Your dear eerie uncle Evan has yet another daily post for you, so if you’d lend me your ears…
Not so long ago, in a galaxy that was well, ours, Lucasfilm did more than just Star Wars games. Awesome titles like Day of the Tentacle, Maniac Mansion, Sam & Max hit the road, and many others graced the shelves. But there is one title in particular I’d like to talk about for today, and that would be a fun little game called Zombies Ate My Neighbors.
Perhaps best described as B-Movies meeting two player co-op, before there was Left 4 Dead, or Dead Rising, there was Zombies Ate My Neighbors. And sure, while you could brave the hoards of the undead alone, it was way more fun when you had a friend you could play with and occasionally screw over to get that extra special power up or weapon.
Oh yeah, as far as powerups and weapons go, this game had it all. Squirt guns filled with holy water, soda cans, weed whackers, bazookas were your arsenal against zombies, vampires, werewolves and chainsaw maniacs.
Sound tongue enough in cheek to you? Just check out some of the level names, such as Weird Kids on the Block, Nightmare on Terror Street, or Where the Red Fern Growls. There are more puns in this game than you can shake a rubber chicken at.
Like all classic games, the game is easy to play and get a handle of, but difficult to master. The controls are simple and easy to pick up, which is good because this game is grueling. No save system buck-o. You die three times without getting a password, you start all over. You similarly fail if you fail to save a single Neighbor in a level. And trust me, there will be levels where there is exactly one Neighbor.
This game also features a very catch and B-Movie themed soundtrack, taking you back to the days of tacky drive-thrus and copyright free soundtracks for Grindhouse movies, while still having a fun, playful childish nature to them. The awesome music is complimented by the cartoonish, bright graphics. The people that made this game must have had a lot of fun making it, and it shows. I mean, in what other game can you freeze a zombie with a fire extinguisher and save an oblivious teacher who is giving you an F- for Math? This is a game that knows that it's content is silly, and it wants to have fun with it.
Sound like great fun you say, but you don’t have a SNES? Well, good news! You used to have to quest pretty long and hard through fleabay and other secondary markets, but you don't need to trek across the Sahara to find this game. If you have a Wii, you can download it for the virtual console! (Or, you know, just download it for an emulator. But you wouldn't do that, right?)
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