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Alien Crush

Fight against the aliens with your pinball skills! Imagine a living pinball machine...with aliens and outlandish worlds to throw at you. And turbo-charged, speed-of-light pinball action. You control the…

14 September 1988

Alien Crush is an arcade developed by Compile, released 14 September 1988 on Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita, Wii U and PlayStation 3.

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What Alien Crush is

Alien Crush is an arcade game developed by Compile and released in 1988. It was published by Hudson Soft. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii and TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Fight against the aliens with your pinball skills! Imagine a living pinball machine...with aliens and outlandish worlds to throw at you. And turbo-charged, speed-of-light pinball action. You control the flippers and ball speed to defeat the Slime, the Tentacloid and Scorpion. Go for the eyes! This is full-tilt, out-of-this-world action! Surrealistic graphics plus true-to-life, earsplitting arcade pinball sound. Achieve the maximum possible score of 10 less than 1 billion and the game ends with the destruction of the table and a congratulatory message. The game is the first installment in the Crush Pinball series. It was followed by three sequels, Devil's Crush, Jaki Crush, and Alien Crush…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

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When did Alien Crush come out?
Alien Crush was released on 14 September 1988 for Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii and TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine.

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