A European Krisalis Zombies platform-puzzler, cute and tactical. Funny, original, little-known.
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Category
Action Adventure2 players12+
Co-op
Description
A soldier battles zombies and monsters in this Sega Mega Drive action game. Published by Sega, released in Europe in 1993. Third-person action-adventure with a soldier battling zombie hordes, varied weapons and film-inspired Zombies levels.
Zombies review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
3/5
Music
★★★★★
"Memorable"
2/5
Story
★★★★★
"Classic"
The game recycles with relish the whole imagery of cheap horror films: undead in suits, werewolves, murderous dolls, aliens, carnivorous plants. The suburban, supermarket and water-park scenery is seen from above and drawn in garish colours, running against the grain of the subject.
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
Q1 damagedQ6 completeQ10 new
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Collector interest
Zombies PAL is the European edition of the LucasArts/Konami game, the PAL version of Zombies Ate My Neighbors with a shortened name for age-classification constraints. Its collector value comes from this unique European naming and from the fact that the PAL version remains the only official European release of the LucasArts horror-parody game.
Better with friends
A deranged top-down survival where two heroes save neighbors menaced by an army of B-movie horror monsters. Mutual aid is vital: sharing the zany weapons and covering each other while one frees a hostage makes all the difference. Packed with offbeat humor, it turns panic into shared laughter, and finishing a level together brings a complicit joy you want to extend.
Is Zombies still worth playing in 2026?
A cooperative action by LucasArts, Zombies Ate My Neighbors offers a horror humorous adventure where two heroes save neighbours from hordes of B horror monsters. The cartoon art direction paying tribute to classic horror films, two player cooperative mode and richness of the fifty five levels make it an absolutely unmissable gem of the Mega Drive catalogue. For anyone fond of humorous horror games or seeking an excellent cooperative game on the Sega console, an absolutely essential recommendation today still truly here indeed.
