Aliens: The Computer Game (Software Studios)

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Aliens: The Computer Game

Cover art of C64 version
Developer(s) Software Studios
Publisher(s) Electric Dreams Software; re-released by Ricochet (UK), Proein Soft Line (Spain)
Designer(s) Mark Eyles
Release date(s) Europe December 31, 1986
United States December 31, 1987
Genre(s) First-person shooter, side-scrolling video game
Mode(s) Single player
Platform(s) Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum
Media Cassette
Input Keyboard, Joystick

Aliens: The Computer Game is a first-person shooter video game released in 1987 and based on the second film in the Alien film series. A game developed by Activision is also called Aliens: The Computer Game. While the Activision game consists of six minigames based on the movie, the Software Studios game is based solely on action and is much simpler.

Aliens: The Computer Game was the first home computer game to use digitised images in cut scenes.[1]

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