Aliens
Aliens is an arcade game based loosely on the 1986 movie Aliens. You and a friend play female Marines and you must explore and destroy all aliens who have taken over a now abandoned space settlement LV426…
Aliens is an arcade developed by Konami, released 1 January 1990 on Arcade. The main story takes about 3 hrs to finish.
What Aliens is
Aliens is an arcade game developed by Konami and released in 1990. It is available on Arcade only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The multinational conglomerate Weyland-Yutani Corporation has lost contact with its mining colony, Hadley's Hope, in LV426 Acheron. In response, the Colonial Marine troops of the USS Sulaco decide to send their team to investigate. The marines soon discover that the place is infested by an unknown parasitic alien life form and that the Hadley's Hope crew was either exterminated or used as hosts to breed the creatures' next offspring.
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, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Alien series
Aliens is the sixth of 76 entries we hold in the Alien series. It arrived 2 years after Aliens: The Computer Game. The next entry was Alien 3 in 1992.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 5 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Aliens launched on 1 January 1990, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris and Pipe Dream.
Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris, Pipe Dream.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Quick answers
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