Contemplating how exhausting Zombies Ate My Neighbors could possibly be, it’s no shock extra individuals don’t know concerning the secret George Lucas cameo.
Zombies Ate My Neighbors is likely to be the best horror online game ever. It’s not scary within the conventional sense however no different sport higher performed off of our favourite horror tropes and characters – all with out getting slapped with an insane quantity of lawsuits. These evil dolls? Yeah, they’re Chucky. That chainsaw-wielding dude within the hockey masks? Yup, that’s Jason, though Mrs. Voorhees’ child boy by no means used one. From there, we’ve acquired vampires, werewolves, reptilian males, aliens, large creatures, pod individuals, blobs, and extra operating round neighborhoods, buying malls, factories, pyramids, castles, and wherever else you’ve already seen in traditional horror flicks. However one determine that pops up at random isn’t precisely identified for horror flicks – and that’s George Lucas, whose LucasArts developed the sport.
Lots of people don’t know this, however George Lucas truly has a cameo in Zombies Ate My Neighbors, showing within the stage “Monsters Among Us”, categorized as a “credit level” because it’s revealed solely after you defeat the sport’s ultimate boss, Dr. Tongue. However there he’s, as this stage is ready within the places of work of LucasArts, the corporate that developed Zombies Ate My Neighbors. So why don’t extra individuals find out about this cameo? Properly, as a result of the sport is insanely exhausting! Heck, I’ve performed the sport on and off since Konami launched it again in 1993 and nonetheless haven’t conquered it with out codes (rattling you, Snakeoids!). Whereas I did come throughout the extent by means of roms and found the cameo years in the past, we have now to present credit score to Laser Time for giving us proof.
Sadly for some, you possibly can’t use your water pistol, weed-whacker or magical crucifix towards Lucas, as he’s simply a part of the surroundings and – as in actual life, in all probability – unkillable. So what’s he as much as? After you save the vacationers snapping footage of him, he tells the characters, “Welcome to LucasArts Games and now get back to work.”
Getting again to work not solely entails saving your neighbors but additionally taking time to scope out every little thing and all people inside the partitions, that are lined in cobwebs. Taking a stroll round, we see assistant animators, musicians (Joe McDermott and George Sanger), artists (key LucasArts determine and later Pixar worker Steve Purcell), and even the pinnacle of LucasArts Kelly Flock – no, actually, it’s his large floating head watching over the studio! One worker even has his personal head on the physique of a canine, somewhat nod to 1978’s Invasion of the Physique Snatchers. With all of that happening — particularly in a stage that most individuals won’t ever play — you need to respect the (dr.) tongue-in-cheek devotion.
Did you play Zombies Ate My Neighbors? How far did you make it?
