Friday the 13th

This game came out on the original Nintendo system and was supposed to be controversial or something, but it really just plays out like your typical game during the time except for the fact every now and then Jason comes out to kill you. Really though you are attacked by more than him as snakes and other critters come after you, like you needed the extra challenge. There are horrible boat scenes, you have to rescue the kiddies, and then you face off against Jason in a shed almost Punch Out style only you get to use machetes and such on him. If you do manage to take his health all the way down he only comes back like one of his bad sequels and you must face him all over again and he is even stronger than before. So in the end you have your typical Nintendo game that is incredibly hard and challenging. I would have rather been Jason hunting the teens and killing them as that would have just been more fun as it would have been different for the time.

I have played that game my self and to me Friday The 13th (VG) was to boring,and to stupid for me,there is no plot in that game except all you do is run around in the woods and go in cabins hoping to get jumped by Jason,him self the game is stupid because it is not scary and all Jason,all he ever does is move side to side.I don't even know why they made that game.Me I would give it a zer0,for being such a retarded game (YAWN)

This game was very challenging, and as a 10 year old I didn't pick up on Jason's striking patterns. After figuring out how to remember where your counselors are and utilize them all to keep them alive and well equipped, you must defeat a series of beatings by Jason. The lake will wipe you out of life, and there is nothing you can do about it, which always made me mad. When the screen would stop scrolling, you know Jason is coming, but sometimes he would pop up and scare the crap out me. If it took you a while to master Metroid, this game is a great challenge. I never did beat it before growing into my adolescence and not caring about NES anymore, so I was not disappointed by the lame ending!

Seriously one of the stupidest games I've played from this era. This makes Friday the 13th: The Game look like a masterpiece in comparison. It's bonkers to me that this trash-tier game has managed to cultivate a cult-following over the years.

So excited to play out Friday the 13th as a kid, we all got on our bikes and rushed to the video store when they FINALLY got it...

... only to be disappointed again by another horrible game based on a movie.

It was more playable that MOST of the other games based on movies... but it was still a jumbeled non horrific, boring and repetitive mess where Jason was far too easy to beat and everything else had no place in the Friday the 13th world.

it was a disappointment, but at least it was a disappoint that we could tolerate playing for a little while