5/29/2020 Zombies Ate My Neighbors Julie
Play as Zeke or Julie through 55 deadly levels of Zombies Ate My Neighbors! Destroy zombies with a squirt gun full of holy water!
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There are few things Dana Wessel loves more than old-school Nintendo games. Every week here at GoRadioMN.com he takes a look back at a classic game to see how well it holds up in 2018 with a bit called ‘Remember That Game?’. Have a game you want to see him take on? Or email himI figured in honor of Halloween that we would take a look at the masterpiece known as Zombies Ate My Neighbors.Game:Zombies Ate My NeighborsSystem:Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega GenesisRelease date:July 1993Developer:Lucas ArtsReview:Whenever there is a discussion about the best Super Nintendo games of all time, what titles get brought up? Obviously Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Mario World and Chrono Trigger are always mentioned. Other games like Super Metroid, Home Improvement, and Secret of Mana as well.
But know what game absolutely deserves to be mentioned among the greatest? Zombies Ate My Neighbors.It was a game that never really got the love it deserved at the time, but over the years thanks to Virtual Consoles and not-exactly-legal emulators, it has become something of a cult classic.I love that they waste no time with a backstory on Zombies. You just pick either Zeke or Julie and start blasting zombies while rescuing a bunch of neighbors in each of the 48 levels. One of the coolest aspects of this game is what they give you to kill the zombies. Squirt guns, plates, weed whackers — yes! Weed whackers!!
— and fire extinguishers. It’s all so silly and fun. You quickly move from the neighborhood to shopping malls, castles, pyramids and football fields. The enemies go from being standard zombies to werewolves, vampires, and giant-ass babies. It’s soOne of the really cool aspects of this game as the badass co-op mode. You can play two-player mode and go zombie blasting with a friend.
It is like Contra with more weed whackers.Zombies clearly doesn’t have the prestige of Super Mario World or the emotional depth of Chrono Trigger. But you know what? It’s just a lotta damn fun.
Sometimes that’s all you want out of a video game.Final score:Gotta give Zombies Ate My Neighbors nine weed whackers outta 10.
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