Dtoider Patrick a.k.a. NukaCola has a regular feature in which he takes listener-requested videogame music and layers a thick slather of live drums atop the original track. We've featured him on Weekend Destructainment in the past, but since that little feature has gone the way of Steven Seagal's career, now Patrick gets a post all to himself.
As a belated Halloween treat, he samples the LucasArts classic Zombies Ate My Neighbors in the latest video. Naturally, he rocks the joint. His performance has given me the urge to try out the game, which I've sadly never played before. The music sounds appropriately creepy and I do love giant mutant babies, so I'm sure I'll enjoy it.
If you want to request your own VGdrum rendition, hit up Patrick's Twitter or Facebook pages. Don't be afraid to give him something fast that'll make his hands and feet fall off! Make the man work for his passion!
Tony Ponce (aka megaStryke) is a culturally confused, Canadian-born Puerto Rican who grew up in Japan and South Florida ... yet can only speak English. He specializes in writing features and maintaining an immaculate goatee. Likes: Any and all things related to Mega Man, Contra, Castlevania, 2D, PB&J sandwiches, applesauce, and candy corn.
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Beautiful drumming. I can't suggest ZAMN more. It was the one game that had my father and I battling against each other to see who could go farther. He'd play when I was asleep, I'd play when he was at work. Eventually we both realized how good at it we were and played co-op. The day we beat Dr. Tongue was such a beautiful thing.
This is seriously in my top 10 of favorite games of all time.
And one of my favorite soundtracks, though personally, I think that Zombie Panic is one of the weaker tracks.
I FUCKING LOVE THE BOSS BATTLE MUSIC.
Zombies Ate My Neighbors is a kick butt action platformer from back in the day. To me it played with a lot of the classic monster/sci-fi elements with lots of tongue in cheek cheesiness.
Check out this link to a youtube video if your curious about how it plays.
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Anyways, good stuff. I definitely enjoyed listening to that.
what kind of crack you smoking boy? ghoul patrol was garbage compared to ZAMN
And one of my favorite soundtracks, though personally, I think that Zombie Panic is one of the weaker tracks.
I FUCKING LOVE THE BOSS BATTLE MUSIC.
Check out this link to a youtube video if your curious about how it plays.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut9oWWI0mWM