Back in 1992, someone over at the Japanese video game giant Konami decided that the world had waited long enough for a video game version of one of the cheesiest movies ever made, Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space.
 

Vampira (played by Finnish-born actress, Maila Nurmi), in a digitized scene from the ‘Plan 9 from Outer Space’ video game
 

Tor Johnson as seen in the 1992 video game
 
The point-and-click style game was released for Commodore’s Amiga personal computer and the Atari ST in both Europe and the US. Hard-to-find copies of the original game also came with a bonus—a VHS tape of Wood’s film inside. Like the film itself, gameplay was pretty tedious. As the player, you are a private investigator who must travel to locations in and around Los Angeles in search of missing film reels that were stolen by Bela Lugosi’s movie double. To spice things up a little, Konami used digitized footage (pictured above) from Plan 9 From Outer Space in their game design, which was actually pretty slick for the time (believe it or not, kids).
 

Screenshots from the “Plan 9 from Outer Space” video game by Konami, 1992
 
The the game also includes a short digitized homage to Lugosi. If you’d like to relive playing Plan 9 from Outer Space (or experience it for the first time and totally nerd out like I did as I actually found the game kind of cool), I’ve posted an hour-long video that a very patient YouTuber recorded and posted of actual gameplay, below.
 

Gameplay from the “Plan 9 from Outer Space” video game by Konami, 1992

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