Arcade Zombie

Arcade Zombie
Pushes an arcade cabinet that spits out 8-Bit Zombies.
Almanac statistics
Toughness	Dense
Speed	Hungry
In-game statistics
In-game toughness	Protected
Health	490
Damage	instant-kill
Preferred jam	8-bit
Weakness	(cannot be crushed, armed Mines explode if on arcade machine) (Plant Food prevents Arcade Zombie from pushing his machine) (Arcade Zombie cannot push his arcade machine when shrunken) (can attack both machine and zombie) (attacks Arcade Zombie from behind) (can attack multiple zombies and arcade machines) (can divert the zombie away from his arcade machine) (flings the Arcade Zombie away from his machine, preventing him from pushing it) (separates Arcade Zombie from his machine) (prioritizes zombie) (deals extreme damage to arcade machines) (seeds prevent it from pushing arcade machine)
First seen	Neon Mixtape Tour - Day 22
First seen (China)	Neon Mixtape Tour - Day 19
Code name	eighties_arcade
When it's a choice between quarters for games and quarters for laundry, Arcade Zombie is prepared to make the ultimate stinky sacrifice.

Arcade Zombie is a zombie encountered in Neon Mixtape Tour in Plants vs. Zombies 2. He pushes an arcade machine in a manner similar to Troglobite pushing frozen blocks. During the 8-bit jam, the arcade machines will start spawning 8-Bit Zombies, which are 8-bit variants of Basic, Conehead, and Buckethead Zombies.

He was first revealed in the Neon Mixtape Tour Side B developer diary released on September 15, 2015.

Description

The Arcade Zombie borrows the same body model, idle, moving, eating, and dying animation from Octo Zombie, Troglobite, Jurassic Bully, Jurassic Rockpuncher and Zombie Medusa, which all reuse the same animations. His get up consists of a very messy hairstyle colored in red.

In addition, he wears eyeglasses with a twist-tie. His shirt consists of a colorful design with light blue as the primary color of the attire only to be paired up with yellow and pink designs respectively. The sleeves and bottom of the shirt are ragged. The linings on the neck and edge portion of the sleeves are all colored in dark blue, matching the gloves and jumper shorts that he wears except the suspenders of the jumper shorts are colored in magenta. He also wears a yellow belt with a green pouch. Finally, his footwear consists of white rubber shoes with blue designs and green socks.

Almanac entry

Arcade Zombie
	TOUGHNESS Dense SPEED Hungry Pushes an arcade cabinet that spits out 8-Bit Zombies. Damage: crushes plants with arcade machine When it's a choice between quarters for games and quarters for laundry, Arcade Zombie is prepared to make the ultimate stinky sacrifice.

Overview

Arcade Zombie absorbs 490 damage. His apperance changes after absorbing 245 damage, when he loses his arm, before dying at 490 damage.

Encounters

Plants vs. Zombies 2

• Neon Mixtape Tour: Days 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, and Greatest Hits
• Jurassic Marsh: Piñata Party
• Modern Day: Days 17 and 34

Chinese version (China only)

• Neon Mixtape Tour: Days 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, Ultimate Challenge and Endless Challenge

Strategies

Unlike most zombies in Neon Mixtape Tour, the Arcade Zombie can pose more of a threat than a Basic Zombie even when his jam is not playing - he can crush plants with his arcade machine, plus it blocks straight-shooting projectiles. The real problem, however, is when the jam does play, as the arcade machine is able to spawn 8-Bit Zombies in endless quantities, which pose a great threat of overwhelming your defenses. It is important to note that you should try to destroy his arcade machine as quickly as possible.

Tips

• Try to prevent him from pushing his arcade machine close to your house by using slowing plants like Stallia and pushing plants like Chard Guard. You can also try using area effect plants to kill him quickly so that the arcade machine will not be pushed further into your lawn.
• Bowling Bulbs are a good choice as they can quickly destroy multiple arcade machines and the 8-bit zombies spawned by him, due to their bouncing shots.
• Jack O' Lanterns can instantly destroy all zombies in their damage area, making them useful to ensure that little to no 8-bit zombies are spawned by the arcade machine.
• Guacodiles and Parsnips can help weaken multiple arcade machines, while destroying several 8-Bit Zombies spawned from them.
• Instant-use plants such as Cherry Bomb will quickly help get rid of arcade machines and 8-Bit Zombies and while should not be relied on, are very effective in a pinch.
• Using Thyme Warp is extremely effective, as it will separate the arcade machine from the Arcade Zombie as well as send all zombies to the rightmost column, leaving all arcade machines unattended and exposed. Furthermore, if you use it when the arcade machines are at the very edge of the lawn, the zombie will be warped to the first column, preventing the pushing of his machines.
• Try to destroy arcade machines quickly; otherwise, you may end up with more 8-Bit Zombies than what you can deal with.
• Using Garlic directly on the Arcade Zombie will separate him from the machine, preventing him from pushing the machine so he is vulnerable to attack.

Audio

Sound	Description
	Pushing arcade machine

Gallery

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  HD Arcade Zombie

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  HD Arcade Zombie pushing an Arcade Machine

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  Almanac entry

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  Almanac entry (10.5.2)

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  Almanac icon

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  Arcade Zombie's sprites and assets

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  Arcade Zombie pushing a damaged arcade machine

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  Arcade Zombie pushing an Arcade Machine and crushing a Spore-shroom (Animated)

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  Dead Arcade Zombie

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  Armless Arcade Zombie affected by Glitter Zombie's trail

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  Arcade Zombie features in an advertisement for Neon Mixtape Tour Side B

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  Arcade Zombie, along with Breakdancer Zombie, Boombox Zombie, and 8-Bit Zombies

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  Burnt Arcade Zombie

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  An Arcade Zombie ate the players brains!

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  A glitched Arcade Zombie that has stopped walking. Notice the lack of an Arcade Machine to push

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  A fainted Arcade Zombie

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  A shrunken Arcade Zombie

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  A poisoned Arcade Zombie

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  Hypnotized Arcade Zombie

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  A glowing Arcade Zombie

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  A headless Arcade Zombie

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  Arcade Zombie eating the player's brains

Videos

• Plants vs. Zombies 2 New Arcade Zombie, 8-Bit Zombie - Neon Mixtape Tour Day 22 (Ep.329)

  By Alex5432000

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Arcade Zombie
Simplified Chinese	街机僵尸	From 街机 and 僵尸
French	Zombie d'arcade
German	Arcade-Zombie
Italian	Zombi arcade
Brazilian Portuguese	Zumbi do Fliperama
Spanish	Zombi arcade

Trivia

• Similar to Imp Porter, he can summon the basic trio, the Basic, Conehead, and Buckethead Zombies.
• While the player must still rid the lawn of all 8-Bit Zombies, the player does not have to destroy all of the arcade machines at the end of the level, even when the 8-bit jam is playing.
• He does not actually react to his jam, instead his arcade machine is the one that reacts to the jam.
• A glitch may occur when two Arcade Zombies start pushing the same arcade machine. When two Arcade Zombies push the same machine, one of them will freeze in his animation and will remain so for the remainder of the level. Meanwhile, the other Arcade Zombie continues to push the arcade machine normally.
• Another glitch may occur when an Arcade Zombie appears without an arcade machine. When the Arcade Zombie then starts pushing, the arcade machine will spawn literally out of thin air in the wrong position in the same row where the glitched Arcade Zombie is, without producing any 8-Bit Zombies even if the right jam is played. This glitch tends to happen quite often in Neon Mixtape Tour - Day 32 and Modern Day - Day 34 during the fourth phase of the level.
• There is another glitch where the Arcade Zombie will stop moving entirely. If the Arcade Machine is destroyed just when the Arcade Zombie is about to push it, he will freeze and continue to play his idle animation for the rest of the level or until he is killed.
• Sometimes, when timed right, his arcade machine may still spawn an 8-Bit Zombie right after being destroyed.
  • The arcade machine can also occasionally still be pushed and crush plants after being destroyed.
• With the 4.1.1 version, he (along with Troglobite, Jurassic Bully/Rockpuncher, and Octo Zombie) now has a unique burnt and zapped animation.
• For some reason, he cannot summon 8-Bit Zombies in Modern Day - Day 17. This is most likely a glitch in the code.
• In the Chinese version, it is possible to plant freely on his machine.
• He cannot push the arcade machine past the speakers that are dropped in by the Zombot Multi-stage Masher.
• He will summon 8-Bit Zombies in Arena despite its jam not playing, but not in Piñata Party or Modern Day.
  • This is different from the other special Neon Mixtape Tour zombies, whose abilities will activate in Piñata Party and Modern Day as well as Arena.
• In the trailer for Side B of Neon Mixtape Tour, he is seen nodding his head along with the music. This also happens during the Modern Day trailer for both Part 1 and Part 2.
• The fact that this summons PvZ zombies and the PvZ designs on the side of his arcade machine signals that this is likely a PvZ arcade machine. However, his world, Neon Mixtape Tour, is in the 1980s, while PvZ was made in 2009.

See also

• 8-Bit Zombie
• Arcade machine
• Troglobite
• Frozen block
• Zombie Medusa
• Egg Pusher Imp

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