[5] Following the plot from 20th Century Fox's 1975 musical horror comedy film of the same name, the player assume the role of either Brad Majors or Janet Weiss in order to rescue one of the two playable characters, who has been transformed into stone by Dr. Frank-N-Furter's Medusa Transducer, within a set time limit before the mansion becomes a spaceship and takes off to the planet Transsexual Transylvania.

[6] Upon its release, Rocky Interactive Horror Show garnered mixed reception from critics who gave praise to multiple aspects such as the humor, campiness and surreal nature, with many singling out the audio as the game's most strong point, but was criticized for the clumsy user interface, gameplay, presentation and outdated visuals.

[7][8][18] Although the Jaguar CD version remained to be listed across multiple issues of online magazine Atari Explorer Online up until their last issue published in January 1996,[19][20][21] in addition of internal documents from Atari Corp. listing the project as in development in December 1995 and with the then-recently formed Atari Interactive announcing their plans to publish the PC version,[9][22] Atari would ultimately start cancelling upcoming titles for the Jaguar in February 1996 and closing their PC publishing division before merging with JT Storage in a reverse takeover on April of the same year,[11][12][13][14][23] which left the Jaguar CD version unreleased and the PC version shelved as a result.

[10] Rocky Interactive Horror Show for PC would be set to be released during the Christmas season of 1998,[24] before being eventually published by On-Line in Europe on March 1, 1999, and later in North America in November 2000.

[1][2] A PlayStation conversion was also announced and planned to be published alongside the Windows version around the same time, but it was never released for unknown reasons.