Alien
Alien is a 1984 strategy/adventure game developed by Concept Software and published by Argus Press Software. It was released in 1984 for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, and later ported to the Amstrad CPC in…
Alien is an adventure developed by Concept Software Ltd., released 31 March 1984 on Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.
What Alien is
Alien is an adventure game developed by Concept Software Ltd. and released in 1984. It was published by Amsoft. It is available on Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
An alien is lurking somewhere within the spaceship Nostromo. The alien has hatched from the body of one of the seven crew members on board, but can the other six crew members kill it in time, before the ship returns to Earth or their oxygen supply runs out?
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are horror, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Alien series
Alien is the second of 76 entries we hold in the Alien series. It arrived a year after Alien. The next entry was Aliens: The Computer Game in 1986.
What it launched against
Alien launched on 31 March 1984, within three weeks of H.E.R.O. and Boulder Dash.
Released around the same time: H.E.R.O., Boulder Dash.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Quick answers
Alien — frequently asked questions
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