Zombie High

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Zombie High was meant to be a side-scrolling shooter from Electronic Arts hitting the Sega Genesis in early 1993. Players control a high school student armed with various weapons while fighting through hordes of undead classmates on campus grounds. The prototype shows frantic action where you jump over desks and blast zombies that charge straight at you. It feels like a standard arcade shooter but with a weird school setting thrown in for flavor. No one knows why EA pulled the plug before launch, leaving this as a rare piece of gaming history. Fans who have tracked down the dumped ROM say the graphics look crisp and the level design has some clever touches despite being unfinished. The community rate it highly among cancelled titles simply because you can actually play a finished chunk of it today. It stands out mostly for its odd premise rather than any impressive mechanics or deep story elements.