Monster Bash

aka: Graveyard, Monster Bash! Starring Johnny Dash
Moby ID: 1008
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The evil Count Chuck has kidnapped all the world's animals in order to turn them into soldiers in his dark army. Johnny Dash's dog, Tex, has been captured along with the other animals, and it's up to him to enter the Night World and save him!

You use a slingshot to combat the ghastly enemies, which include skeletons, zombies, and severed hands. You can collect power-ups to increase your slingshot's power (only for a limited number of shots, however), candy for bonus points, hearts for health, and Johnny-shaped voodoo dolls for extra lives.

On each level, you must find all the animals in cages and shoot the lock on their cages, freeing them. Only then will the exit to the next level open. At the end of each of the three episodes, a boss awaits.

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Average score: 64% (based on 3 ratings)

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Average score: 3.8 out of 5 (based on 30 ratings with 6 reviews)

Cool game. Damn right.

The Good
This is a cool platform game by the platform masters - Apogee. Monster Bash is way cool indeed, featuring great music, good sound effects, great controls and reasonable graphics, along with some seriously time-consuming levels.

The Bad
Monster Bash features somewhat basic graphics, and the game is quite repetitive. But it's a platform game, so if you like the genre that's not a problem.

The Bottom Line
A really cool platform game. Get it, play it, love it.

DOS · by Tomer Gabel (4539) · 2000

I like it.

The Good
I love platform games. It has nice graphics and sound.

The Bad
There are so many bad guys. I can't get past the second level.

The Bottom Line
A good game if you like platformers, if not look for something else.

DOS · by Attila (553) · 2001

Hidden Gem

The Good
For me this is the best platform game of the DOS era, but as an EGA shareware title released in 1993 (the same year as Doom) it didn't exactly set the world on fire. I picked up a demo disk at a computer fair in the early 90s and eventually purchased the complete game by mail order. It has a wonderful Hammer Horror and Universal Monsters style theme to it, with a little bit of Splatter House gore.

The Bad
Dos Box has horrible screen tearing.

This game deserved VGA graphics considering the quality of the gameplay.

The Bottom Line
A lost gem from a forgotten era. Apogee games were played by PC owners in the late 80s to early 90s, before PC gaming went mainstream upon the release of Doom. It's challenging. One of the last games I remember having a 'PC Speaker' sound option.

DOS · by Christopher Elmy (2) · 2014

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Trivia

Monster Bash "Lite" 2.1 was released on July 27th 1993. This was simply a 3 level shareware (As opposed to the regular 10) episode released due to the thought at the time that a 1 meg zip file was too large for people to download. :) This version was since removed from distribution.

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Game added by Derrick 'Knight' Steele.

Windows added by lights out party. Linux, Macintosh added by LepricahnsGold.

Additional contributors: Kate Jones, Xantheous, Apogee IV, formercontrib.

Game added March 8, 2000. Last modified January 25, 2024.