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Zombie (Zombies Ate My Neighbors)

GamesUndead1968 to 1999

The suburban dead of LucasArts' 1993 run-and-gun comedy. The protagonists, armed with water guns, weed-whackers and exploding soda cans, try to rescue their neighbours from a catalogue of film monsters. The game came out before the ESRB existed and was censored in several markets.1

Battle it
First appeared
1993
Zombies Ate My Neighbors (1993)
Source work
Zombies Ate My Neighbors (1993)
LucasArts
Made in
USA
What causes it
Never explained
The game gives no explanation; the zombies are one of many film monsters attacking the suburbs.
Intelligence
Mindless
Weak spots
  • water pistol

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today1993

Zombies Ate My Neighbors (1993)

field notes

What the sources say

1

The title monster of a game that also has vampires, werewolves, mummies, pod people and chainsaw maniacs1

2

A neighbour touched by a monster is dead for the rest of the game1

3

The monsters draw on 1950s horror films as well as Friday the 13th and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre1

4

Nintendo of America had the blood changed to purple ooze1

5

Sold in Europe and Australia simply as 'Zombies', with the chainsaws replaced by axes1

Sources

  1. Zombies Ate My Neighbors - Wikipedia

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