Ok, I got one for you. How would you like to play a game where you are a severed head of an ancient samurai who's on a mission to save the United States from the evil alien Darc Seed who's used his magnetic rays to turn the citizens into zombies? Well that and reclaim the sword Asura, which according to this game is the most powerful weapon ever (more so than nuclear bombs anyway). To top it all off, Darc Seed has animated the Statue of Liberty, turning our national treasure into a symbol of evil. That sounds like a block buster if I ever heard one!
Actually, it wasn't, but strangely this game does exist! Zombie Nation for the NES, released in 1990, is a side scrolling shooter along the lines of games like Gradius or R-Type, except it's bad. It's the kind of bad that makes you wonder who in their right mind would actually make this game and think they were going to make money with it.
You can pick amongst 4 stages and change their difficulties from easy to hard, though easy is almost impossible as this is one of those games where you have to play it a thousand times to memorize where everything is going to be. Enemies and objects come at you from all sides, and if you touch anything that looks like electricity you'll be reduced to one hit point. If you die your head smashes into the ground and a text bubble with japanese characters pops up. Awesome.
Should you find yourself curious enough to try it, be ready to play the same things over again and again. Also don't expect anything to ever make sense.
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