
All Hell Unleashed (NES)
A downloadable free NES homebrew
THIS FAN GAME IS FREE!
Story
Amidst a realm where darkness reigns and evil lurks in every shadow, a sinister cult has unleashed chaos upon our world. Introducing 'All Hell Unleashed,' the NES game that pits YOU against the most infamous horror icons of all time.. Jason, Michael, Freddy, Candyman, Ghostface, Leatherface, Chucky, Pennywise, Pinhead and the Killer Klowns. As the world teeters on the brink of eternal fear, you must embark on a perilous journey to confront these iconic villains. But beware, time is of the essence, for the shattered fragments of a cursed amulet hold the key to sealing the dimensional rift and saving our world from eternal darkness. Can you rise to the challenge, gather the fragments, and stop the cult before it's too late? The fate of humanity rests in your hands. 'All Hell Unleashed' Confront the terror… or let it claim your soul.
Controls & Movement
• Use the directional pad to move. Press Down to duck. Hold B to run. Press A to jump. Press B to throw your weapon.
• Press Select to switch weapons. Press Start to pause (pausing is disabled during boss fights).
• Double-tap A to perform a double jump on certain platforms.
• Press A or Start to advance to the next screen. Press Select to skip the story.
Weapons & Combat
• Knife – Deals 1 damage to regular enemies. Short range but can be thrown rapidly.
• Brass Knuckle Knife – Deals 2 damage to regular enemies and can pass through blocks. Slower but travels a long distance.
• Molotov Cocktail – Deals 3 damage to regular enemies and can destroy breakable blocks. Follows an arc when thrown.
• Different weapons have unique effects on enemies and obstacles.
• Breakable Blocks will reappear if you leave the screen and return.
• Bosses become vulnerable when they turn red. Each boss has a specific weapon weakness, causing them to take 2 damage per hit instead of 1. Defeat them to obtain amulet shards.
Power-Ups
• Invincibility Potion – Appears when you have 1 health, granting temporary invincibility.
• Time Freeze – Appears when you have 3 health, stopping all enemy movement for a short time.
• Power-ups only spawn in the main stages (not in Druid stages). However, if collected before entering a portal, they will carry over into Druid stages until their timer runs out.
• Each power-up can only be obtained once per life.
• Pausing is disabled while a power-up is active.
Objectives & Survival
• Collect 8 Dimensional Orbs in each level to open a portal to the next area.
• If you open a portal and it becomes stuck somewhere, another one will spawn elsewhere in the level if you search. If you die with all 8 orbs, the portal will open automatically when you continue.
• Save damsels to fully restore your health. Killing them will reduce your health to 1. Your choices will determine the game's ending.
• Gather all 10 amulet shards to restore balance to the world.
Codes & Secrets
• Camp Blood Mode - Press the select button 13 times on the "Play our other NES games!!" screen in the credits.
• Infinite health cheat (except pits) - On the first credits screen, press Select, A, Left, Up, Down. A sfx will go off if done correctly (This spells salud which means health in spanish).
• Absurd Mode - Right after the amulet shatters in the story, press A, B, Select, Up, Right, and Down (spells "Absurd"). A laughing SFX will play if done correctly. In this mode, if you get hit once... YOU'RE DEAD ☠️
• Disrobe Mode - WARNING NSFW. On the title screen press Down, Select, Right, and B. A sfx will go off if done correctly (This spells disrobe without the vowels). Pay close attention to the player, weapons, damsels, and level win screens when this is activated.
• Jump straight to the final boss by pressing B, A, Down, B, A, Down on the "Fista Productions Presents" screen (Spells BADBAD).
• Fista Cameos - On the lead-up to the final boss, fall down the first gap to see some familiar faces.
• All Lag Unleashed - Enter the 2nd gap in the lead-up to the final boss to a room that pokes fun at the lag issue in the game.
• Freddy vs Jason - Enter the 3rd gap in the lead-up to the final boss to see Freddy and Jason fighting each other for eternity in hell!
Note: For the codes that require a button combination, they must be performed after the fade-in is complete for them to work properly.
Game Genie Codes:
• VILLAINS - This will enter a secret room when you select boss rush.
• SKELETAL - This will replace the main theme with another familiar tune.
Behind the Horror
This is my swan song to my free NES horror fan games. This game began in January 2024 when I couldn’t decide which horror franchise to tackle next.. so I crammed in as many as possible! What began as a chaotic idea turned into a fully fleshed-out game, built to the best of my amateur abilities.
This has been the hardest game I’ve ever programmed. I can’t thank Kevin81 and Dale Coop enough for their coding expertise (and for putting up with me bugging them daily). It’s also the longest I’ve ever worked on a game. My other projects were short, simple games knocked out in 1-3 months tops. With this one, I’d go on quick creative bursts, then hit weeks of burnout, mentally recovering before diving back in.
But we stuck with it, and now we’re here. I’m proud of this farewell game, and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed stitching this monster to life. 🤘🏻
Started in January 2024. Released April 11, 2025.
Credits
- Game, Programming, Misc GFX - Steve (Fista Productions)
- Music, SFX, Dev Help - Kevin81
- Lead Pixel Artist - Lilith Brendan
- Horror Icon Label Artwork - Tollbooth10
- Commercial Voiceover - Andy Colón
- Bitbox, card insert, & cartridge design - Steve (Fista Productions)
Songs used in AHU
- Friday the 13th Stage - F13 Part 3D Theme Song by Harry Manfredini
- Halloween Stage - Halloween Theme by John Carpenter
- A Nightmare on Elm Street Stage - A Nightmare on My Street by The Fresh Prince & Dj Jazzy Jeff
- Candyman Stage - It Was Always You, Helen by Philip Glass
- Scream Stage - Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre Stage - TCM ambience by Kevin81
- Child's Play Stage - Child's Play Theme
- Stephen King's It Stage - Pennywise Theme Music by Richard Bellis
- Hellraiser Stage - Hellraiser Theme by Christopher Young
- Killer Klowns Stage - Killer Klowns by The Dickies
- Title Screen - Mystery by John Carpenter
- Story Screen - Roberta Williams' Phantasmagoria Chapter 6 music
- Game Over Screen - Trinity by Matt Kennedy
- Boss Theme - It's Time To Leave by Dan Dombrowsky
- Final Boss Theme - Slowed down reimagining of boss theme by Kevin81
- Win Screen - Hofner Dawn by John Carpenter
Extras
- "Official" NES Cart label WITH & WITHOUT top.
- Bitbox Cover art (Stone Age Gamer) can be downloaded HERE.
- 1 Page Manual for Bitbox - FRONT, BACK.
- The All Hell Unleashed OST by Kevin81.
- Speedrun.com page
- RetroAchievements page (Under Construction)
- Playlist I created of All Hell Unleashed videos I found on YouTube .
Be sure to play the NES demakes of my old 90s horror PC games that started it all!
Friday the 13th: Return to Camp Blood (1998)
Halloween: October 31st (1999)
Updated | 2 days ago |
Status | Released |
Rating | Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars (8 total ratings) |
Author | 8-Bit Slasher |
Genre | Platformer |
Tags | a-nightmare-on-elm-street, friday-the-13th, ghostface, Halloween, hellraiser, Horror, killer-klowns-from-outer-space, NES (Nintendo Entertainment System), NES ROM, nintendo-entertainment-system |
Download
Install instructions
NES File: Download and play with your favorite NES emulator. Best played with Mesen.
When using an NES/SNES Classic. Change core to FCEUmm, then when playing press start + select, options, and change color palette to "sony-cxa2025as-us" for best results.
Development log
- 5,000 Downloads in Under 6 Weeks!!2 days ago
- Speedrun Page Now Live for All Hell Unleashed!8 days ago
- This beautiful double-sided coloring book comes with mini All Hell Unleashed bus...10 days ago
- All Hell Unleashed has made its way onto John Riggs’s YouTube channel!14 days ago
- All Hell Unleashed Gets a Video Review from Burst Error!16 days ago
- Bloody Disgusting wrote an article about 'All Hell Unleashed'!36 days ago
- All Hell Unleashed (Release Day!)43 days ago
Comments
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Are you going (or can you) release a mapper 2 version like you did with Plummet Challenge? I have a portable NES emulator on my 3DS but it only works with that mapper/
Hello! You’re in luck! This is already mapper 2. Hope it works for ya 🙌🏻
Nice!
You should add the "NES ROM" tag to this. I def would have missed it if it weren't for one of my Twitch friends playing it
Thanks for the heads up! They only allow 10 tags. I sacrificed one for the “NES ROM” tag just now 🙌🏻🔥🩸🪦
Rad! I'm not sure what most people scrape, but I usually tell people to search itch by the "NES ROM" tag to find the stuff that runs on original hardware. A lot of the other tags are a bit of a mix of actual NES games and "NES Inspired" games. My buddy @Skunky48 on Twitch was the one playing it. I'll probably give it a go this weekend, too but I only average like 3-4 people per stream haha
Skunky!! He's a good dude! Yeah, I always miss 1 or 2 vital tags. I appreciate you reminding me. Hey, every little bit helps and I'm just happy that people are playing! 🎃🤘🏻💀🔥
This is a UNROM game yes? Looking to make my own repro for personal use and trying to use the right aftermarket PCB
That is correct! Awesome. Happy to hear that! 🎃🎃🎃
Which mapper does this use? I was wanting to flash it to a cartridge using my RetroStage kit and need to know which cart to use.
This game uses mapper 2. Hope that helps 🙌🏻
Hi, is there an email where I can contact you? I'm currently working on getting permission/license on a certain IP and I would like to see if you would be interested in helping to develop the NES game. I'm a Huge fan of All Hell Unleashed and the Halloween game you made years ago. I think you would knock this game out of the park. my email is Kennymcqueen1988@yahoo.com
Thanks for you time.
This is so fun... and HARD! I've only played the Friday the 13th level so far... but I did collect all the orbs and beat Jason. It took me many tries... but I did it! The style of the plat forming kind of reminds me of those old Acclaim NES Simpsons games like Bart VS The World... in a good way.
Lastly, I was surprised to hear that Phantasmagoria music during the story screen intro.... I love that game and didn't expect to hear it in an NES game.
I saved my progress and will continue playing this more tonight. :-)
Thank you! It’s one of those games where, once you start memorizing everything and recognizing the patterns, it gets easier.
Heck yeah! I enjoyed those Simpsons games, jank and all!
Phantasmagoria was one of my favorite games growing up. I had to show it some love for having such a big impact on my teenage years.
I’m going to add your game to my playlist too! Can’t wait to try it out after seeing all the great posts about it. 🤘🏻💀🔥🪦
This is an absolute great time! Keep up the wonderful work!❤🎩
As long as I can find the free time, you know I will! Thank you so much, it means a lot to me! 🤘🏻💀🔥🩸🖤
I know this is not possible because of copyright reasons. But if this had a physical release, I would totally purchase it. Solid game!!
Thank you so much! Yeah, unfortunately, I would never sell them because of copyright issues, but that doesn’t stop pirates on AliExpress and other sites from selling all kinds of homebrews.
Loved it! Can really tell a lot of heart went into this.
Thank you! 15 months worth of love went into this! it was worth every ounce of blood, sweat, and tears though! And there were a lot of them 😂🤘🏻🙌🏻🖤🩸
Allways impressed with 8bitslasher's work, and this game only adds to that! Great music and atmosphere, exactly the kinda lo-bit horror that hits exactly right. Love that there is a boss battle mode so you can practice the bosses and not have to replay the levels again and again to learn the boss patterns.
A perfect little horror game!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed this and my previous games. A long time lurker, I like that 🖤🩸🤘
TY very awesome lil game!
Thank you! I appreciate that! 🪦🩸🤘
One can definitely feel the sweat, tears, dedication and blood that went into the game.
Most importantly the blood, It’s bloody awesome 🔪🩸🔥
Horror and Slasher movie/game fan, what can you ask more.
Thanks a lot, another masterpiece. 🪦
Have a fright night everyone! 💀
It was for sure a grueling 15 months to get this bad boy made.. and it was 100% worth it! Super proud of what it's become. Thank you for all the kind words. YOU RULE! 🪦🩸🖤