Today, we're going to take a look at my personal favorite video game for any console. Zombies Ate My Neighbors, for the SNES.
Zombies Ate My Neighbors is my opinion of the scariest video game ever made. Even the damned title screen is creepy as fuck.
But then again, this is coming from someone who's perpetually stuck in a year from 1987-1998, depending on the day
of the week. I've also been afraid of E.T. until I was 13. But that's beside the point. Let's get back to the game. The point
of the game is to, uhh... There actually is no real point except go on a mindless killing spree and try to rescue the local
humans before they get killed. Or you can kill the humans.
As you can see, you can choose from two different playable characters. I usually pick the boy, not beacause I'm sexist, but
because he's wearing 3-D glasses. Oh well, now for my senseless slaughter of thousands of deadites.
The first level is fairly simple. You just shoot your water gun at anything that doesn't look like a normal human being. Listening
to the game's music while playing in the cemetery section of this level is pretty damn creepy of you ask me. The second level
is basically the same thing, only it gets really dark and scary.
OH MY GOD! Little hatchet-throwing baby dolls! This is definitely the creepiest game ever made. Now, I'm in the third
level. I have yet to figure out how we get from the town graveyard to a shopping mall/grocery store. Oh well, and onward to
the next level.
Fourth level. This is the hardest level so far. It's called Chainsaw Hedgemaze Mayhem, and in this level you have to
rescue the neighbors from Jason wannabes. Anyway, in this level, there's a red bottle, and if you drink it, you turn into
this giant purple gorilla. And you can punch Chainsaw Charlie here in the face. Anyways, the potion wears off after about
a minute, and the level goes back to being harder than hell. This is as far as I can get in the game right now, but I'll put
up a new article on the levels beyond these later on.
--Kyle
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