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Only 1 voter specified Walking Dead Season 1.

Back in the ancient ye olden times when zombie apocalypse media and the Telltale formula were both fresh and exciting, The Walking Dead game came out and became something of a phenomenon. It was a perfect storm of factors. The TV show was already a megahit, but just as big a factor was that a bunch of AAA games released the same year and they all sucked. People at the time were disillusioned with name brands - and along comes Telltale with their story-driven, smaller-in-scope, emotional, gut-wrenching zombie drama that grabbed people by the entrails and didn't let go. The Walking Dead dominated discussion for like half a year straight. People compared their choices, yelled at each other over the best way to raise Clementine, and were generally captivated as they were forced to justify all their own bad decisions that they'd been always criticized people in zombie movies for making.

Season 1 of TWD was easily the most popular, but the subsequent seasons were also well-received. The factors that made Season 1 such a hit went south (the megahit TV show lost popularity and the Telltale formula got spammed...a lot) which led to Seasons 2-4 not being as big a deal, but people still cared. When Telltale went belly-up, this was the series people worried out about not being able to see the end of. Our society is absolutely inundated with zombie apocalypse media but Telltale's The Walking Dead still stands out as one of our favorites.

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