Night of the Walking Dead

Night of the Walking Dead
Game
Main links	Download IFDB IF Archive
Published	1992
Credits
Author	John Olsen
Reception
IFDB rating	5 out of 5 (1 rating)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Literary genre	Horror
Location	Park
Language	English
Cruelty scale	Polite
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	The Quill
System	MS-DOS
License	Shareware
IFID	MZ-1C227D16C1FD1F3C5A68D09257274F51
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About the Game

From the game's documentation:

You are in an old rundown cemetery at the edge of a Louisiana bayou, looking for the grave of your Aunt Bedilia. Can you bring back her locket? Or will you be thwarted by the secrets of the dead?

How it begins

You play as an unnamed person, initially carrying nothing. You are standing outside a morgue. You are looking for your late Aunt Bedilla's locket to prove you're the legal heir to her fortune.

Notable features

Zombies. In defiance of the title, most of the zombies in this game appear as unliving corpses who only move when your character isn't there watching them.
Repeated gambit. Quite often in this game, you'll be attacked by a zombie from behind and lose one of your inventory items. You will now have to find the item and the zombie who took it somewhere else.

Versions

Version 3.0

Date: 1992

Night of the Walking Dead (John Olsen; 1992; MS-DOS).
- IFID: MZ-1C227D16C1FD1F3C5A68D09257274F51
  IFID links: IFDB
- Download horror30.zip from the IF Archive. Tales of Horror collection.

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