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Alien vs. Predator cover

1993 · Jorudan · Beat 'em up · Arcade

Alien vs. Predator

Nintendo exclusive

Based on the Alien versus Predator comic book series. During the 25th century, mankind has colonized many planets. On one of these, New Shanghai, strange creatures have been discovered. These aliens cause much havoc.

Released
8 January 1993
Platforms
SNES
Genres
Beat 'em upArcade
Developers
Jorudan
Publishers
ActivisionIGS
Modes
Co-opMultiplayerSingle-player
Perspective
Third personSide view
Themes
ActionScience fiction
Age ratings
GRAC 19+
Languages
English
Time to beat
1hmain story2hwith extras
›Story

The game is set on the planet Vega 4 in the city of New Shanghai. A work crew performing underground construction discovers a colony of Aliens which attack them and then quickly moved to the surface. The city is quickly overcome by the Aliens, but the citizens send out a distress signal to Earth which is also received by a passing Predator ship. The Predators decide to hunt the Aliens on Vega 4, seeing them as challenging prey.

The player battles through six stages, fighting various types of Aliens and bosses. Many of the boss enemies are Aliens which have gestated in different types of animals and thus demonstrate characteristics of those animals. These include an aquatic Alien that emerges from a dolphin, a primate-like Alien gestated in an ape, a winged Alien gestated in a bat, and a snake-like Alien. After battling the Aliens on Vega 4 the player Predator travels to the Orion Nebula for the final stage and battles the Alien queen.

Keywords

  • based on - comics
  • retroachievements
  • fan translation - portuguese

Media

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
SNES8 January 1993Japan · North America 30 September 1993 · Europe 1 November 1993

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