Childhood Games That Don’t Hold Up
Zombies Ate My Neighbours
Zombies Ate My Neighbours might actually be one of the greatest horror games ever made and a legitimately great co-op game. You play as teens Zeke and Julie who must battle hordes of undead and various B-movie monsters in a quest to save the neighborhood, and maybe even the world.
However, this comes with some serious drawbacks.
The game’s passwording system is downright draconian, wherein if you were to use a password to skip the first two or three dozen levels, you would start off with nothing but a squirt gun, the most basic weapon in the game, which does not cut it against high-level foes.
The titular neighbors, who need to be rescued before you can progress to the next level, are surrounded by enemies that spawn in as soon as the player enters the area. This leads to a lot of unfair game overs and plenty of frustration, as you need to save at least one to proceed to the next level.
Couple this with the frankly awful boss design and this game is better left fondly remembered than revisited.
