Splatterhouse 2

Splatterhouse 2 - oil paint on Canson Graduate paper. Sit down, because here comes a story. This Mega Drive game was crucial to me in the early 90s. At that time, I, a 10-year-old boy, didn't have this console, just a lesser one, so I sold popsicles on the street to earn some money and spend it at the local video stores. It was during one of those games that I came across that beautiful cover of Splatterhouse 3, which many years later, with the advent of the internet, I discovered was made by the incredible artist Julie Bell. Yes! When I saw that cover, I immediately asked what game it was and that I would play it immediately, and the game did not disappoint me. A great game, just like the cover. My first contact was with part 3, so why did I paint over part 2, which I only played a few years later on a Mega Drive loaned to me by an old friend? Simply because before all this, even before I got to know video games, I got a school pencil case from the brand "Slood" (a popular brand here in Brazil in the 80s and early 90s). It turns out that this pencil case had the cover art of Splatterhouse Part 2 in the American version (of which unfortunately I didn't find out the name of the artist who did it to give due credit), with a "slightly" modified lettering to read "Sloodhouse". hehehehe! Anyway, I've already gone on for a long time, but I just wanted to share a little bit of this story that influenced me to do this work today. I hope you enjoy it.