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* BodyHorror: One late-stage boss appears to be a sentient armed Jeep, but shooting off enough of the vehicle body reveals it to be a monstrous, flesh-and-blood ''thing'' of the same approximate shape, wearing Jeep body as a carapace.
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* BodyHorror: One late-stage boss appears to be a sentient armed Jeep, but shooting off enough of the vehicle body reveals it to be a monstrous, flesh-and-blood fleshy ''thing'' of the same approximate shape, wearing a Jeep body as a carapace.
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* BodyHorror: One late-stage boss appears to be a sentient monster truck, but shooting off enough of the vehicle body reveals it to be a vaguely human, flesh-and-blood ''thing'' of the same approximate shape, wearing a truck body as a carapace.
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* BodyHorror: One late-stage boss appears to be a sentient monster truck, armed Jeep, but shooting off enough of the vehicle body reveals it to be a vaguely human, monstrous, flesh-and-blood ''thing'' of the same approximate shape, wearing a truck Jeep body as a carapace.
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* BodyHorror: One late-stage boss appears to be a sentient monster truck, but shooting off enough of the vehicle body reveals it to be a vaguely human, flesh-and-blood ''thing'' of the same approximate shape, wearing a truck body as a carapace.
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* DestinationDefenestration: Level 2 starts with two zombie gunmen ambushing you in a glass-panel elevator, both of which you dispatch by blasting them out through the glass.
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* PeopleJars: The cloned bosses during the BossRush stage are kept in stasis inside transparent jars, and bursts out to attack you on sight.
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* {{Animorphism}}: Stage 1's boss is a leather-clad KnifeNut zombie punk that, after being shot enough times, turns into a yellow dog for some unexplained reason.
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* {{Animorphism}}: Stage 1's boss is a leather-clad KnifeNut knife-wielding zombie punk that, after being shot enough times, turns into a yellow dog for some unexplained reason.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The game was made in 1989 and is set in 1999.
!! ''Second Nightmare'' contains examples of:
* BoomHeadshot: This time you can defeat zombies immediately by blowing up their heads. It's also part of the scoring system: if you manage to blow off the zombies' arms and then their head you'll get many more points.
* FeaturelessProtagonist: The playable character are marine commandos, but other than that absolutely nothing is shown or said about them.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The final boss, some kind of weird floating giant eyeless monster that throws meteors.
* KillSat: The third and final tier of available bombs, it's much less effective than it appears.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Again, the game is set about ten years after the year it was made.
!! ''Second Nightmare'' contains examples of:
* BoomHeadshot: This time you can defeat zombies immediately by blowing up their heads. It's also part of the scoring system: if you manage to blow off the zombies' arms and then their head you'll get many more points.
* FeaturelessProtagonist: The playable character are marine commandos, but other than that absolutely nothing is shown or said about them.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The final boss, some kind of weird floating giant eyeless monster that throws meteors.
* KillSat: The third and final tier of available bombs, it's much less effective than it appears.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Again, the game is set about ten years after the year it was made.
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* CuteMonsterGirl: Absolutely inverted regarding the female zombies. Most, if not all, of them are identical hags that are reminiscent of Iron Maiden's Eddie the Head.
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* MrFanservice: For some reason several male zombies are shirtless or naked and have muscular bodies and chiseled features.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Sammy Statelyheavily resembles Creator/ChuckNorris.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Sammy Stately
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* SequentialBoss: The final fight is one example. After the MadScientist gets defeated and exposed as [[spoiler:an alien brain monster that phases in and out the walls while shooting missiles]], beating him will have his remains crawl into a weird giant contraption that has to be destroyed piece by piece, after which the game finally ends. [[spoiler:But the alien invasion just began...]]
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* RewardingVandalism: Inverted. Shooting the buildings' and the subway's windows, as well as the glass capsules in level 5's corridor, will only make other enemies appear, and the stages are already overcrowded as they are...
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* SequelGap: Almost 10 years between the first game and its sequel, and 25 years between it and its mobile successor/reboot.
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* IncongrouslyDressedZombie: A few of them are American football players, oddly enough always carried by zombie owls/eagles.
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* IncongrouslyDressedZombie: IncongruouslyDressedZombie: A few of them are American football players, oddly enough always carried by zombie owls/eagles.
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* {{Animorphism}}: Stage 1's boss is a leather-clad KnifeNut zombie punk that, after being shot enough times, turns into a yellow dog for some unexplained reason.
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* DownerEnding: The final enemy has been defeated, but [[spoiler:the alien invasion]] had just begun, since the heroes are horrified to see [[spoiler:a gigantic flying saucer hovering above the town.]] Also counts as BolivianArmyEnding.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Most bosses and mid-bosses are random monsters and things unrelated to the zombies. [[spoiler:But they could be a results of the aliens' experimentation.]]
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* DownerEnding: The final enemy has been defeated, but [[spoiler:the alien invasion]] had just begun, since the heroes are horrified to see [[spoiler:a gigantic flying saucer spaceship hovering above the town.]] Also counts as BolivianArmyEnding.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Most bosses and mid-bosses are random monsters and things unrelated to the zombies. [[spoiler:But they could bea results of the aliens' experimentation.]]]]
* IncongrouslyDressedZombie: A few of them are American football players, oddly enough always carried by zombie owls/eagles.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Most bosses and mid-bosses are random monsters and things unrelated to the zombies. [[spoiler:But they could be
* IncongrouslyDressedZombie: A few of them are American football players, oddly enough always carried by zombie owls/eagles.
* MadScientist: The final boss is one of these, sitting on some sort of cybernetic throne. Apparently he was the originator of the zombie plague. [[spoiler:He's actually an one-eyed alien BrainMonster disguised as a human for some reason.]]
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Blue-skinned zombies that are able to drive vehicles and operate firearms. Somewhat justified in that [[spoiler:aliens made them.]]
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Blue-skinned Blue- or grey-skinned zombies that are able to drive vehicles and operate firearms. Somewhat justified in that [[spoiler:aliens made them.]]
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* BossRush: Stage 7 has the heroes confront clones of all the previously killed bosses and mid-bosses before the final enemy.
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* DownerEnding: The final enemy has been defeated, but [[spoiler:the alien invasion]] had just begun, since the heroes are horrified to see [[spoiler:a gigantic flying saucer hovering above the town.]] Also counts as BolivianArmyEnding.
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* JumpScare: Some versions of the arcade have a zombie's head popping up from below and covering the whole screen during the attract mode, specifically during the explanation of the various weapons and bonus items.
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* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Most bosses and mid-bosses are random monsters and things unrelated to the zombies. [[spoiler:But they could be a results of the aliens' experimentation.]]
* LudicrousGibs: If zombies don't explode in a myriad of pieces, it means they're not really dead.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Sammy Stately heavily resembles Creator/ChuckNorris.
* LudicrousGibs: If zombies don't explode in a myriad of pieces, it means they're not really dead.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Sammy Stately heavily resembles Creator/ChuckNorris.
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* FollowTheLeader: The first arcade is already similar to SNK's own ''Mechanized Attack''; ''Second Nightmare'' is much more similar to ''The House of the Dead'' than its predecessor in graphics, gameplay and overall feel, with a bit of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' for added measure.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: ''Second Nightmare'' was made for the failed Hyper Neo Geo 64 system (only 7 games were produced for it) and as such it was never emulated and is extremely hard to find. The mobile game as well was discontinued and removed from every app store in 2015.
* MilestoneCelebration: ''Beast Busters Featuring KOF'' was made by SNK Playmore as a reboot of the series on its 25th anniversary, and it was also released on ''The King of Fighters''' 20th anniversary.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: ''Second Nightmare'' was made for the failed Hyper Neo Geo 64 system (only 7 games were produced for it) and as such it was never emulated and is extremely hard to find. The mobile game as well was discontinued and removed from every app store in 2015.
* MilestoneCelebration: ''Beast Busters Featuring KOF'' was made by SNK Playmore as a reboot of the series on its 25th anniversary, and it was also released on ''The King of Fighters''' 20th anniversary.
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* BarbieDollAnatomy: Stage 4 is set along a river and as such in its waters there are several naked male and female zombies, which lack attributes.
* DualBoss: A couple of muscular zombie twins wearing hockey masks (and not much else) at the end of stage 2. A trio of zombie bikers at the end of stage 3.
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* RaisingTheSteaks: Zombie dogs, bats, owls and fish among the enemies.
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!!''Beast Busters'' contains examples of:
* AlienInvasion: [[spoiler:The actual reason behind the zombie epidemic.]]
* AlliterativeName: The player characters are named Paul Patriot, Johnny Justice and Sammy Stately.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Blue-skinned zombies that are able to drive vehicles and operate firearms. Somewhat justified in that [[spoiler:aliens made them.]]
!!''Beast Busters'' contains examples of:
* AlienInvasion: [[spoiler:The actual reason behind the zombie epidemic.]]
* AlliterativeName: The player characters are named Paul Patriot, Johnny Justice and Sammy Stately.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Blue-skinned zombies that are able to drive vehicles and operate firearms. Somewhat justified in that [[spoiler:aliens made them.]]
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!!The franchise as a whole has examples of the following tropes:
* FollowTheLeader: The first arcade is already similar to SNK's own ''Mechanized Attack''; ''Second Nightmare'' is much more similar to ''The House of the Dead'' than its predecessor in graphics, gameplay and overall feel, with a bit of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' for added measure.
* MilestoneCelebration: ''Beast Busters Featuring KOF'' was made by SNK Playmore as a reboot of the series on its 25th anniversary, and it was also released on ''The King of Fighters''' 20th anniversary.
* OddballInTheSeries: ''Dark Arms'' is not a light gun/shooter game like the others, but an overhead action RPG. It's also a ''Castlevania''-esque dark fantasy title rather than sci-fi horror like the others, and it was developed by Noise Factory rather than SNK.
* SequelGap: Almost 10 years between the first game and its sequel, and 25 years between it and its mobile successor/reboot.
!!The franchise as a whole has examples of the following tropes:
* FollowTheLeader: The first arcade is already similar to SNK's own ''Mechanized Attack''; ''Second Nightmare'' is much more similar to ''The House of the Dead'' than its predecessor in graphics, gameplay and overall feel, with a bit of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' for added measure.
* MilestoneCelebration: ''Beast Busters Featuring KOF'' was made by SNK Playmore as a reboot of the series on its 25th anniversary, and it was also released on ''The King of Fighters''' 20th anniversary.
* OddballInTheSeries: ''Dark Arms'' is not a light gun/shooter game like the others, but an overhead action RPG. It's also a ''Castlevania''-esque dark fantasy title rather than sci-fi horror like the others, and it was developed by Noise Factory rather than SNK.
* SequelGap: Almost 10 years between the first game and its sequel, and 25 years between it and its mobile successor/reboot.
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'''Beast Busters''' is an arcade LightGunGame made by Creator/{{SNK}} in 1989 where up to three players could join forces to escape from an unnamed American town overrun by zombies and other creatures. Despite predating ''VideoGame/TheHouseOfTheDead'' by almost a decade, and being converted for several formats, it never became anything more than a CultClassic and, when a sequel was made about ten years later, it was pretty clearly influenced by Sega's much more influential series.
Overall the series is comprised by four games, which are however barely related to one another:
* ''Beast Busters'' (arcade, 1989)
* ''Beast Busters - Second Nightmare'' (Hyper Neo Geo 64, 1998)
* ''Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999'' (Neo Geo Pocket Color, 1999)
* ''Beast Busters Featuring KOF'' (Android and iOS, 2014)
A pachislot machine inspired by the latter game was also produced by SNK Playmore in 2015.
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Overall the series is comprised by four games, which are however barely related to one another:
* ''Beast Busters'' (arcade, 1989)
* ''Beast Busters - Second Nightmare'' (Hyper Neo Geo 64, 1998)
* ''Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999'' (Neo Geo Pocket Color, 1999)
* ''Beast Busters Featuring KOF'' (Android and iOS, 2014)
A pachislot machine inspired by the latter game was also produced by SNK Playmore in 2015.
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