History Trivia / PlantsVsZombies

** Oh, and if you own an UsefulNotes/Xbox360 but live in a country with no UsefulNotes/{{Xbox Live|Arcade}} support, no ''[=PvZ=]'' Xbox for you!

* TheWikiRule: [[http://plantsvszombies.wikia.com/wiki/ Here.]]

* TropeNamer: For SummonBackupDancers.

** Prior to December 14, 2011, if you own an Android device and live outside of the US or Canada, you can't have ''[=PvZ=]'' on Android since the game was exclusively available to the Amazon App Store, which only sells within the US and Canada. The trope was finally averted and made available over the regular Android Market worldwide on December 14, 2011.

For trivia in the sequel, see ''Trivia/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime''

* CreatorsFavorite: Game composer and vocalist Laura Shigihara's favorite plant is the Cattail. This is emphasized by how, when her name shows up in the "Zombies on Your Lawn" music video, a sprite of a Cattail shows up next to it.

* CreatorsFavorite: Game composer and vocalist Laura Shigihara's favorite plant is the Cattail. This is emphasized by how, when her name shows up in the "There's a zombie on your lawn" music video, a sprite of a Cattail shows up next to it.

** Oh, and if you own an UsefulNotes/Xbox360 but live in a country with no UsefulNotes/{{Xbox Live|Arcade}} support, no [=PvZ=] Xbox for you!

* PortOverdosed: You can play the original PVZ on Steam, the DS, the Playstation 3, the Xbox 360, the Playstation Vita, Windows Phone 7, Android, iOS....

* ViralMarketing: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N1_0SUGlDQ music video]] and various videos of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98v7Jq6IFrE zombie cosplayers]] on Youtube.

* DivorcedInstallment: The game was planned to be a sequel to ''VideoGame/{{Insaniquarium}}'', one of Pop Cap's older games.

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Originally the Dancing Zombie was based on Michael Jackson's ''Thriller'' look, but not only did the popstar's estate take issue with this, Jackson himself died just a few months after the game launched. As a result, the dev team chose to redesign the character entirely.
* DivorcedInstallment: The game was planned to be a sequel to ''VideoGame/{{Insaniquarium}}'', one of Popcap's older games.

** The sound for unlocking an achievement is the same sound used in [[VideoGame/{{Peggle}} Peggle]] when you get the all pegs cleared ribbon.
** The collection of gems in the first game is also used for VideoGame/{{Bejeweled}}'s gem matching and VideoGame/{{Insaniquarium}}'s own gem collecting.

* NoExportForYou
** Prior to December 14, 2011, if you own an Android device and live outside of the US or Canada, you can't have [=PvZ=] on Android since the game was exclusively available to the Amazon App Store, which only sells within the US and Canada. The trope was finally averted and made available over the regular Android Market worldwide on December 14, 2011.
** Oh, and if you own an UsefulNotes/Xbox360 but live in a country with no UsefulNotes/{{XBox Live|Arcade}} support, no [=PvZ=] Xbox for you!
** Plants vs. Zombies Heroes was released in March 2016, but only for certain countries. It didn't get released globally until October 2016 with some added polish.

* WorkingTitle: As detailed on the WhatCouldHaveBeen page, Plants vs. Zombies had ''many'' working titles during its development, but the last one the game likely used before switching to Plants vs. Zombies was "Bloom and Doom" as revealed by a beta prototype.
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* PortOverdosed: You can play the original PVZ on Steam, the DS, the Playstation 3, the Xbox 360, the Playstation Vita, Windows Phone 7, Android, iOS, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers your toilet...]]
* ReferencedBy: [[ReferencedBy/PlantsVsZombies Has its own page]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Quite a lot, actually.
** Several other names were planned for the game, such as "Lawn of the Dead", "Bloom and Doom", "Zombotany" and "Mr. Toad's Wild Lawn".
** There was originally a level set in an icey inviroment simply called "Ice Level" for the game. [[DummiedOut It is still in the game]], but nothing like what it was originally like.
** Going into the Lawnstrings folder reveals there were zombies called "Dog Walking Zombie" and "Propeller Zombie".
** Most insane of them all, though, is that there are a whopping ''21 unused minigames'' in the game, 20 of them with their own unused page, the Limbo Page.

* WorkingTitle: ''[[Film/DawnOfTheDead Lawn of the Dead]]'' was one of the game's many, ''many'' working titles before ''Plants vs. Zombies'' was finally settled on. ''Zombotany'' was also one, which was used to name the minigame.
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** SummonBackupDancers

** There was originally an ice level for the game. [[DummiedOut It is still in the game]], but nothing like what it was originally like.

* DivorcedInstallment: The game was planned to be a sequel to one of Popcap's older games ''VideoGame/{{Insaniquarium}}''.

** The game was planned to be a sequel to one of Popcap's older games ''VideoGame/{{Insaniquarium}}''.
** Several other names were planned for the game, such as "Lawn of the Dead" and "Mr. Toad's Wild Lawn".

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The original version of the game with the Michael Jackson sprites for the dancing zombie isn't the easiest to get ahold of these days. It has not been sold since the change, meaning your only chance to obtain that version is to either hope you can buy a used physical copy made before then, or find a torrent of that specific version.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://plantsvszombies.wikia.com/wiki/ Here.]]

* WorkingTitle: ''[[Film/DawnOfTheDead Lawn of the Dead]]'' was one of the game's many, ''many'' working titles before ''Plants vs. Zombies'' was finally settled on.
** ''Zombotany'' was also one, which was used to name the minigame.
* PortOverdosed: You can play the original PVZ on Steam, the DS, the Playstation 3, the Xbox 360, the Playstation Vita, Windows Phone 7, Android, iOS, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers your toilet...]]