A new web game put out by one Mike Lacher uses the power of Google Street View to create its own Zombie Apocalypse… sort of:

Enter a location and run from zombies inside street view. Please use Google Chrome (Safari tends to be okay too).

This is rather experimental, so please let me know if it’s horribly broken for you.

Naturally, this is an awful affront to the Zombie Community, as well as a particularly pernicious piece of propaganda. Not only does it (apparently) push the Zombie Apocalypse hate-myth but it allows people to transport their own cities, towns and neighborhoods into the apocalyptic world, adding new dimensions to the already gripping (yet totally irrational) fear.

Yet, playing the game, I noticed something: these ‘Zombies’ were really, really tiny.

In fact, one might even say they were three crab apples high:

As you can see, the little ankle-biters are on a tear!

Yes, I do believe there’s been an error here: this isn’t a ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ at all; it’s a Smurf-pocalypse!

Now, I have a lot of experience with Zombies, and I can assure you that they mean no harm and are not likely to cause the end of the world as we know it. But Smurfs?

Their potentially subversive politics have long been questioned, and the precise nature of their inexplicable and alien biology has never been adequately explained.

Could Smurfs cause the ruin of mankind and the downfall of civilization? The Zombie Rights Campaign can neither confirm nor deny this possibility.

Having played the game, I can only conclude that it has been labeled as being about Zombies as a careless error. If it was properly relabeled to indicate that it is, in fact, about the Smurfs running rampant across the globe, spreading their terrifying Communist black magic and eating our children, the ZRC would have no particular issue with the game. As it stands, for recklessly associating innocent Zombies with the Magic Commie menace, we have to rate this game as Anti-Zombie.

Tags: Don't Use the Zed Word, Videogames

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