Unfortunately, Icer Addis ended up leaving to join up with Electronic Arts in making sports games. Ethan Petty joined Eidos Interactive as a writer and has been trying to develop Timeslaughter 2, but he apparently needs funds to pay the programmers in making this game.
Ironically, history will remember them not for their violent games, but for NESticle, a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that's not just peppered with crude and puerile humour in its UI, but also revolutionized the emulation scene, introducing many features that are now considered standard in today's emulators such as screencasting and the ability for users to create graphical hacks, as well as influencing video game music and console case modding. NESticle was made with performance in mind, with its rather modest system requirements allowing it to run on a 486DX or Pentium of the day, albeit at the cost of accuracy as a lot of corners were cut and various hacks and approximations were used to speed up emulation.
Addis returned to the emulation scene in 2022 when he released an early build of MetalNES
, which as the name implies emulates the Nintendo Entertainment System. Unlike NESticle however, MetalNES takes accuracy up to eleven by implementing the console's functionality at a transistor level (which is no small feat, assuming the same would be done on the countless cartridge support chips used in certain games), and is devoid of the lowbrow humor typical of Bloodlust's library.
Games produced by this company:
- Executioners (1992 - DOS).
- Nogginknockers (1993 - DOS).
- Nogginknockers 2 (1996 - DOS/works well in Win9x).
- Timeslaughter (1996 DOS/works well in Win9x).
- Nogginknockers X The Duel (2000 - Win9x).
- Wrath Of The Sea King (2000 - Win9x).
- Terror Firmer (2000 - Win9x).
- Tromaball (2000 - Win9x).
- Sprong! (2000 - Win9x).
- Skippy's Revenge (2001 - Win9x).
Bloodlust Software provides examples of:
- Black Comedy: Their games and emulators are filled to the brim with violent, gory and politically-incorrect references which made them a sort of proto-Wonky Tonk Botty of the late 90s to the early 2000s.
- Refuge in Audacity: Angry at the outrage by moral guardians taking umbrage at Doom and Mortal Kombat (1992)? Then why not make your games that are just as outrageously violent?
- Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000: The bread and butter of their operation, done as a morbidly humorous response to Moral Guardians taking offence at violence in interactive media.
