Alien3: The Gun
Using cabinet mounted guns you and another player blast away the Aliens in an attempt to save the prison planet. You are also given a limited number of grenades to use when the going gets tough. The gameplay…
Alien3: The Gun is an arcade developed by Sega Enterprises, Ltd., released 1 September 1993 on Arcade.
What Alien3: The Gun is
Alien3: The Gun is an arcade game developed by Sega Enterprises, Ltd. and released in 1993. It is available on Arcade only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Using cabinet mounted guns you and another player blast away the Aliens in an attempt to save the prison planet. You are also given a limited number of grenades to use when the going gets tough. The gameplay is very close to Sega’s other lightgun games from the period such as Gunblade and Jurassic Park. This game was based on the movie of the same name.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Alien series
Alien3: The Gun is the 13th of 76 entries we hold in the Alien series. It arrived 6 months after Alien 3. The next entry was Alien vs Predator: The Last of His Clan in 1993.
What it launched against
Alien3: The Gun launched on 1 September 1993, within three weeks of Master of Orion, Gunstar Heroes and Fatal Fury Special.
Released around the same time: Master of Orion, Gunstar Heroes, Fatal Fury Special.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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