Aliens

Aliens

Released1990
Aliens is an arcade game based loosely on the 1986 movie Aliens. You and a friend play female Marines and you must explore and destroy all aliens who have taken over a now abandoned space settlement LV426 Acheron. If you can find any survivors try to rescue them. As well as your normal gun there are other weapons that can be used to help you. A Caterpillar P-5000 can also be found and used. Aliens is mainly a side view horizontal shooter where the screen scrolls as you move from left to right. Some parts of the game require you to look behind the hero firing into the screen as aliens come towards from the distance as well as moving in other directions like in a lift. You can also be driving into the screen trying to shoot aliens.
79Wit Score

Details

DeveloperKonami
ReleasedJanuary 1, 1990
StatusReleased
GenresShooterArcade
ThemesActionScience fiction
PlatformsARC Arcade
ModesSingle playerCo-operativeSplit screen
SeriesAlien

Wit-Index Intelligence

Community Score
Worth Playing79/100

About This Game

A remote mining settlement on a distant planet has gone silent, prompting a military response from the Colonial Marines. When the soldiers arrive at the abandoned colony, they uncover a horrifying truth: the facility has been overrun by a terrifying extraterrestrial organism that reproduces through parasitic means. The few colonists who haven't been killed have been transformed into vessels for the creature's reproductive cycle, leaving the marines to confront both the aliens and the grim fate of the colony's inhabitants.