History VideoGame / ZombiesAteMyNeighbors

* HockeyMaskAndChainsaw: Par for the course, the chainsaw maniacs are a hybrid of Jason from ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' and Leatherface from ''Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''.

** One of the bosses, Titantic Toddler, is, well, a gigantic baby, who can stomp you flat or shoot milk out of its bottle at you. It becomes a normal (and rescuable) baby upon defeat.

A movie based loosely on the game is currently in production. [[http://www.slashfilm.com/horrorcomedy-zombies-ate-neighbors-development-based-90s-video-game/ Seriously.]]

** The game's password system is badly flawed to the point of being broken and useless. This is because you will always start off with only 150 water pistol ammo and 1 heath kit. So the farther you go by entering a password, the more severe and unpleasant your starting situation will be. And given the extreme difficulty of the final level, it's completely impossible to win without cheating since you simply won't have enough weapons, ammo, and items for the final boss.

* InfantImmortality: {{Averted}}, oddly enough. Not only are babies one of the kinds of victims, but you also fight a Giant Baby as a boss three times. Defeating the latter merely turns it back to normal, though.

* CombatTentacles: One enemy type is just Purple Tentacle from DayOfTheTentacle.

* TheresNoBInMovie: Pretty much the premise of the game.

* UnwinnableByMistake: Very rare, but it is possible to get yourself stuck by running out of ammo for all your guns and wasting all the keys and not having a bazooka or potion to blast the doors down.

** One gun from ''Ghoul Patrol'' gives you homing energy or spirit bullets.

* AlienKudzu: The Red Weed from ''War of the Worlds'' is an enemy type. It's featured in the stage "Where the Red Fern Growls." They are absolutely powerless if you have a weed whacker.

* AncientTomb: At least one level was a massive Egyptian pyramid full of mummies.

** Two words: Titanic Toddler.
** Giant snakes boss, Dr. Tongue's Giant spider form, and the level where giant ants are the normal enemies.

%%* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever

* BigBad: A mad scientist named Dr. Tounge is responsible for the whole madness.

* BlobMonster: Recurring monsters. They’re weak against [[KillItWithIce popsicles]]. An obvious ShoutOut to ''Film/TheBlob1958''.
* BonusLevel: About six of them. Five of them are accessed by collecting a ? square in a level, while the last one requires all ten victims to be saved in Level 12.
* BossInMookClothing: The vampires and the Frankenstein's monsters, mostly due to their high health. The former can also teleport, while the latter fires numerous bouncing projectiles. The Lumberjacks could count as a WolfpackBoss version of this, as they have high health too.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: The game was released in Europe as simply ''Zombies''. Also, the chainsaw maniacs became lumberjacks with axes.
* BubbleGun: The Martians ray guys that trap the victim in a bubble.
* ChainsawGood: Level 4. The chainsaw maniacs/lumberjacks in general.
* ClownCarGrave: Some levels have open graves that spew zombies.
* CombatTentacles: Level 1-B [[spoiler: and the Credits Level]].

* CreepyDoll: The killer doll enemies; some marketing genius had the idea to give them [[AxCrazy axes]], too...
* CuttingTheKnot: Keys are limited and doors are aplenty, but if you got ammo left for your bazooka, you can blast down specific walls to bypass the doors and save your uses of keys.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The sequel took itself far more seriously and wasn't as arcade-fun as the first.
* DecoyDamsel: In some levels the tourist neighbors will turn into werewolves when approached. Generally, saving tourists before they turn into werewolves is a TimedMission.

* HockeyMaskAndChainsaw: Par for the course, Psychos are a hybrid of Jason from ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' and Leatherface from ''Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Squirt guns, dinner plates, cans of soda, fire extinguishers, weedwhackers, tomatoes ... all of which are [[LethalJokeItem surprisingly effective, too]].
* InNameOnly: ''Ghoul Patrol'' was reworked into a sequel for ''Zombies'' to cash in on the game's popularity.

* InvincibilityPowerUp: Drinking a "monster potion", regardless of the character you're playing, transforms you into a big purple beast that's [[NighInvulnerability impervious to damage]], and comes with a very powerful fist attack.

* LightningBruiser: Half the enemies in the game are lightning bruisers! Werewolves, spiders, evil dolls, the squidmen when they're under water, all the bosses, the vampires, even the damn MUMMIES are surprisingly fast and can make getting to certain victims nearly impossible.
* LogicalWeakness: You can count on common knowledge to figure out enemies' weaknesses. Use the crucifix against the vampires, for instance, and the weed whacker against the Red Weed.

* MundaneUtility: Bazookas are as good of a door-opener/wall-smasher as they are weapons!

** The Son of Doctor Tongue only appears in his eponymous BonusLevel.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Inverted with Zeke and Julie's squirt guns, although Zeke's gun is technically red.

* SequentialBoss: The final battle with Dr. Tongue has him first transform into a spider, then a giant head.

* TomboyishBaseballCap: Julie. She demoted in ''Ghoul Patrol'', though.

* SkewedPriorities: When you save the grilling neighbor, you get 105 points: 5 for the neighbor and 100 for the burger he's cooking.

* BlackBlood: The red blood that oozes down the screen when you get a GameOver is recolored purple in the Super Nintendo release.

* EveryTenThousandPoints: You get a bonus neighbor. If you don't have any dead neighbors, you get a extra life. If you have max lives (six), you get a "Perfect Player" bonus... which is [[BraggingRightsReward even more points]].

* NonstandardGameOver: If you let all of your neighbors die, the game immediately ends regardless of how many lives you have.

''Zombies Ate My Neighbors'' is your classic Zombie game created by Creator/LucasArts and published by Konami. Scores of B-movie monsters, from the eponymous [[FleshEatingZombie zombies]] to stock [[WolfMan werewolves]], [[{{Mummy}} mummies]], [[HockeyMaskAndChainsaw chainsaw maniacs]], and even weirder and more obscure beasties, have overrun suburbia, and two ordinary teens must race through maze-like levels to rescue all the neighbors before the monsters catch them. Huge levels, lots and lots of enemies, creative weapons, and tons of B-movie references abound. This game is basically a parody of ''Devil World/Dark Adventure'', a previous Konami arcade game, and in turn had a Spiritual Successor in the form of ''Ghoul Patrol'', which was significantly less popular. Also inspired a later game loosely on Myth/ClassicalMythology called ''VideoGame/HercsAdventures'' as well as the UsefulNotes/XBox360 game ''VideoGame/MonsterMadness''.

** Each and every boss of ''Ghoul Patrol'' counts, from a monster Robocop thing to a giant, flying samurai, knight and pirate. They also animate in Mode 7 and look pretty cool when you destroy them.

* BlobMonster: Recurring monsters. They’re weak against [[KillItWithIce popstickels]]. An obvious ShoutOut to ''Film/TheBlob1958''.
* BonusLevel: About six of them. All but one are accessed by collecting a ? square in a level. There last one requires all ten victims to be saved in Level 12.
* BossInMookClothing: The vampires and the Frankenstein's monsters, mostly due to their high health. The former can also teleport, while the latter fires numerous bouncing projectiles. The Lumberjacks could count as a WolfpackBoss version of this, a they have high health too.

* CreepyDoll: The killer doll enemies; some marketing genius had the idea to give them {{ax|Crazy}}es, too...

* EveryTenThousandPoints: You get a bonus neighbor. If you don't have any dead neighbors, you get a extra life. If you have max lives (six), you get a "Perfect Player" bonus. Which is [[BraggingRightsReward even more points]].
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: As a big B-movie loving video game, of course the zombies get the title.

* InfantImmortality: {{Averted|Trope}}, oddly enough. Not only are babies one of the kinds of Victims, but you also fight a Giant Baby as a boss three times. Defeating the latter merely turns it back to normal, though.

* InvincibilityPowerUp: Drinking a "monster potion", regardless of the character you're playing, transforms you into a big purple beast [[NighInvulnerability impervious to damage]] and comes with a very powerful fist attack.

* MundaneUtility: Bazookas are as good as door-openers/wall-smasher as they are weapons!

** The game has [[LightningBruiser Fast, Tough and mean enemies,]] [[RespawningEnemies Many of which respawn infinitely.]] Add a few [[ScrappyMechanic Scrappy Mechanics,]] and a [[ContinuingIsPainful password system that resets your item and weapons,]] you have a game that is well-deserving of the title.

* PoisonMushroom: One of the mystery potion's side effects is to turn you into Mr. Hyde, who will actively hunt down and kill neighbors. Or your partner in a 2 player mode.

* {{Ungrateful B|astard}}itch / NoHeroDiscount / NoSympathy: No matter how often you rescue them from mortal danger, the teachers will ''always'' give you an "F"! [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And teachers are only worth 10 points when rescued.]]

''Zombies Ate My Neighbors'' is your classic Zombie game created by Creator/LucasArts and published by Konami. Scores of B-movie monsters, from the eponymous [[FleshEatingZombie zombies]] to stock [[WolfMan werewolves]], [[{{Mummy}} mummies]], [[HockeyMaskAndChainsaw chainsaw maniacs]], and even weirder and more obscure beasties, have overrun suburbia, and two ordinary teens must race through maze-like levels to rescue all the neighbors before the monsters catch them. Huge levels, lots and lots of enemies, creative weapons, and tons of B-movie references abound. This game is basically a parody of ''Devil World/Dark Adventure'', a previous Konami arcade game, and in turn had a Spiritual Successor in the form of ''Ghoul Patrol'', which was significantly less popular. Also inspired a later game loosely on Myth/ClassicalMythology called ''VideoGame/HercsAdventures'' as well as the XBox 360 game ''VideoGame/MonsterMadness''.

* NonstandardGameOver: If you let all of your neighbors die, the game immediately ends regardless of how many lives you have

* NonstandardGameOver: Don't let all of your neighbors die!

* WeaksauceWeakness: Many of the monsters have a particular weapon type that is exceptionally lethal to them, allowing you to OneShot some enemies with the appropriate item. For example, Tomatoes are extremely toxic to Martians.

** The best weapon in the game, the Flamethrower, is a GuideDangIt in itself since it's in a very obscure place and can be LostForever if you bypass it. (And it's only in the SNES version).

* LostForever:
** The Flamethrower is easy to miss on the one level it appears on, it's also only in the SNES version.
** The Son of Doctor Tongue only appears in his eponymous BonusLevel.

* NintendoHard: The game has [[LightningBruiser Fast, Tough and mean enemies,]] [[RespawningEnemies Many of which respawn infinitely.]] Add a few [[ScrappyMechanic Scrappy Mechanics,]] and a [[ContinuingIsPainful password system that resets your item and weapons,]] you have a game that is well-deserving of the title.