Monsters Ate My Neighbors

Monsters Ate My Neighbors was one of those Flash games you'd find buried on a gaming portal in the mid-2000s. It had that specific look and feel, a simple cartoon style that loaded right in your browser. You didn't need to install anything, which was part of the appeal back then.

You control a kid defending a suburban house from waves of monsters. Your main goal is to stop them from getting inside. You do this by placing different plants in your yard, each with its own attack, like shooting peas or lobbing melons. The monsters come in all sorts of weird shapes, from zombies to aliens, and each wave gets a bit tougher. You have to manage your resources, deciding where to put your best defenses as the pace picks up. It creates a tense, silly kind of panic as your lawn fills up with chaos.