While a few minor zombie-related movies were released between the 1930s and 1940s, it was George A. Romero's 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead that really popularized the zombie genre for the first time in mainstream media. Pretty much as soon as the medium appeared, zombies would quickly find their way into video games, with the early 1980s game Zombie Zombie being one of the first major examples to feature them. But while zombies continued to creep in and out of video games for the next decade or so, the real onslaught began in 1996.