Zombies Ate My neighbors is a fun game to play, specially with someone else, it is not that fun to watch if you at least haven't played the game. I don't think this will be a huge problem on this run, as I blaze through the levels, a very big chunk of the video will be spent on level intro and endings.
Since I played this a lot with my brother and during the time these horror movies starting showing on tv (at least on my country) it has become my all time fav. game, I didn't only play the game to find more monsters, but I also kept an eye on the tv to catch their movies :) Anyway, my brother used to pick Zeke, that is why I used Julie here, even though I lose some time selecting her.
Runs for this game more than skill require memory. Not only to memorize the routes and what items to pick, but also to memorize what areas are likely to have certain monster, from where I shouldn't approach a victim, etc, basically what are the usual -and unusual- ways each level plays out. In that regard I got the game pretty much memorized.
My test runs were emulated runs however, the keyboard differs a lot from the SNES controller since I can press single and diagonal directions without worrying of mispresses. When recording the actual runs with the actual controller however, this became a problem as I had a drunk-like character. I picked the best controller I had and finally managed to control the character most of the time, at the cost of concentration... that costed me three ugly mistakes I hate, and others I don't mind. I do have good character control here, tend not to mispress, and still fire the bazooka in diagonals and stuff. Something odd is that this runs stays faster even though later I did more emulated runs _with_ savestates to test some shortcuts, boss battles were lucky I guess.
Every 40,000 points you get a bonus, an extra victim if you have less than 10. If I didn't kill anything I could get this bonus _very_ late in the game, however that means losing time while evading monsters, and later when killing the extra victim (in the later levels they are quite apart from each other). Instead I kill monsters and trigger it a bit past the first boss, in a level where both victims are extremely close. The window of error is about 750 points, that means I earn 750 points on the level before the goal, so I HAVE to leave the level before that with points between 39,250 and 39,999 to be sure to make it.
