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Heavily inspired by the sci-fi movie "Alien", you task is the capture or the killing of the alien on board your ship or the activation of the self-destruct sequence. In order to accomplish that you have to assign your crew memeber different tasks like accessing to the computer system, build weapons etc.
Slowly the U.F.P. Research Vessel Thrasybulus breaks orbit. The planet below shows on the screens as a seething hostile mass of browns and greys. You relax as your crew starts the procedure to prepare the ship for the long voyage through interstellar space. Suddenly an alarm rings. You quickly call the crew to the bridge, where Professor De Vries reports that the alien creature found on the planet below has escaped while she was running some tests on it. In the confusion of its escape, several of the lab animals also got away. It is important that the creature be recaptured, and you quickly g...
United States
December 31, 1982
The Alien was released on December 31, 1982.
The Alien is available on PC-8800 Series, FM-7, Apple II.
No — The Alien is a single-player game.
The Alien was developed by Microcomputer Games, Inc. and published by The Avalon Hill Game Company.