestion for the next game.
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