
There's a cartoony look to the characters, but very little in the way of overt gags. The game walks a fairly bold line between humorous and serious. Zombies is available on the Wii Virtual Console, so there's no excuse not to replay it. Monsters can be distracted using inflatable clown decoys, while potions transform you into a hulking beast, capable of smashing all in your path. Keys are needed to open doors, but you can also use a bazooka to blast them open, or just explode through weakened walls.
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A weed whacker makes short work of alien plant life, while the roaming gelatinous creatures inspired by The Blob can be quickly dispatched in authentic movie style if you use the cold blast of a fire extinguisher. You can kill a werewolf with squirts eventually, but it'll die instantly if you throw some silverware. This is, after all, a game where soda cans double as grenades and ice lollies are deadly. A water pistol is your main weapon, ample for stopping a zombie with one shot, but later foes require more imaginative tools. Having established such an intuitive baseline, Zombies very quickly starts layering a surprisingly deep system of weapons and items on top. Zombies used a password system to return to later levels, as a battery save feature was deemed too expensive. Let all the survivors die and it's game over. Reach them before the constantly spawning monsters do, or they get munched. After choosing to play as either Zeke or Julie (or both, in two-player), you roam around maze-like levels looking for a stock set of suburban survivors. In terms of construction, Zombies is, like so many older console games, deliciously simple. The titular zombies may form the baseline threat, but the game draws on every kind of monster and menace to ever loom over a drive-in. Developed by LucasArts and published by Konami, it was a wonderfully witty and playful tribute to B-movie horror and sci-fi of all kinds. At least, not in the blood and guts sense.

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Zombies - or Zombies Ate My Neighbors, to use its full US title - wasn't really a horror game, though. Or as fresh as a mobile carcass of rotten meat can be. Resident Evil didn't even exist back then, and the prospect of thinning the reanimated horde was still fresh. The world was different back in 1994, though.

Release a game simply called Zombies today - as this Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive title was named in Europe - and the best reaction you could expect is a weary roll of the eyes as an undead-saturated medium groans at the very prospect of more shambling cadavers to wade through.
