Frankenstein: The Monster Returns

Frankenstein: The Monster Returns is an action video game developed by Tose. The game has a player confront the recently resurrected Frankenstein's monster who had kidnapped Emily, the daughter of the village elder. The game has the player moving through side-scrolling levels collecting fighting monsters while collecting weapon and health upgrades in order to rescue Emily from the monster. Like other games that draw influence from the characters in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), it predominantly is influenced by the iconography of the Universal's Frankenstein films. It was published by Bandai America on July 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System.