1996 · Adventure · Halloween

Alien Incident

One rather typical Halloween eve, Benjamin is witnessing his uncle's attempt to activate the Worm Hole Spawner, his latest invention. The experiment works, and a hole in the sky rips open. Meanwhile in a galaxy far, far away, an entity, chased by a spaceship, accidentally dive into the worm hole which suddenly appears before them. The spaceship hits the brakes and starts to orbit around earth. The commander of the spaceship, Boss, orders a group of aliens to land on earth and bring back the one that's responsible for getting them where they are.

Released: 1996
Platforms: MS-DOS
Genres: Adventure Halloween Point-and-click adventure
Developers: —
Publishers: GameTek Toptronics
Modes: Single-player
Themes: Science fiction Comedy
Country: Finland
Age ratings: ESRB E
Time to beat: 7hwith extras
Composers: Jonne Valtonen

About

Alien Incident (Finnish: Muukalaisten yö, lit. 'Night of the Aliens') is a 1996 point-and-click graphic adventure game. It was developed by Finnish game developer Housemarque and published by GameTek for MS-DOS.

Keywords

aliens
maze
mad scientist
alien abduction
wormhole

Media

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Story

On Halloween, Benjamin Richards is at his uncle's mansion to bear witness to his newest invention, the "Worm Hole Spawner". Upon activation, a wormhole brings an alien spaceship into the Solar System. The aliens kidnap Benjamin's uncle, whom the player must rescue in addition to stopping the alien threat.

Development

The game was initially developed by Bloodhouse (before the company merged with Terramarque to form Housemarque) and it was known during development as Leokadia. In January 1994 a six-person team had developed the game for nine months and it was due for release in Fall 1994 for PC and later for Amiga 1200. The game came out in 1996 for PC and the Amiga 1200 version was cancelled.