Alien (1982 video game)

Alien
Developer(s) Fox Video Games
Publisher(s) Fox Video Games
Designer(s) Doug Neubauer
Platform(s) Atari 2600
Release 1982
Genre(s) Action game
Mode(s) Single player

Alien is a video game for the Atari 2600 video game console produced by 20th Century Fox. It was the first officially licensed game of the Alien film series.

Development

Alien was developed and published by Fox Video Games, and released in 1982 for the Atari 2600.[1]

Gameplay

Based on the 1979 film Alien, it was a Pac-Man style maze video game in which the player controls a human who must collect eggs while avoiding aliens.[2][3]

Many of the later 20th Century Fox offerings for the Atari 2600 were based on movie franchises. Despite this fact, the game resembles Pac-Man far more than it does anything from the film. The player controls a member of the human crew pursued by three aliens in the hallways of a ship. The goal is to destroy the alien eggs laid in the hallways. The eggs correspond directly to the pellets in Pac-Man. The player is armed with a flamethrower which can temporarily immobilize the aliens. Additionally, "pulsars" occasionally appear which turn the tables, allowing the human to overpower the aliens. These are directly comparable to the "power pellets" used in Pac-Man.

References

  1. ↑ "Alien (Atari 2600) – Release Summary". GameSpot. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
  2. ↑ Corriea, Alexa Ray; Riendeau, Danielle (2014-10-03). "From Atari to Isolation: A video and written history of Alien games". Polygon. Retrieved 2015-07-17.
  3. ↑ Buffa, Christopher (2014). "Alien Evolution – From Atari 2600 to PlayStation 4". Prima Games. Retrieved 2017-09-10.
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