If you give it enough time, you can amass theoretically any amount of extra lives right on the first level. Here’s how it works: the number of points you’ll get increases exponentially with each enemy you take out on the same single subweapon toss. Get the fire bomb (holy water) and a double or triple shot. Then spawn zombies in trios (when you can: it isn’t always predictable) and chuck a fire bomb at the first one, timing it so that the others go down too. I’m probably making that sound harder than it is; indeed, you’ll sometimes even manage a fourth one! If you keep this up, you’ll gain more lives than you’re losing from running out the timer doing it. Put on a podcast or something and give it a good half hour: your lives will just keep going up and up.
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