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Aliens: The Computer Game

Aliens: The Computer Game is a 1986 video game developed by Software Studios and published by Electric Dreams Software initially for Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. It is based on the film of the…

31 December 1987

Aliens: The Computer Game is an adventure developed by Software Studios, released 31 December 1987 on Amstrad CPC, Commodore 16, Commodore C64/128/MAX and Commodore Plus/4.

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What Aliens: The Computer Game is

Aliens: The Computer Game is an adventure game developed by Software Studios and released in 1987. It was published by Electric Dreams Software. It is available on Amstrad CPC, Commodore 16, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore Plus/4, MSX and ZX Spectrum.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Aliens: The Computer Game is a 1986 video game developed by Software Studios and published by Electric Dreams Software initially for Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. It is based on the film of the same title. Ports for the Commodore 16 and MSX were developed by Mr. Micro and published in 1987. Aliens: The Computer Game is played from a first-person perspective and is set inside an atmosphere processing plant, a maze complex consisting of 255 rooms. The player encounters Alien enemies throughout the game. Upon killing an Alien, the body leaves a deadly pool of acid blood that must be avoided. The player also faces the threat of bio-mechanical growth, which, if left uncontained…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Alien series

Aliens: The Computer Game is the fifth of 76 entries we hold in the Alien series. The next entry was Aliens in 1990.

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What it launched against

Aliens: The Computer Game launched on 31 December 1987, within three weeks of Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus and Head Over Heels.

Released around the same time: Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus, Head Over Heels.

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When did Aliens: The Computer Game come out?
Aliens: The Computer Game was released on 31 December 1987 for Amstrad CPC, Commodore 16, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore Plus/4, MSX and ZX Spectrum.

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