Archive for 4 March, 2010

Having grown up in the era of the Atari 5200, ColecoVision, and Nintendo 8-bit systems, the only RPG that ever crossed my path was the original Zelda game. Since then, there have been many games that have caused boys and men alike to sit in front of their television sets for weeks on end and challenge every aspect of their personal and business lives. Sweethearts get ignored, caffeinated beverages and junk foods are consumed en masse, and nerd points are accumulated as one video game geek after another calls in sick to their workplace in order to beat the game.

Prior to George A. Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead, zombies were vegetarians. As a matter of fact, the living dead on film used to do nothing more than stumble about Hollywood’s back-lots and obey their masters’ orders (see: I Walked With A Zombie, or White Zombie for further clarification). Following Romero’s reinvention of the animated corpses however, zombies became dangerous, flesh-eating monsters. You have to admit, they are a bit more terrifying when they’re after your brains.