Zombies Ate My Neighbors -- Levels 22 and 23 (Bonus: The Son of Dr. Tongue)

So yeah, sorry for not continuing on with this after so long...I can scarcely imagine what it must be like for those precious few of you with subscriptions...maybe they show up as "new" after all the other newer subscription videos...which I'm sure if you're like me you click on right away, thus meaning there's no problem at all here, right?

I guess I'm not massively overenthusiastic about this game like I am those with amorphously cute jelly blobs that engulf balls and ball-shaped objects set to unusually upbeat music.

Anyway, we're finally back to a castle level...one that looks suspiciously like the one from the seventh level, but with vampires! There's also a bonus level in here.

Supposedly there's also a Flamethrower weapon that's only in the Super Nintendo version of the game (which this is) ...but in all our years of playing this game, we've never actually seen this. Perhaps I should do a little digging into the details and then see about trying to get ahold of it firsthand. Seems a little more...well...violent, than the rest of the arsenal...and not in the same comical way as using an oversized bazooka, chucking a football, firing a bubble gun, or hauling off and whaling on the forces of evil as a large purple beast of some sort.

Anyhow, the vampires...they're pretty tough cookies...and they're technically not "killed" just beaten into submission until they decide to flee...which is pretty rare among the various enemies in this game. They definitely still count as functionally defeated, since they fly offscreen and give you 2000 points for defeating one.

You know...something that always rather bugs me about this game's level intros and titles...they don't use any punctuation at all. So for example, there's no period on "Dr. Tongue"...and his name shows up at least a couple of times here and there, after all. Oh well, it's just something I noticed some time ago.

The bonus level contains a single unique victim, worth a whopping 10,000 points! See if you can't pick him out! The stage music does seem to be slightly at odds with everything but the one enemy that takes immediate center stage, doesn't it?

Oh, and for the record, the final stage in this video has pretty much one of the only truly impressive uses for the Martian bubble gun, it explodes giant ants on contact...I guess it makes sense that something of that sort cannot be put into a bubble with a human silhouette, but will instead be damaged by it. I wonder if they're really any good against boss creatures...I think they actually work on the football players, but that's silly and pointless even if it does.

The rare disembodied tentacle monsters are also hurt instead of imprisoned in bubbles, but I believe they only show up on the first bonus stage (which means you must have a bazooka or a beast potion by the end of the first stage) and possibly the stage after the game's final boss fight.

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[Overhazard]

The way the subscriptions work is that they typically show only the most recent video in the "New Videos" part or, if the amount of videos isn't too staggering since the last time you visit your subscriptions page, the last few videos. Stuff like this won't show up because you uploaded a lot of videos of this game all at once.

[YuuGiJoou]

Well, that makes sense, I just uploaded a lot of it in a row because my computer had a lot of time on its hands while I was at work...so it wasn't otherwise occupied.

Normally I don't have a series of videos quite as long as this one, though, so it only makes sense that I never ran into this problem before.

At any rate, it makes me that much more confident that playlists are the way to go if I want to make sure no videos get "lost" somewhere, and if somebody wants to watch, there they all are.

[sweetlorraine0]

Great job!!! I didn't pass level 23 by myself. I used up all the red jars, medicine kits and other useful stuff by then, so I was done pretty fast... Gotta try harder next time ;)

[AustinPowers234]

5:02 you lucky bastard lol

[jvgsjeff]

I love the music in this game.

[SocialAwkwardPenguin]

A tad late on this one, but you know the flamethrower was directly left of the secret level pickup.

[Overhazard]

By the way, "New Videos" are organized in reverse chronological order, so if some other subscribee uploads something between two of your videos, it will show up between those two. (Sometimes, they cause the videos that come before that one to not show up. The Subscription Center is a very strange bird; I don't understand it completely.)

The Sunset Riders stuff shows up in mine, but not the Zombies ones.

Playlists are also good for YouTube Beta. I might have to set up a lot more of them myself.