![]() ![]() ![]() The best visual features are the character sprites. The backgrounds can occasionally be a little ugly with too many bright colors, particularly in the shopping mall stages, or they can seem too tiled and monotonous, like in the warehouses and hedge mazes. While it certainly isn’t the most impressive title on the SNES and Genesis, its charming graphics and smooth animations go a long way. I still meet people with an SNES and one of the things our conversation eventually boils down to is: “Dude! Remember Zombies Ate My Neighbors? LOL.”īernie Sanders totally looks like Dr. What’s not to like? This lighthearted “period piece” rightfully takes its place as one of the most beloved titles of the 16-bit era. How this game was ever unsuccessful upon its initial release, I’ll never understand. But there are actually two ways to get a game over: the zombies and their colleagues eat all of your neighbors, or you get hit too many times and run out of extra lives. Collecting enough points in each stage can lead to the “Extra Bonus Victim” award, bringing your total back up. If you keep losing neighbors, you’ll eventually run out. If you do allow a neighbor to be killed, you’ll enter the next level with one less to save out of the usual ten. However, if you’re too inept, the Joneses and the Smiths innocently having their barbecues and arguing over who has the nicer sedan will get gobbled up by any number of the game’s hungry miscreants. Once you find them all, a door opens that will take you to the next level. You’re tasked with finding and retrieving your neighbors in each stage. Zombies Ate My Neighbors isn’t merely survival horror. It’s the little things… “Oh no! He’s shooting a less than moderate amount of water at me! My one weakness! Run awaaaaaaay!” – your friendly neighborhood zombie It’s wacky, yes, but the designers didn’t neglect to throw in references even here: silverware will one-shot werewolves and the crucifix is of course bomb at taking out vampires. Dishes, soda cans, bazookas, tomatoes, crucifixes, weed-whackers, fire extinguishers, sneakers, potions, first aid kits… in short, everything you’d need to survive world war Z. Kevin Costner crying because the “Dances with Werewolves” level was funnier than his romantic comedy, Dances with Wolves.Īrmed at first only with squirt guns, Zeke and Julie procure additional weapons and items in each level. The billion or so levels (ok, there are fifty-five) even have punny, parody names like “Where the Red Fern Growls”, “Nightmare on Terror Street”, “The Day the Earth Ran Away”, and “Dances with Werewolves”, referencing movies of yesteryear. Face down enemies such as Frankenstein’s monster, bug-eyed Martians, Dracula, the Mummy, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Blob, creepy dolls, the Fly, the Wolf Man, the clones evocative of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre guy, and of course, stinking hordes of the Living Dead in this mid 20th century pop-tour. Making your palms sweat since 1993.ī-movie monsters are not only referenced but they in fact form the proverbial vertebrae of Zombies Ate My Neighbors. Tongue, the mad scientist who unleashed his horrors on these poor American suburbs. Teaming up with a friend makes it easier to traverse the many stages and confront Dr. It’s the definitive way to play the game, in my opinion. If are unlike Zeke and have actual friends, your buddy can jump on a second controller and unleash simultaneous mulitplayer, dramatically increasing the funness level. Just why these two are fighting monsters with super-soakers is irrelevant. Then there’s Julie, a sweet brunette with a quick trigger finger and ponytail, who looks like she’d never be interested in playing this game with you. Zeke is an undoubtedly smelly alpha nerd complete with Sid’s shirt from Toy Story and his trademark red and blue 3D glasses, which again reference the popcorn-movie theme of the game. ![]() Players choose from one of two characters. ![]() My new favorite internet Pixar conspiracy. It boasts numerous stages, great graphics and music, and a huge assortment of weapons and enemies. The game is known simply as Zombies in Europe, where I guess eating one’s neighbors is frowned upon as a strictly “yankee” past time. Developed for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, Zombies Ate My Neighbors is an addicting top-down run and gun (a variation on the shoot ’em up genre). ![]()
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