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Ultimate Zombies Ate My Neighbors came out on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993, developed by LucasArts. It was part of that wave of games that took familiar pop culture ideas and turned them into something playable, something you could pick up and immediately understand. The SNES had a lot of colorful, action-focused titles, and this one fit right in without trying to be the biggest or most serious game on the shelf.

You control either Zeke or Julie, two kids armed with a starter water pistol, running through neighborhoods, shopping malls, and castles to rescue your neighbors from a monster invasion. Your main goal is simple: find the victims before the monsters do, and keep them alive. The game plays out screen by screen, and you collect better weapons along the way, like soda-can grenades and bazookas. It’s fast, it’s difficult, and the levels are packed with hidden items and alternate routes. What sticks with you is the feeling of barely scraping by, saving one neighbor just as three more are about to be cornered.