9 Disastrous Video Games That Totally Killed Their Consoles
8. NES - Zombie Nation (1990)
The words Zombie Nation might well take you back to a dance floor in 1999, though nine years earlier at the turn of the decade the same words were giving Nintendo nightmares. A NES shoot em up developed by KAZe and published by Meldac, Zombie Nation was centred on a floating samurai head named Namakubi who aims to seek and destroy a meteorite that has crashed through the earths atmosphere and landed in the United States. This is no ordinary meteorite, however. Darc Seed (which a small number of you may remember was the name of the evil alien rock) is equipped with magnetic rays that allow it to take control of the country, bring the Statue of Liberty to life and turn the entire American Nation into zombies, just for good measure. With the SNES just around the corner, hopes for Zombie Nation were high, pushing the NESs capabilities with its original horizontal scrolling and multiple on-screen enemies, but it failed to breathe enough fresh life into an ageing console and was heavily criticised for its gameplay and difficulty, with the Japanese version bombing heavier than the US and UK releases. In fact, back in Nintendos homeland, this game is a well-known Kuso-gu (which translates literally as sh*tty-game) but has gone on to become a bit of a cult classic in the way that terrible B-movie horrors tend to do, something of a 'must play' for any retro gamers collection.
