You have 72 hours to survive the zombie apocalypse. Trapped in an all-American shopping mall and forced to scrounge for weapons and supplies. To keep yourself alive you’ll need to use everything you can find, from throwing plates like ninja stars, to massacring dozens of undead with a lawnmower.

Eighteen years after its release, Dead Rising remains one of the most immersive zombie games ever created — a fantastic confluence of frictional systems, time management, and dynamic storytelling. It’s a cult classic that would go on to create one of Capcom’s biggest series and inspired a handful of other games in the process. As beloved as it is, Dead Rising certainly shows its age, but that’s no longer an issue. After spending nearly a dozen hours with the Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, Capcom has given one of its biggest cult classics a new lease on life with a gorgeous visual upgrade and a handful of smart gameplay changes. Dead Rising has never been better.

Certain electronic rebranding moments are hilarious in retrospect. In 1984, when the computer company Apple wanted to make it seem like its new computers were better than its old computers, the moniker “Macintosh” was applied, in an effort to remind people of different kinds of apples in real life. Apple, thankfully, stopped there and didn’t try to market any “Red Delicious” or “Granny Smith” computers, but the term “Mac” stuck anyway and is still used today. Interestingly, in 1989, just five years after the introduction of 1984’s Apple Macintosh, a similar name-game rebranding happened in the gaming world — but with a much shorter lifespan. Today, we don’t live in a world in which people casually refer to their latest gaming console as a “Genesis.” But from 1989 to about 1993, it really felt like we would all have Genesis forever.

Thirty-five years ago, on August 14, Sega released the Sega Genesis gaming system, a moment in which the Pepsi of gaming systems challenged the Coke of Nintendo and nearly succeeded. Because for those who were there, the truth about Sega Genesis is that at the time of its release, it felt different and better than Nintendo in every way, and not only because it had a cool name.