History VideoGame / HouseoftheDead

* ''VideoGame/ZombieRevenge'' (1999): A BeatEmUp spinoff that was released to arcades and the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast, featuring new characters as well as references to the main series.
* ''The Typing of the Dead'': (1999) Same as ''2'', except you're killing zombies by [[EdutainmentGame typing words and phrases on your keyboard]]. In 2004, it was released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 as ''Typing of the Dead: Zombie Panic'', but [[NoExportForYou only in Japan]]. The game was followed by two sequels, which rehashed ''III'' and ''Overkill''.

* ''VideoGame/ThePinballOfTheDead'' (2002): A PinballSpinoff for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance, featuring elements from ''2''.

* ''English of the Dead'' (2008) for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS. A [[NoExportForYou Japan-only release]] designed to help Japanese speakers improve their English language skills. Like ''Typing of the Dead'', it uses the story and setting of ''2''.

The series has had ports over its run; the original game was ported over to UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn; '' 2'' got ported to the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast, and ''III'' was ported on the original UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}[[labelnote:*]](next to ''VideoGame/SilentScope'', the only light-gun games for the system)[[/labelnote]]. All three of these games also had ports on Windows PC. The second and third games in the series later got a CompilationReRelease in 2008 for the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} in ''The House of Dead 2 & 3 Return'' while ''III'' and ''4'' got re-released as downloadable games on the UsefulNotes/PlayStationNetwork in 2012.

A series of arcade {{light gun game}}s produced by Creator/{{Sega}}, starring [[SharpDressedMan finely dressed federal agents]] mowing down [[ZombieApocalypse armies of zombies]]. [[ExcusePlot Every game's story boils down to]]:

* CreatorProvincialism: The tutorial explains, even in the English-language versions, that one of the benefits of touch-type is so you can "leave work early and go to karaoke". While that might make sense in Japan, if you're playing the game in a country where English is the dominant language (such as the U.S.), post-work karaoke is probably not a very common pastime where you live. More confusingly, the game takes place in Europe, meaning that [[CreatorsCultureCarryover the game is applying Japanese work culture to a Western civilizaton]].

* [[{{Shareware}} Crippleware]]: The game's demo was time-limited; a big timer counted down from three minutes, and the game would quit once the timer reached zero. The hack-savvy player who used a memory location editor to freeze the timer would find out that the timer was the ''only'' thing crippling the game; with it out of the way, it was possible to play the game to the end.

** The fourth chapter in ''4'' has you fighting a very fat, building-sized zombie called Temperance that cannot be damaged at all. At best, Lisa and James can halt the monster's current attack cycle by draining its cancel meter. It chases you through the whole level and the level ends when the pair drop a giant clock on its head.

* NostalgiaLevel: The final two chapters are are the same as in ''2'', featuring the same set pieces and enemies (the cyborg zombies in Goldman's headquarters). Kate even paraphrases James' line from ''2'' ("It's almost like we're being invited in...", complete with a gaze around the lobby) when they step through the DBR Corporation doors (though this time a boss is waiting for them in the lobby). In a slight deviation, James and Kate go one floor ''below'' the [=50th=] floor to the [=49th=] floor on this trip, which is very Japanese-themed. However the ascent to Goldman's office is the same as it was in ''2'' and the end-boss is fought at the entrance to the DBR Corporation instead of on the roof.

** The stakes are high in the final chapter as Kate and James are trying to stop Goldman's nuclear missile strike, and furthermore James is injured due to The Star's LastDitchMove in the previous chapter's boss fight and having to be physically escorted by Kate. Then they arrive in a room with bright Japanese decor and Kate cracks the last joke in the game:

** The stages are high in the final chapter as Kate and James are trying to stop Goldman's nuclear missile strike, and furthermore James is injured due to The Star's LastDitchMove in the previous chapter's boss fight and having to be physically escorted by Kate. Then they arrive in a room with bright Japanese decor and Kate cracks the last joke in the game:

* GoshDangItToHeck: Inexplicably, "darn" and "heck" are littered throughout the dialogue, without any real profanity. One wonders if the ludicrously profane dialogue in ''Overkill'' was meant to make up for this.

** This was changed in the remake so that you get this ending if your score is lower than 62,000 points and the last digit of your score is zero, which ends up making it so you've essentially got a 50/50 chance to get this or the default ending if your score isn't a high score (doable if you set the difficulty into the hardest difficulty with classic scoring that doesn't include multi-kill combos, but pretty much nigh impossible to do in the easier difficulty, especially when continues doesn't reset the score to zero). Both ending account to the medal collection.

* MotiveRant: In between chapters, Goldman gives several about the consequences of mankind's arrogance and greed. [[spoiler:The final chapter reveals he was ranting during the events of ''2'', waiting for James and Gary's arrival.]]
--->'''Goldman:''' Earth has evolved in a way so that it naturally regulates the population of any given species. ''[slams fist on desk]'' Humans were once subject to this system, regardless of whether or not they knew it. ''[Grins as [[spoiler:James and Gary arrive and draw their guns]]]'' Pandora's Box is opening...

* GuideDangIt:
** Never does the game mention that shooting the propane tanks of the welder zombies acts like a grenade blast, nor the fact that Justice's attacks can be stopped by throwing a grenade into his mouth.