The Thing was one of the greatest horror movies of all time, a 1980's horror film about a parasitic extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates and then imitates other organisms such as the American researchers in Antarctica who encounter this disgusting parasite as the "Thing". Although this post isn't so much about the 1982 gore fest it is about the latest Commodore Amiga game called ' The Zing ', which is inspired by that very movie.