30-year-old Chicago woman sets Splatterhouse score record

[MrFulci]

She set the record on the arcade version, but, in the article, it mentioned she got a TG-16 years ago when she was younger. Her dad bought it for her. One of the early games she had for it - Splatterhouse.

wayback.examiner.com/splatterhouse-chicago-woman-sets-new-arcade-game-world-record

October 21, 2013
The cult classic beat-em-up Splatterhouse has a new world record champion.

Caitlin Oliver, a 30-year-old Chicago native, achieved the new record score of 493,700 points on Saturday, October 19 while playing live at Windy City destination Galloping Ghost Arcade. Oliver's new mark, which was set during a live internet broadcast, shatters the previous record mark of 373,100 points set last year at the same location by Anthony Paparo, according to the Aurcade high score database. The score has been submitted to longtime world record adjudicators Twin Galaxies for complete verification.

Caitlin's new world record mark makes her the first woman in almost 30 years to set a world record on a video arcade game. It also marks the latest chapter in a longtime history with the Namco classic.

"I first got my hands on Splatterhouse as a young girl," she recalled. "My father picked up a TurboGrafx-16 for me one lucky Christmas and he was always good about letting me pick out a game to rent for the weekend at the local video rental stores. Once I got it home I was totally hooked. Gross monsters, corpses, skeletons; it had it all."

[chany60126]

Many of us were able to witness her set the record at Octurbofest as the event took place at that same arcade. https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?topic=15176.120

[MrFulci]

Ah, I haven't been posting here lately, and hadn't visited that thread much. I only just now heard about it, since I saw the examiner link.

If anything, it shows that the news is getting around, and outside of video game related news sites!

[Tatsujin]

Ah, that was that woman doing in some later stages. And i was already wondering

[roflmao]

Sadly, it appears her record has already been broken:
facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10201598567038055

Here's the image for folks without FB:

Anthony Paparo High Score 2013

It looks like she and the current champion will be having a face off at the Galloping Ghost on 10/28 (thanks to chany for the info).

[esteban]

Face-off between Splatterhouse champions. Awesome.

[Tatsujin]

One must record this on video. ONE MUST!!

[SuperDeadite]

Meh, playing Splatterhouse for score is pretty dumb.  As you have just keep killing yourself over and over again on the embryo stage.  As at the hear enemies keep spawning forever.  Splatterhouse is not a game one plays for score, you get the 1 life clear, and you be done.

[Opethian]

sounds like King of Kong 3... will Billy fucking Mitchell show up ? lol

[SuperDeadite]

There's a thread about this over on shmups, apparently the real Japanese record is more then double what she got.  Why do people still give a shit about TwinGalaxies?  They are such a worthless group.

[spenoza]

There's a thread about this over on shmups, apparently the real Japanese record is more then double what she got.  Why do people still give a shit about TwinGalaxies?  They are such a worthless group.

Well, someone's got to authenticate the scores. I don't see another group stepping in to do it. Why not TwinGalaxies? I know they have some problems (I watched King of Kong), but that doesn't mean they're doomed to irrelevance.

[420GOAT]

WAS THAT SCORE WHILE THEY WERE THERE, IF NOT IT DOESNT COUNT.

[Arkhan Asylum]

ID LIKE TO SPLATTER HER HOUSE


HURRRRRRRRRR

lol.

[Xak]

^I APPROVE THIS COMMENT WITH FLYING COLORS

[Arkhan Asylum]

SPLAT HER HOUSE.

Time to make a hentai knockoff.

[Damon Plus]

SPLAT HER HOUSE.

Time to make a hentai knockoff.

And this time, you can use all the tentacles you want because they are integrated into the story!

[glazball]

She's cute AND loves Splatterhouse?? Damn that's hot.

[Xak]

I couldnt believe it myself. My style of chic too