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Zombie (Sweet Home)

GamesUndead1968 to 1999

The zombies of Capcom's Sweet Home, a Japan-only horror role-playing game of 1989. They matter less for what they do than for what followed: the game was the direct model for Resident Evil, and it is often credited with laying the groundwork for survival horror.1

Battle it
First appeared
1989
Sweet Home (1989)
Source work
Sweet Home (1989)
Capcom
Made in
Japan
What causes it
Other
Supernatural: the mansion is haunted by the ghost of Lady Mamiya.
Intelligence
Mindless

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today1989

Sweet Home (1989)

field notes

What the sources say

1

One of the enemy types of the 1989 Famicom game, with ghosts and dolls1

2

A character who dies stays dead for the rest of the game1

3

Based on a Japanese horror film of the same year1

4

The main inspiration for Resident Evil, whose producer directed it1

5

Never released outside Japan1

Sources

  1. Sweet Home (video game) - Wikipedia

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