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Gamezzzz => Oozy Retro Goodness => Topic started by: topherama on June 06, 2007, 05:44:06 AM



Title: Zombies Ate My Neighbors and The Haunting
Post by: topherama on June 06, 2007, 05:44:06 AM
These have to be my two most favorite funny games of the early 90's...

What other game is there that gives you the reigns to scare the heck out of people to retain your health, and the better the tactics used, the more points you got?

What do you think?


Title: Re: Zombies Ate My Neighbors and The Haunting
Post by: Dr. Swank on June 06, 2007, 05:10:28 PM
These have to be my two most favorite funny games of the early 90's...

What other game is there that gives you the reigns to scare the heck out of people to retain your health, and the better the tactics used, the more points you got?

What do you think?

GOOD GOD YES! Haunting Starring Polterguy = BEST game on the Genesis and still in my top 20 of favoritestestest games. I actually reviewed it for SwankWorld around Halloween 2005 and had just as much fun with it as I did when I first played it. It was funny (http://swankworld.com/Games/retro/genesis/haunting/images/1.jpg), creative (http://swankworld.com/Games/retro/genesis/haunting/images/3.jpg) and it had blood, gore (http://swankworld.com/Games/retro/genesis/haunting/images/2.jpg), replay value, and people pissing themselves out of fear. It's a shame that game can't get a remake :(.

Zombies Ate My Neighbors was a fun little romp too. I loved the premise behind it...it was like an updated version of those levels in Blaster Master where you walked around. Plus, the whole 50's B-movie thing was pretty cool too. At the risk of making an inside reference that only ONE person here would get (and that's you Topher :P), that game was the closest thing anyone ever got to Neighborhood Wars.


Title: Re: Zombies Ate My Neighbors and The Haunting
Post by: topherama on August 31, 2007, 05:00:03 PM
Alas Neighborhood Wars, I still about thee in the wee hours of the morn....

I have got to find the rom for The Haunting! That was a great game!


Title: Re: Zombies Ate My Neighbors and The Haunting
Post by: Dr. Swank on September 03, 2007, 12:26:08 AM
Alas Neighborhood Wars, I still about thee in the wee hours of the morn....

I have got to find the rom for The Haunting! That was a great game!

Dude, I think Neighborhood Wars would make a great Live Arcade game nowadays. But hey, we can all dream.

And trust me, the ROM is out there if you look for it ;)