The shame's wacky logo.
Zombies vs. Plants (lesser known as its full name Zombies vs Plants 1: We Don't Want Zombies on Our Lawn!!) is a shame made by PipCop Shames LTD. It was released in 1989 and was released as an even better pack in 1991, in commemoration of the fall of the Soviet Union. It was released on the PC 2, NintenD'oh 66, NintenD'oh iBart, and was rereleased as "Zombies vs. Plants THE REMASTER!" on the NintenD'oh ShameSphere, iJennyXJ9 (albeit only the demo that goes up to 1-6), and the PC 3!!! It was one of the most influential shames of the 69th console generation, especially because Biased Ratings gave it a 4 for "AWSOME!!".
The shame was so influential, it was briefly noticed by Chuck Norris, but he was too busy to even notice what the shame was about so he never knew what the shame was. He would probably say it's a good shame though.
Hey, wait a second, we could make a company out of this! It would be called "Chuck Norris' Bias" and it's literally Chuck Norris' bias on shames, even though he never reviewed it!!!! PERFECTO IDEA!!
History
Conception
Zombies vs. Plants was initially concepted by those cronies at Nintendo (it was actually Shigeru Miyamoto and Mr. Nintendo, but he didn't really like this idea and instead made patches for Dinner Blaster). Nintendo hated the proposed idea and threw the initial concepts onto the road. A PIPCOP SHAMES LTD. employee named Fan George saw the suitcase and decided to examine its contents at his home. He saw the ideas for Zombies vs. Plants, and showed it to PIPCOP. PIPCOP LTD. saw many mistakes and flaws with the concept and refined it.
Zombies vs. Plants was originally called "KILL THE ZOMBIES™" and involved guns shooting against realistic zombies. PIPCOP decided to simplify everything and make every single sprite in MS Paint.
The Making Of Zombies vs. Plants
Some concepts leaked from PIPCOP SHAMES LTD.
Simplifying Everything
Something had to be done about the goriness in the original concept ideas of "KILL THE ZOMBIES". PIPCOP decided to simplify everything and remake everything in MS Paint. The Gun in the original concept became Peashooter, the Ammunition became the Sunflower, and all the characters were repurposed to be friendly and not gory.
Ideas from 1987: A Look Into The Eyes of A PIPCOP Developer
The plot for the shame was originally this:
You take the moon (it does nothing) and take/pick up that sun, you're given the choice to throw it at the policeman or put it in the trashcan. With enough sun, you build plants! Without any sun, you lose.Using sun you've gathered like a "we are farmers, bumbumbubmubmubmbbbuummmm", you get to building a sentry, or like Sunflowers, erecting a dispenser. Dispensers in this shame dispense ammo and give to players in a small radius gradual healing as well as repaired armor. If you're playing as the Engineer class you're also able to pick up metal from them, which you can use to upgrade buildings, or create a teleporter or something to get that fat russian man to the frontlines. Sentries win kills, teleprompters win shames.By choosing to build the teleporter you instantly win the shame and get a trophy for doing so.—The Developer, high on an acid trip and didn't have any good ideas
(This ad was put up here by EA, even though they don't own PIPCOP lol)
The shame was super boring and could easily be speedrunned in 5 seconds, so they decided to diversify the plot more. With adding more plants in total and adding more zombies, they managed to make the shame NOT stale and replayable for years to come.
Originally, the shame looked more like a rastered Super Nintendo Entertainment System shame from whatever year, however due to the artstyle breaking the simplistic idea all the sprites were repainted and repurposed.
Peashooter's original cleaned idea was it to be a goofy lil' Pea Pod, however it was scrapped due to the fact that it looked too realistic for the idea of the shame (Be. SIMPLE.). It was then repurposed as the first plant you get, a shooter than can fend off zombies.
The Balloon Zombie looked like some kid who died after his balloon fit snugly into a tree and choked him. However, the concept of his cause of death was very serious if it was ever seen by the public. They repurposed his zombie and his cause of death was never mentioned again in the shame.
Release to the Public
The shame was released in 1989 to lotsa fanfare, due to the fact that it was hyped up beginning from late 1988. The shame was generally praised, with people saying the following:
"This shame's cool. It's not educational, but it's fun."
"I don't like the zombies, but the shame is cool!"
"Please help me. I'm from Zimbabwe. The shame is so funny, I can't help but laugh. I can't laugh here."
When it was released to the public, people were confused as to why it wouldn't work on PC hardware. It turns out that after the lawsuit (see below), PIPCOP SHAMES LTD vowed to NEVER release any of their shames (except for bad ones) on Nintendo hardware. Instead, it was exclusic to only original PC 2 (or 3, this only goes for the 1st remaster and the second) hardware with no Nintendo modifications.
It was also rumored that a deal was made between PIPCOP SHAMES LTD and Homer Simpson that would make it so that any future ZvP shames would be released on exclusive hardware (and any other hardware they liked). This turned out to be true, as the shame was released on PC 2 (and 3), the NintenD'oh iBart and its weirder variant iJennyXJ9 (albeit a stupid demo), and more exclusive hardware.
However, there were limitations of the iJennyXJ9 such as:
- less powerful CPU
- CRT screen
- pointless upgrades
- less RAM
The whole shame (1.44 MB disk) could not fit on the iJennyXJ9. In fact, the graphics on the iJennyXJ9 were so glitchy, that even if you could fit the shame on a 99 kilobyte disc, the graphics were on a CRT, so it would be super duper weird since it was meant to be on an LCD screen!! Because of this, they built a dedicated crappy engine that was so slow it took 15 hours to download and even play. The whole shame still could not fit on a disk, so they had to cut down on a lot of levels. The result was the crappy iJennyXJ9 port of ZvP.
Nintendo vs. PIPCOP LTD.
Before the shame released (June 14, 1989), on May 5th, 1989, Nintendo sued for copyright infringement after hearing about the shame, saying the following:
WE SU YU FOR COPYING OUR SHAME!! WE MAKE THIS!! WE LOVE THIS SHAME!! WE NO TRASH!!
—Mr. Nintendo, starting off the court proceedings
However, PIPCOP objected saying that they CLEARLY trashed the concepts, showing the ORIGINAL copies themselves, that clearly said "From Nintendo". Nintendo was fined 1,000,000 UnDollars, and they vowed their revenge against PIPCOP. They didn't care though.
When asked about the lawsuit, Mr. Nintendo simply stated, "We no like American fuckers anyway!!!" PIPCOP now has Zombies vs. Plants as its' main contender for shames. They were almost bought out by EA, however they saw the horrible things EA did to other franchises, so they abstained. EA thinks they own PIPCOP, but they actually don't.
Ever since this lawsuit, PIPCOP has never put ANY of their shames on Nintendo consoles (with the exception of Zombies vs Plants 3: Reeks of Garlic.)
Shameplay
Zombies vs Plants shameplay with fully jacked defense.
The shame starts with the story of a fat man. One day, this fat man was watching NBC News and said "Man, I wish there was something interesting in my life." Suddenly, 4 zombies come in and eat the crap out of this dude and he is left for dead. As it turns out, this is none other than Crazy Dave, the person you get to meet in the shame. He is the only person ever to survive a zom-beating (get it?) and now wants to help you to survive the apocalypse. It then pans to the story of You, as it shows that you were sniffing powdered cocaine before zombies came to try (and fail) to eat you.
There are 5 stages. These stages are:
- Day
- Night
- Pool
- Fog
- Roof (for some reason)
Day
The shame starts on Day with you on the front lawn, and Crazy Dave gives you a Pea Pod seed for some reason. He says it can only be planted with currency from the sky (Sun). You plant it, and it immediately grows into this weird nifty little Peashooter. The Peashooter shoots all the zombies on the lawn and you win the level. Crazy Dave then gives you a Sunflower for some reason, but you don't mind it. You then figure out that the Sunflower makes weird little pellets called Sun that can let you plant more seeds. You get more plants, and then after 1-4 Crazy Dave suddenly gives you a FREAKIN' WALLNUT and says "F*** this, we're gonna kill zombies by bowling them. Why? BECAUSE I'M CRAAAAAAAZY!!" Then you get more plants, and then after 1-9 the Zombies say the following:
yuo mad us doo dis. wii r goin 2 invad yuor lan.
—Sincerely, the Zombies
And right after you get to kill zombies using plants and it's COOL!! After that it becomes Nighttime.
Night
The zombies decide to give up invading your lawn for around a day, and then in the Nighttime they prepare to kill you. However you came prepared and purposefully set an alarm for 9:30 to prepare killing zombies. However there is no sun from the sky (since it's night time, duh) and you have to resort to using Puff Shrooms and Sunflowers. After beating 2-1 you get to have the Sun-shroom, a boring mushroom that gives out Sun (he hates Sun) and then you get to play for a few more levels and then get to BASH ZOMBIES WITH A MALLET IN 2-5 (SERIOUS HERE). After that, you get to play for 5 more levels before the zombies send another note that says the following:
wii herd yuo h@D snaks. giv us som pls.
—Sincerely, the Zombies
You then get to fight the zombies with Fart-shrooms, Puff Shrooms, Scaredy Shrooms, and even a NUKE SHROOM!!!!!
Pool
The zombies decide that your front yard is too good so they find out you have a pool and they will try and kill you from there. There's now 6 lanes (great) and 2 of them are your hazardously long pool which means you obviously can't plant on them without lily pads. You fight them for 5 levels until the zombies become really fast and very small then 5 more levels earning hip plants such as a FREAKING TALL WALL NUT and a SPIKEWEED before getting another note saying:
wii herd yu0 weer having a p0ol partee, that soundz funn. can wii coem oever?
—Sincerely, the Zombies
You get to use a Peashooter that shoots in 3 lanes called the threepeater like a boss for the cost of 325 sun because THAT IS COOL!!!11! After all this fighting the pool becomes dark and the fog comes around.
Fog
It’s night time again. That means you get to use your friends from the night, YAY! However, there’s now a layer of fog that prevents you from seeing a portion of the lawn. This continues for 5 levels until the plants and zombies get replaced with VASES!!! And you get to BREAK THEM!!!!! With a song that goes HAARRRDDDD with the level!
After this, it's back to the fog unlocking plants like a Peashooter from Chernobyl, extending cactus and a lantern until you get a note saying:
Thiz iz ur muther. come down to mie houze for "meetloarf". leave ur fronnt d00r opern and ur lawn ungu@rded
—Sincerely, mom (not the zombies)
After this, the fog goes away. However, now you cannot see anything until lightning flashes which means you need luck to make sure your brains don't get eaten. After this, we're onto the FINAL LEVEL!
Roof
This is the final level in the shame. You’re back to 5 lanes now but you need TERRA COTTA to plant on them, and don’t even try to use peashooter as these plants are USELESS!
Wip.
Remaster
Lowest quality plants vs zombies
low quality Zombies vs Plants remaster video
In 1991, the definitive experience of Zombies vs. Plants was created: "Zombies vs. Plants 1: We Like This Shame And We Like The Fact That The Soviet Union Fell This Year So We Remade The Shame Because We Hate The Soviets". It was however marketed as "Zombies vs. Plants: The Soviets Suck". This isn't a sequel, but it kinda is because it features..
- MORE ZOMBOSS LEVELS
- ADDING 5 MORE STAGES
- FULL REMASTER OF EVERY ZOMBIE
- SOVIET EASTER EGG
- MORE VASEBREAKER
- MULTIPLAYER
- MORE PLANTS
- SURVIVAL MODE
- LAST STAND
- A MOBILE PHONE VERSION!
- AND MORE!!!!
This pack was limited edition though. It was 39.99 with only around 90,000+ copies sold. However, a person from 2010 going under the name "LimitedEditionsSux" burned the shame's data onto his computer and put it on the Internet. Now you can play it for FREE!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!
Gallery
These contain some concepts, leaked art and what plants used to look like. There are still things that need to be made, but who cares?
