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Alien vs. Predator

Based on the Alien versus Predator comic book series. During the 25th century, mankind has colonized many planets. On one of these, New Shanghai, strange creatures have been discovered. These aliens cause much…

8 January 1993

Alien vs. Predator is an arcade developed by Jorudan, released 8 January 1993 on Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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What Alien vs. Predator is

Alien vs. Predator is an arcade game developed by Jorudan and released in 1993. It was published by Activision. It is available on Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game is set on the planet Vega 4 in the city of New Shanghai. A work crew performing underground construction discovers a colony of Aliens which attack them and then quickly moved to the surface. The city is quickly overcome by the Aliens, but the citizens send out a distress signal to Earth which is also received by a passing Predator ship. The Predators decide to hunt the Aliens on Vega 4, seeing them as challenging prey. The player battles through six stages, fighting various types of Aliens and bosses. Many of the boss enemies are Aliens which have gestated in different types of animals and thus demonstrate characteristics of those animals. These include an aquatic Alien that…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Alien series

Alien vs. Predator is the 11th of 76 entries we hold in the Alien series. The next entry was Alien 3 in 1993.

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When did Alien vs. Predator come out?
Alien vs. Predator was released on 8 January 1993 for Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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