🎮 [Retro Game] - ✨ 👽 🔫 Cosplay Closet: Julie, of "Zombie Ate My Neighbors" 🔫 👽 ✨ / @Archdruid Gaming Contest [Gaming Decades: The 90s] 💕 👌 - By: @Tesmoforia.

“Cosplay Closet” is a recurrent activity between amateurs, and a frequent one between “professionals” to wisely decide in which projects invest their time and effort.

This precious cartridge arrived to my hands between 1996 and 1997 (I was barely 6/7 years old), and I can completely affirm that there isn’t any single thing I dislike in this game, I love everything!, I had never gotten bored of playing it over and over again, and I don’t think a day where I get tired of its levels will ever arrive.

I owe a lot of happy childhood moments to this game, and it was the game who almost miraculously (along "Contra III" and "Metal Slug" ) helped my brother and me to get along in a better way, since we would fight a lot when we were children (knife battling to death), but sitting down in front of the SNES and choosing this cartridge, guide us to share and be more considered with each other, willingly and without needing "THE CHANCLA" of our grandma as fair intermediary and pacifier.

How did it happen?, well, "Zombie ate my Neighbors" is an exceptionally difficult game, getting across the levels requires a constant process of trial and error, where both players shall wisely share the items in order to protect and support each other (in this game, being selfish with your teammate only leads to a miserable death sooner than later).

This is a cooperative game, where each protagonist is individually controlled by each player, so it will be better to be synchronized or at least run in the same direction while you go (with a lot of panic) through the map.

The protagonists are Zeke and Julie (who as Wikipedia says, are siblings), they are going to be your avatars across each level with the mission of saving the victims (who are totally oblivious of their current situation until the imminent death is right in front of them) of each scenery; these people are usually in places difficult to reach and don’t change location, they don’t run or move from their places (is good to warn that when they die, you will notice it by hearing a horrible scream, don’t feel bad if the scream makes you jump out of your chair).

Many are the types of monsters that will be presented to you and the difficulty of each level will depend on them, since it would be almost impossible to get away from them while you go through each labyrinthine scenario; sometimes monsters will be slow, and some others will be too fast, some are very resistant and others even more resistant to be killed.

Once you rescue (or lose) all the victims in a level, a dimensional door will open to take you to the next scenario. The more victims you rescue, the higher your score will be, and those points will become in especial Bonuses and extra lives (lives that will be much needed, since there weren’t continues or "saving game" in the original "ZAMN").

Controls are very intuitive, and your life will depend on 2 kinds of objects: Weapons, and utility objects, like first aid kits to restore life, antidotes to get invulnerable, potions to transform into a Furry Purple Hulk, or even opening "little Pandora’s boxes" to save yourself whenever you are totally surrounded.

Something that it’s really addictive of the game is how many kinds of weapons and items there are in order to defend and support. The more you progress, the more kinds of weapons you will accumulate, some of those are only available in specific settings and there’s only 1 of their kind. None is infinite, and they need to be recharged frequently.

Also, the effectiveness of each weapon is different for each monster. For example, Werewolves are weak against the silverware, Martians to the tomatoes, and the insane people with chainsaw, to the fire extinguisher and bazookas.

"Zombies Ate my Neighbors" is a game that has counted with several releases (6 in total) with versions for Sega Mega Drive de Sega (September 24th, 1993), Super NES of Nintendo (September 24th, 1993) and now it’s also available in the Wii Store (October 26th, 2009).

Developed, produced and directed by Lucas Arts, it was originally published by Konami, as a comical tribute to the horror and cult movies between 1950, and 1980

The music of the game (composed by George Alistair Sanger ) is, to my sincere opinion, especially noticeable: Each tune is fun, a bit hilarious, but always as a reference to the B-class movies, with sound effects that make each one of them into something unforgettable.

One of the many points that transform this tittle into a jewel is how all the names of the levels are references or ingenious parodies that can be recognized and enjoyed with even the slightest knowledge.

1. Zombie Panic (Bonus Level: Day of the Tentacle)
2. Evening of the Undead
3. Terror in Aisle Five
4. Lumberjack Hedgemaze Mayhem
5. Weird Kids on the Block
6. Pyramid of Fear
7. Dr. Tongue's Castle of Terror
8. Titanic Toddler
9. Toxic Terrors (Bonus Level: Mushroom Men)
10. No Assembly Required
11. Weeds Gone Bad
12. Mars Needs Cheerleaders (Bonus Level: Cheerleaders Versus the Monsters)
13. Chopping Mall
14. Seven Meals for Seven Zombies
15. Dinner on Monster Island
16. Ants
17. Office of the Doomed (Bonus Level: Someplace Very Warm)
18. Squidmen of the Deep
19. Nightmare on Terror Street
20. Invasion of the Snakeoids
21. The Day the Earth Ran Away
22. Revenge of Dr. Tongue (Bonus Level: The Son of Dr. Tongue)
23. The Caves of Mystery
24. Warehouse of the Evil Dolls
25. Look Who's Shopping
26. Where the Red Fern Growls
27. Dances With Werewolves
28. Mark of the Vampire
29. Zombie House Party
30. The Horror of Floor Thirteen
31. Look Who's Coming to Dinner
32. Giant Ant Farm
33. Fish and Crypts (Bonus Level: Curse of the Pharaohs)
34. I Was a Chainsaw Maniac
35. Boardwalk of Terrors
36. Monster Phobia
37. Labyrinth of Horrors
38. Monsters of the Blue Lagoon
39. Destroy All Vampires
40. Pyramid of Fear Two
41. Martians Go Home!
42. Spikes
43. Super Fund Cleanup Site
44. The Curse of Dr. Tongue
45. Danger in Picnic Park
46. Day of the Chainsaw
47. Gridiron Terror
48. Curse of the Tongue (Credit Level: Monsters Among Us)

In total, there are around 55 levels to go through, but 6 of them are secret levels or Bonus; the last one is an especial level dedicated to the credits, with its own Boss, in which you can greet the game production team, and see the very same George Lucas.

Each level is totally ingenious, and with its own details, little tricks and secrets. Many times you will put a lot of you to the maximum since the very beginning so when you reach the "hell like" levels (like "Invasion of the Snakeoids" and "Destroy All Vampires") you won’t get out easily of them without just a string of life and an empty storage.

To finish and bringing back the topic of "Cosplay Test" of Julie, I’m very happy of doing it (originally it was going to be just a couple of selfies, and that’s why I have pants instead of shorts) cause I have experimented a rush of nostalgia, and I’m really motivated to adding it to my future Cosplays list.

It has been very refreshing to do something simple and easy-going, since all my life I have been taking Cosplay really seriously, and I’m especially critical (and even derogatory) with myself. The effect Steemit has had in my personality and self-esteem is really big (despite I’m not really sharing my Cosplay Works in here), I don’t feel the pressure that everything shall look perfect to be shown.

P.S: I know the contest was until July 14th (yesterday), but before being able to post this entry, there was an electrical power down on my zone and I went out of electricity (and zero battery on my laptop) until today; I know rules must be the same for all, but I didn’t want to simply discard this post after so much effort and love ; 7 ; please don’t scold me, I’m just a little strawberry.