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A series of arcade light gun games starring [[Sharp-Dressed Man|finely dressed federal agents]] mowing down armies of zombies. [[Excuse Plot|The story content of all four games essentially amounts to]]:
 
{{quote|1)# Zombies are being untidy and making an administrative burden of themselves.
2)# Sharp-dressed agents of the AMS arrive and resolve to stop the crisis.
3)# The villain will mention something about the threat of a Malthusian catastrophe (and the first game doesn't even bother with ''that'').
4)# But it doesn't matter to the protagonists 'cause they're suffused with the strength to forge on, no matter what! Yeah!}}
 
{{quote|(However, if you still feel more intricate details are needed, [[The House of the Dead (series)/Recap|we've a page for that]].)}}
 
Known for its fast-paced shooting and [[Multiple Endings]], ''The House of the Dead'' is one of those games that many play, but few ever beat (at least not without a small fortune in coins, that is). The first two games (especially the second) were infamous for hilariously weak voice acting that left you thinking the voice actors must have been instructed to sound as bored as possible, as well as an extremely stilted-sounding translation.
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Of course, this isn't all to the series. A beat 'em up side story game called ''Zombie Revenge'' was released on the arcade and Dreamcast. After that came ''The Typing of the Dead'', which is basically a re-release of ''The House of the Dead 2'', only now instead of bullets you [[Edutainment Game|kill with powered keyboards]], followed by a sequel, which rehashed ''The House of the Dead III'' ([[Audience-Alienating Premise|look, don't knock until you've tried it, okay?]]). There was a ''The Pinball of the Dead'' for the [[Game Boy Advance]], and a rare ''The House of the Dead 4 Special'' arcade that serves as a continuation of the original 4th installment, this time the game being made into a motion ride of sorts with that switches between two screens as the zombies come after you. There's also ''The House of the Dead EX'', which goes the comical route and put you in the role of two runaway undead lovebirds as they face against adversaries who try to split them apart. Unlike the last games, this one is more of a mini-game compilation. And lastly, the ''[[Sega Superstars]]'' series features ''The House of the Dead'' cameos, the most prominent being the latest installment ''Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing'', with three tracks taking place in the Curien Mansion and the aforementioned runaway undead lovebirds as playable racers.
 
So there you have it, 'till the fifth installmentinstalment.
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