Today we continue our examination of Great Moments in Zombie History with your curator @Zombologist. right about now you might be asking yourself what qualifies Zombologist for that title? How does one get a PHD in Zombology?
In college, I majored in Micro-Biology and Anthropology. On one of my excursions into the heart of the South American rainforests, I discovered an indigenous group of people who swore to me they were experiencing a series of attacks from seemingly reanimated individuals. When I went out into the woods to track them, I found myself surrounded. From reading books and watching movies, I had a fairly good sense of the way a zombie acts and smells. The next three years held some of the most unpleasent yet informative moments of my life. Living amongst them, acclimating to their habits and learning to hunt with them as a horde changed my life.
So if you still don’t believe I’m qualified to mark these momentous occasions of Undead History, I challenge you to go live three years amongst the Zeds and see what you write about.
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You can barely hear Ellis shouting at you over all the screaming. It’s echoing all over the room, spaced out with bursts of gunfire or the bass boom of the shotguns. How did it come to this? Coach is off grabbing pills, always complaining about that bum knee of his, and you can’t help feeling bad for taking a crack at Rochelle after she saved your ass from that jockey.
This could be any one of several scenarios you step into when you fire up Left 4 Dead 2. While most people were complaining that Left 4 Dead 2 was going to be more like an addon to the first installment, I worried about whether or not I would like these characters. So much of that game is stepping into the shoes of the people I control (that is, after all, a common theme in Valve games). So it’s refreshing that these characters are likeable, believable and quotable at times.
One of the things I admire most is the way the dialogue changes depending on the situation. Frantic screaming might accompany a huge flood of zombies breaking through a doorway, for instance. Wisecracks add color to the world through the culture of the characters. All of this adds up to you caring about the people you are playing through the eyes of.
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Scooby Doo, where are you!? Killin’ and eating zombies of course…
Threadless has always been known to producing cool shirts by unknown artists and they continue this cool tradition by releasing a Scooby Doo parody shirt titled “We Got Some Work to Do Now” by Travis Pitt. Travis’ bitchin’ design features our favorite nerd Velma and Scooby draw with a hint of realisim. Apparently, these two are the sole survivors of the zombie apocalypse as Velma is decked out with a shotgun and machete to cut down any undead that she sees through her thick rimmed glasses. There is no sign of the rest of the gang so it is safe to say they had their crime solving brains sucked out of their skulls already.
Sticking with my favorite theme of heroic girls and injecting realism or plausibilty to silly pop culture icons, I knew I wanted to make a certain teen detective her canine companion into the sole survivors of a Monsterpocalypse…
If there was a zombie apocalypse, I would think Velma and Scooby would be good company to watch your back. Too bad Daphne didn’t make it. I would glady watch hers. Muahahaha…
Buy this bitchin’ shirt at Threadless for a meer 18 dollaroos.
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TotD, not to be confused with “thought of the day” … though it should be one, wasn’t originally a typing game, oh no. TotD is, actually, a modified version of House of the Dead 2, which is part of a series of awesome all about using a light gun to blow away all sorts of creatures who have no business living, dammit! **SLAMSFIST**
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Yet another piece of awesome that I’m going to blame on Geek Girls Network’s Zombie Week. This horrifying Pikachu is a terrible representation of the power and madness of DeksDesigns. HE RESPONSIBLE THIS!
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This console mod is a must have for anyone who calls themselves a gamer or even claims to remotely care about anything zombie. I mean, LOOK AT IT! It doesn’t get more awesome! But, seriously, WTF is up with this thing? I mean, it looks like some kind of Frankenstein’s Super Famicom, or maybe just something that the Tommyknockers forced Jimmy Smits to build.
Thanks to modmaster and RetroTaku writer, skadrums71, for this pwntastic piece, the “Game Over Project“. View the full album of images, here, or just click the jump for selected mug shuts of the damned.
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Still keeping with Geek Girls Network Zombie Week, here are a few examples of what the internet has to offer in terms of Zombie Marios and few other Mario-related characters. Please note, some of these might be a bit gory, but know, at least, that I didn’t post the really, super, horrible, gut-wrenching images (the good ones).
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