Sometimes, only a few will be present, while other stages have ten of them.
The on-screen radar shows you the location of the neighbors you need to save. ZAMN is designed around 2-player co-op and unlike a lot of games of its day, you could play this with multiple people without using split-screen and without having to worry about someone holding you back since you’re pretty much always going to be headed in the same direction to save people. I’m not quite sure what’s in those things that makes them explode, but perhaps they’ve already got some Mentos inside – or TNT. The core game is essentially an overhead shooter, except for when it’s a PURPLE HULK SMASH sim, and when you’re blowing up zombies with soda grenades. Beyond lampooning ’50s sci-fi and horror movie conventions, it’s also a bit funnier in hindsight since the then-current playable male character basically looks like a parody of a ’90s kid with his red and blue 3D glasses, skull t-shirt, and giant spiked hair. It’s easily the best sendup of classic monster movies gaming has ever seen, and one of the funniest games ever without a word of dialogue (unless screams of terror count).
Given that the name of our retro feature is the graveyard, it’s kind of hard to believe it took so long to feature Zombies Ate My Neighbors in it. We come here to pay our respects, to reminisce, and to wonder aloud what a passing mad doctor might be able do with all these corpses and some high-definition lightning. Out back of the Hardcore Gamer office you’ll find our Graveyard, where countless long-dead classics lie.
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