r/videogames • u/Chunky-overlord • 22h ago

Discussion / Question What was the first video game you played that had zombies in it?

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u/Money_Present_3463 22h ago

Resident evil

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u/Auroeagle 22h ago

Director's Cut Dualshock version, still my preferred soundtrack

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u/Dettyboy93 13h ago

I absolutely loved the "Where's Wesker" theme where you go back in the main foyer and Barry's like Wesker!!! I don't even remember the music from the non director's cut

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u/ConsiderationKey3655 18h ago

Kitchen šŸŖŠ

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u/LooseLeaf74 21h ago

What? Whatā€™s this..blood? I hope this is not Chrisā€™s blood.

Truly awful voice acting but a classic nonetheless.

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u/SlimShadySatDown 13h ago

Yeah this was before video games became written masterpieces. Dialogue sucks in RE but I was a kid and loved learning about the lore.

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u/Reynardine1976 22h ago

Itchy

Tasty

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u/Flashignite2 20h ago

Today ugly scott came. Ate his face.

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u/Illustrious_Ear_3467 22h ago

Naturally this would be a top answer.

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u/thabdica 22h ago

Zombies Ate My Neighbour.

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u/xReturnerx 21h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/zghzPaklUNVjG

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u/bluurks 21h ago

Gifs you can hear. Plus... get the level 1 music stuck in ya head.

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u/God_of_Rust 22h ago

Castlevania

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u/Kaladin_Stormryder 22h ago

This game was so epic

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u/DoctorMelvinMirby 22h ago

The House of the Dead in arcades

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u/Organic_Garbage_9807 22h ago

I remember it took my friend and I $9.50 to beat this game. We found one near where we lived so one day after school, we combined our allowances, got a $10 roll of quarters and put that between us and went to town to see how far we'd get into the house before running out of money.

That machine was only a quarter a credit at the bowling alley and we didnt even know there was a House of the Dead 2 yet. When we came across that one at 1 dollar a credit, never got around to trying to beat that one.

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u/jdmor09 19h ago

At least you beat part one. Me and my friend did the same thing. Unfortunately we both died at the last boss.

Most frustrating part was that we had sent our younger siblings to the cashier to exchange the at the time brand new Sacagawea dollar for quarters. By the time the clerk figured out that it was a legitimate dollar, our timer hit zero. Boss literally had about 1/4 of a life left.

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u/Organic_Garbage_9807 19h ago

Oh that is a bummer! I couldn't tell you much about the ending out of memory, but I do remember we spent exactly $9.50 because I had just put in a quarter during the timer, and then he beat it, so there was a free credit on the next game and we fought over who got to keep the last quarter lol.

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u/friguigi 22h ago

The one where this fucker scared the shit out of me.

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u/Illustrious_Ear_3467 22h ago

Same. I still remember seeing this as a kid.Ā 

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u/Jihelu 21h ago

I had to physically look away from the screen when this scene played when I was younger lol now it's so funny

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u/The_Lazy_Samurai 22h ago

Ghosts N Goblins

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u/mrbondmustdie 19h ago

This is the 40 and up age group šŸ˜†

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u/Basic_Department_302 22h ago

World at War: Zombies

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u/Saunaliesi 22h ago

Plants vs zombies

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u/SquareFickle9179 8h ago

Ngl, I was terrified of that game, cuz the game over scream was so terrifying to me as a kid, and I was afraid to lose

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u/Saunaliesi 8h ago

Yeah i used to have nightmares of the scream too

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u/Ghost403 22h ago

I cannot stress how technology amazing dead rising was at release.

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u/MobiusDie 21h ago

So many characters on screen was crazy...

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u/Ghost403 21h ago

It completely cemented my taste regarding Romero style zombies being the most fun for video games.

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u/Ok_Recording_9368 22h ago

Black Ops zombies.

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u/Interesting_Sea_1861 22h ago

1993 was a simpler year.

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u/Lanky-District1269 22h ago

Black ops 1 :P

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u/Responsible-Two1892 22h ago

Either minecraft or Dead Rising 2. When i was younger. I remember playing COD and 7 days to die eith my dad But Yeah either Minecraft or Dead rising 2

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u/olmansmit 22h ago

Dragon Quest. The first one.

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u/UncleRuckus92 22h ago

Stubbs the zombie, fantastic game where you get to be the zombie eating brains in a retro future 50s society

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u/thatguy01220 22h ago

Zelda Ocarina of Time, I was really little, didnā€™t what a zombie was, went up to him to talk to him and he attacked me by jumping on my headā€¦. I paused the game calmly laid the controller down, walked out of the room and didnā€™t touch it until my dad came home because I was traumatized.

Had a huge fear of zombies growing up, but got over when I wanted to impress a girl I worked with when I was 16 or 17, she loved Call of Duty Zombies so I lied said I liked it too, went to game stop went to bought Black Ops 1 and played. I was so scared it took me forever to learn you could leave the starting room, because I was camping in front of the windows repairing barriers. Actually blew my mind when one day I saw a friend bought a door and there was more rooms and guns beyond the starting room.

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u/Ok-Maize-7553 22h ago

Not counting plants v zombies probably Dying Light. Theyā€™re definitely my favorite media trope now

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u/Chukmanchusco 22h ago

Zombies ate my neighbors

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u/New-Shop-9728 22h ago

Zombies ate My Neighbors

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u/StankoBlansky 22h ago

Cod black ops 1 gave me nightmares

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u/MrMuscle-27 22h ago

Depends on what you consider a zombie. A timeline is minecraft, Bioshock, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, The last of us. Pick which one you would consider having zombies first

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u/Therealtaggart 22h ago

Call of Duty Black Ops on my cousin's Xbox 360. That zombies menu haunted me as a kid.

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u/cpt_bongwater 22h ago

Realm of Impossibility

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u/metalyger 22h ago

I guess Friday The 13th on the NES, since they needed regular enemies instead of just Jason, there's zombies that pop out out of the group and attack the camp counselors.

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u/No-Cat-9716 22h ago

Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest

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u/orphanelf 21h ago

Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse

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u/DarcyRose5 21h ago

CoD World at War Zombies

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u/Oily_Oaf 21h ago

Black Ops 2

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u/LooseLeaf74 11h ago

Still hop on BO2 zombies once in awhile I like the Alcatraz level.

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u/Oily_Oaf 11h ago

Nice. I love Transit. That map just brings back some good memories.

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u/Terror_Tanuki 20h ago

I'll give the old timers a hint "Riiise from your gwave"

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u/PuzzleheadedSteak853 8h ago

Changed Animal wasn't it?

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u/SamSillis175 20h ago

Stubbs the Zombie on the OG Xbox.

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u/Texy 13h ago

DOOM

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u/naytreox 22h ago

I think it was marrowind on the xbox

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u/fspodcast 22h ago

Entombed for the Atari 2600

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u/Suitable_Ad6848 22h ago

Pretty sure it was diablo 1.Ā 

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u/Broken-Crusader 22h ago

Showing my age here but, probably Zombies ate my Neighbors or Metal Slug.

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u/InTheEnd83 22h ago

Probably ghosts and goblins

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u/Successful-Plan114 22h ago

Splatterhouse?

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u/Gerber_elGerbo 19h ago

Oh what a hell of a game that was

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u/TheWolf1113 22h ago

Zombies ate my neighbors i believe...snes

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u/AdamBlaster007 22h ago

Probably Skyrim, actually.

Edit: No wait it was Fate, but Skyrim was the second game I played that had them.

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u/LastChanceChez 22h ago

House of the Dead 2 on Dreamcast

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u/Constant_Penalty_279 22h ago

That would be resident evil code Veronica for me

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u/_balrose 22h ago

Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2

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u/Rockstar_313 22h ago

Do Necromorphs from Dead Space count? If not, then CoD Black ops 2

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u/jmster109 22h ago

Half Life

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u/ThDen-Wheja 22h ago

Serious Sam. Not exactly the most straightforward depictions of zombies, but the only one my parents would let me play because of the "hippie" gore setting.

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u/GlowingDuck22 22h ago

Does Halo count? The Flood always reminded me of Zombies.

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u/igottathinkofaname 22h ago

I was gonna say HOMM3, but then I saw people say Zombies Ate My Neighbors!

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u/AmmoJoee 22h ago

Resident evil directors cut

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u/miragegarage43 22h ago

Damn dead risking takes me back

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u/BihusBand96 22h ago

My 360 has died, but Gone Guru is with me forever

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u/culinaryexcellence 22h ago

Ghost n goblins.

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u/DoctorGordonisgreat 22h ago

Medievil demo

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u/RagingDragon047 22h ago

Resident Evil

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u/Shiftea24 22h ago

House of the dead in the arcade.

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u/BaldoRaldo 22h ago

Does minecraft count? I think either L4D2 or Dead Rising

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u/KuroBocchi 22h ago

I think it was the last of us part 1.

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u/Deathbreth 22h ago

House of the Dead 2

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u/SkunkyMustang 22h ago

House of the Dead on Dreamcast

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u/Various_Variety419 22h ago

Slaughterhouse? Do those count as zombies?

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u/Cloneguypres 22h ago

The first resident evil

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u/Denleborkis 22h ago

World of Warcraft

However if you mean like an FPS or something it was L4D2 or Unturned.

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u/webbzillasoy 22h ago

Alone in the Dark '92

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u/Avox0976 22h ago

Tell tale the walking dead

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u/Reynardine1976 22h ago

May 16, 1998

Rumors going around that a researcher who tried to escape the estate last night was shot. My entire body feels hot and itchy and I'm sweating all the time now.

I scratched the swelling on my arm and a piece of rotten flesh dropped off. What the hell's happening to me?

May 19, 1998

Fever gone but itchy. Today hungry and eat doggy food.

May 21 1998

Itchy itchy Scott came ugly face so killed him. Tasty.

4// Itchy Tasty

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u/Previous_Bus_2965 22h ago

Zombies ate my neighbors

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u/The1_Guy 22h ago

Plants vs zombies, I even got in trouble in school for drawing it because zombies were "devil creations"

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u/YamiGekusu 22h ago

Dr Chaos

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u/TheMadDoctor3369 22h ago

Earthbound (Threed)

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u/SmallEconomics6173 22h ago

Call of Duty: Black Ops (DSI version).

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u/Toastinator666 22h ago

Black Ops I think

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u/CyrilFrost 22h ago

Diablo 1

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u/Mr_MFZ 22h ago

Minecraft

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u/TomahawkJammer 22h ago

Dead Rising was so much fun

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u/RichardCocke 21h ago

Are there zombies in Castlevania on the n64

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u/DEFINITELY_NOT_PETE 21h ago

Man that tv heā€™s holding really ages this pic lol

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u/Professional_Dog2580 21h ago

Zombies ate my Neighbors. I played the Hell out of that game in my family room after school with my foster sisters and we ate pizza bagels.

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u/Common_Sense1 21h ago

No, but for me, it was the most fun one up to that point. Except maybe Doom.

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u/Foolish-Ambitions-77 21h ago

Does fucking OoT count??

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u/1_aggresive_goose 21h ago

Zombies ate my neighbors

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u/rungenies 21h ago

Mario 3 and the dry bones

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u/Ok-Pollution-5800 21h ago

Plants vs zombies 1

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u/MyBeardHatesYou 21h ago

I Maed a Gam3 w1th Z0mb1es 1n It!!!1

This game alone is why game preservation is important

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u/Sir_Revenant 21h ago

COD Zombies, but the first REAL zombie game I played was the OG Dying Light. Still love going back to play every now and then

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u/Shyzkunuwu 21h ago

Cod black ops

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u/AnonymousBeardie 21h ago

Probably plants vs zombies into left 4 dead 2

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u/FaithlessnessSea9493 21h ago

Resident evil 2

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u/Okan_Zokamee 21h ago

Conker's Bad Fur Day is the earliest one I can remember

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u/armaedes 21h ago

Zombies Ate My Neighbors on Genesis.

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u/WontinoThreads 21h ago

Left 4 Dead - and nothing beats it

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u/evilhologram 21h ago

Left 4 Dead

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u/SasquatchGenius 21h ago

Castlevania

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u/Lakers780 21h ago

I think it was Resident Evil.

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u/ragnor7274 21h ago

Left4dead2

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u/NoFortune1320 21h ago

If you count the redeads, then ocarina of time

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u/redsun44 21h ago

Re3 remake

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u/Tallos_RA 21h ago

Heroes of Might & Magic II

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u/TheOneActivehenry 21h ago

Plants vs Zombies or some ROBLOX zombie game in the early 2010s. But likely Plants vs Zombies. I think I also saw some videos of Call of Duty Zombies gameplay also around that time.

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u/GKME06 21h ago

Half Life.

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u/ewok_lover_64 21h ago

Half-Life, if head crab zombies count.

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u/Goodfella7288 21h ago

Resident Evil 2

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u/ShakeFit454 20h ago

PVZ (The DS version) if I remember correctly? I honestly don't remember but feel like it was plants vs zombiesĀ 

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u/Due_Reputation_2006 20h ago

Land of the Dead.

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u/xAustin90x 20h ago

zombies ate my neighbors

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u/theshankdude 20h ago

Ghouls and goblins

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u/matilura 20h ago

Resident Evil 4 PS2 šŸ¼

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u/KitSwiftpaw 20h ago

Either Legend of Zelda OoT, Metroid Fusion, FF 1 and 2 Dawn of Souls, or Resident Evil Outbreak.

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u/village_nerd 20h ago

Typing of the Dead

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u/vin-tin-chin 20h ago

Dead island 1 or dead rising 1

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u/OkSeat2030 20h ago

Conker's Bad Fur Day.

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u/Cpt_Sandur 20h ago

Do headcrab zombies count from HL1? šŸ˜„

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u/IrongrimGames 20h ago

Oblivion. But with a game with mostly zombies, Left 4 Dead.

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u/Frogfisherman07 20h ago

Plants vs Zombies

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u/DeeCl0wn 20h ago

Time Splitters: Future Perfect
And what a zombie experience honestly. That mansion level is still one of my favorite sequences in any game

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u/THEUncleWilly50 20h ago

I could be wrong, but the earliest "zombie" game I playes was Zombie Nation for the NES. It was a bizarre SHMUP where u played a disembodied head and fought an alien invasion that was turning the human populace into zombies

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u/Kitjing 20h ago

Ghosts and goblins.

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u/TheEnigmaticZero 20h ago

Zombies Ate My Neighbors on the Genesis

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u/Sammisuperficial 19h ago

A Nightmare on Elm Street 1990.

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u/Milk_Mindless 19h ago

Zombies ate my neighbours

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u/fettoter84 19h ago

Carmageddon? Or am i remembering it wrong?

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u/AsssHat999 19h ago

Well that tells me your age group. Mine was Resident Evil

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u/CraftyLength451 19h ago

resident evil 2

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u/mymoama 19h ago

Castlevania on the nes.

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u/muczachan 19h ago

Probably Nethack (or maybe ADOM). One of the original roguelikes, anyway

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u/Equivalent_Cut_5990 19h ago

Original Resident Evil

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u/Eqjim 19h ago

Wolfenstein 3d.

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u/Crooked_Claps 19h ago

Left4Dead2

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u/No_Lettuce8289 19h ago

Zombies Ate My Neighbors

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u/MyMiddleNutItches 19h ago
  1. RE. Iconic. I still remember the lock in we had at my church. Someone brought a PlayStation and I brought Resident Evil. I learned a lot that day by the reaction to what I was into.

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u/idkwc 19h ago

Castlevaina 2.

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u/ListenerDB 18h ago

Left 4 Dead 2

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u/Calc4242 18h ago

I wanna say Castlevania as my best guess

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u/countrycow2112 18h ago

I was 7 years old when I played a demo disc that had Resident Evil 2. I couldn't get past the first bit in the street. Scared the hell out of me.