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Zombie Zombie cover

1984 · Spaceman Ltd, Sandy White, Angela Sutherland · Action · Arcade

Zombie Zombie

You are on a mission to kill zombies.

Released
15 September 1984
Platforms
ZX Spectrum
Genres
ActionArcadeZombie
Developers
Spaceman Ltd, Sandy White, Angela Sutherland
Publishers
Quicksilva
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
ActionHorrorSurvival
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

About

Zombie Zombie is a ZX Spectrum computer game developed by Spaceman Ltd (Sandy White and Angela Sutherland), published in 1984 by Quicksilva. It is a development of Spaceman's previous Ant Attack, and uses an updated "Softsolid 3D" isometric graphics engine.

Keywords

  • zombies

Media

Zombie Zombie screenshot 1

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

The player is alone in an ancient partially walled city infested with zombies. They must lure the zombies into following the player and then trick them into falling off the edge of tall structures more than three blocks high. The player must get close enough to the zombies to attract their attention into following them, but not so close as to be overwhelmed and become a zombie themselves.

Zombie Zombie includes a helicopter, which can be piloted and used to alter the architecture by lifting and dropping bricks.

Development

Zombie Zombie uses two-channel sound, a then unheard-of feat of a computer equipped with only single-channel 1-bit sound from a tiny speaker. Through the use of the Sinclair ZX Interface 1, the game's two-channel melodies could be played back on a MIDI-equipped synthesizer. Although a wiring diagram was supplied with the game, the interfacing code had been tested on a Yamaha DX7 with a ROM containing bugs and the circuit would only work on that particular synthesizer. This came to light when Sandy White attempted to demo the game while connected to an unfamiliar synthesizer.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Releases by platform
PlatformReleasedRegions
ZX Spectrum15 September 1984Europe

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