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Alien Invaders

Alien Invaders is a variant of Space Invaders . A 14x5 rectangular formation of enemy spacecraft appears from the top of the screen, and slowly gets closer to the surface of the Earth. You control a mobile…

31 December 1982

Alien Invaders is a shooter developed by UA Limited, released 31 December 1982 on Arcadia 2001.

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What Alien Invaders is

Alien Invaders is a shooter game developed by UA Limited and released in 1982. It was published by Emerson Radio. It is available on Arcadia 2001 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Alien Invaders is a variant of Space Invaders . A 14x5 rectangular formation of enemy spacecraft appears from the top of the screen, and slowly gets closer to the surface of the Earth. You control a mobile missile launcher that can shoot up at the invaders, while the aliens try to bomb you. As in Space Invaders, there are fortifications which can give you some shelter from the bombs, and these are slowly worn away as they are bombarded. There is also an enemy mother-ship that appears overhead, which gives you bonus points. But unlike Space Invaders, there is only one wave. Once the main enemy formation is defeated, you can only gain more points by aiming at the mother-ships until the five…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Alien Invaders launched on 31 December 1982, within three weeks of Trashman, King Kong, Evolution and Xevious.

Released around the same time: Trashman, King Kong, Evolution, Xevious.

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When did Alien Invaders come out?
Alien Invaders was released on 31 December 1982 for Arcadia 2001.

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