Aliens

released on Mar 01, 1990

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 Acheron. If you can find any survivors try to rescue them. As well as your normal gun there are other weapons that can be used to help you. A Caterpillar P-5000 can also be found and used. Aliens is mainly a side view horizontal shooter where the screen scrolls as you move from left to right. Some parts of the game require you to look behind the hero firing into the screen as aliens come towards from the distance as well as moving in other directions like in a lift. You can also be driving into the screen trying to shoot aliens.


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Lamest death scream of all videogames.

Big fan of the aggressive colors and motion sensor mechanics but otherwise it's a fairly slow run-n-gun with occasional dives into shoot-em-up and beat-em-up gameplay. It's charming, I'd play it again if I saw the cabinet, mostly due to it being a title that's easy to learn and improve at, but otherwise a little dull.

played with C_F via fightcade

Pretty mediocre, really. We fed so many credits that I don't think I ever really grasped what was taking place, similar to Konami's TMNT game the previous year. I did feel that the controls were quite limited, and the sfx were a little grating (especially on death, which happened a lot). Looks quite nice for the time, though.

Either way, as a whole Aliens doesn't deliver much and gets beaten out hardcore by some of Konami's other run and guns. It's quite hard not to notice with the masterful Sunset Riders releasing only a year after, but in addition the already existing Contra ports for home consoles were much more enjoyable as well.

I read somewhere that this was slated for a Genesis release in 1991, but it failed to materialize. Probably would have felt redundant anyway with Alien Storm releasing for the console that same year. I would definitely replay Alien Storm over this.

Fun Konami Arcade game, I like the weird movie differences too like Ripley's color scheme. AVP is the superior Alien Arcade experience but this is also great.

Shockingly dull. Like playing Contra at quarter speed.

Interesting belt-scrolling run-and-gun from Konami. I feel like it's too repetitive and dull to really be all that fun to play, though. Japanese version is better than the World/US version (the latter mostly just makes it more tedious), but even that one I'm not a huge fan of.