Zombies Ate My Neighbors.

[Phil]

Zombies Ate My Neighbors.

Preface:
No, not my neighbors! HaHaHa, it’s a game! Made by Lucas arts it was a frequent rental from my local shop because it was a great game, but it was a bastard.
It had I don’t know how many levels it had but it had a lot, and you could imagine the time I wasted going through the passwords at the back of the manual looking for a good one. And the further you got the harder it got. And it got haaaard.

Graphics:
They where fine, fun and functional, nothing groundbreaking. It baffled me how they fit everything in the cart.

Sound:
Ah yes, the first level music still lives with me, and when you finish a level, that little jingle. And when you get a password; a Holy Grail sort of noise.

Playability:
It’s a Lucas arts game, so it oozes game quality, its big and fun and has varied levels always keeping you interested.

General:
It’s a fantastic game with lots to do, with parodies on sci-fi B-movies as level titles.
It’s a great game to dip in and out, perfect pick up and play value, you don’t have to regularly play it to understand it like RPGs’.

Compatibility:
The funny thing is, it runs too well on standard settings, so you have to but it on frame skip 0 or put on sound.

I give it:

4/5

 

[dr.no]

Has anyone actually played through this? I don't know how many levels there are, but I played this with a friend of mine for AGES.

 

[RomHacker316]

Ive beaten the game a few times with my little brother on the SNES. I think it had 56 levels or so but I havent played through in quite a while. Maybe Ill hock the SNES back up and have a run through it. I never got all the secret levels that are in the game.

 

[Rico]

Were the levels randomly generated or something? They did look a little generic... would explain how there are a whooping 56 of them.

 

[Shirohagen]

I used to love this game on the Megadrive - it was especially good in 2 player co-op mode. Since then I've used emulators to run it but some of the character sprites are always corrupt, has anyone else found this? I'd love to find an accurate version on my GP32. Not sure if the SNES differed from the Megadrive either...

 

[frolik]

what's the best version to play on the GP?

 

[Azure]

Were the levels randomly generated or something? They did look a little generic... would explain how there are a whooping 56 of them.

No, they're not. And they didn't look generic to me, maybe because I really like the game a lot and remember most of the levels vividly. I remember playing this when I was a kid, it was a lot of fun. However, back then, I was only able to get to Level ~48 or something (The dungeon level where you fight the spider, it was the one around Level 48).

BTW, I prefer the SNES version because that's the one I grew up with.

 

[CrazyDesi]

I think this is one of my favorite games of all time. Probably in the top 5 or so.

The reason I like this is because Ebgames(when it was known as Electronics Boutique) had it for about 7-8 dollars in this HUGE bin. I was amazed at how cheap it was.

Most of my friends went and bought it and we all tried to beat the game, but no one could lol .

 

[El_Diablo]

....hehe, must be my first post, anywho. This game is great fun, spent days playing it with my buddy when i was in secondary school, bit of an update on the 'Gauntlet' formula but since its absolutely oozing with Lucas Arts magic its a dream to play...actually, not sure how modern gamers would view it. I guess the kind of game an average snes player would love, an average PS2 player would find shallow....is that just me? If you like easy to pick up games with a masterfully constructed difficulty curve then this is for you...a definite lunch break hog

solid graphics, original sounds...not the kind of game that needed a dud sequel

 

[Totoro]

Uh so, this game works with GP32 even with sounds on?

Oh man! If thats true ... WOOHOO!