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Classic Game Room reviews ALIEN for Atari 2600 from 20th Century Fox released in 1982, an awesome Pac-Man clone based in the 1979 movie. In Alien (the videogame) you play as Dallas or Ridley (I'm not sure to be honest... does it matter?) and collect Alien eggs to make a fabulous omelette. Dodge aliens, collect power pellets and score bonus points in the middle of the maze - Alien for Atari is better than the actual Pac-Man on Atari!
CGR Alien video game CZcams review has Alien gameplay recorded from Atari 2600 Jr.!
CGR, the choice of games, the cozy intro, the ''ambience''. This show is just superb.
No wonder I'm here since 2000 ;)
Then all around us are new games coming out and then we have karnage reviewing all these old games
CGR is the only channel I've ever seen that actually makes patreon thank yous cool / watchable
It's cool that the game detects when aliens get close to each other and makes them flash to show they are communicating
I'd totally let Mark put his cartridge in my system-anytime ;)
That's entirely to subtle for me to understand the underlying meaning of your words.
However we could always dock our expansion ports together ;)
Drop Mark an email. He's got an entire library of cartridges for your (ahem) system.
+Christopher I'll waggle that wiimote!
No man should ever be allowed to read what I just saw
Cal Miller Why?
Sigourney Weaver chasing Xenomorph while making Pac-Man "waka waka" noise.
:) :D
You have to appreciate that they took the time to copy not just one, but two of th most popular arcade titles of the time.
Wow, such nostalgia going on in my head right now. I had this when I was a kid! My older brother gave me his entire 2600 library once he got a Sega Master System.
Why was there never a Spaceballs: the Video Game? That would have been awesome.
._.
Probably part of Mel Brooks' deal with LucasFilms that he could parody Star Wars so long as their wasn't any tie-in merchandise.
Kind of ironic since he made fun of that in the movie.
acholl980 That was the genesis of that gag. But hey, Gibson got ILM to do the special effects, so it wasn’t all bad.
I'm so glad you are still doing reviews Mark...had us worried a while back there, lol...
Will soon be able to support on Patreon!!
That 70s brown and tan wallpaper is SICK. My childhood photographs have come to life. Now you need to review a 2XL 8 track playing Robot.
I miss CGR...THIS version of CGR needs to come back.
looks alright, I don't have this one, I'll have to find it
I remember this game, I used to played them all the time, and it was a "Pac-Man" type game. "Alien" was a carbon copy of "Pac-Man", and it was an Atari VCS/2600 game from 20th Century Fox, and it was based off the movie. Fox made great games like "Worm War 1", "Turmoil", "Spacemaster X7", "Porky's" and many more great games that Fox published it.
So, I was at the Goodwill and saw this VHS for a movie called Ninja Scroll. I had never heard of it but it looked cool, so I bought it. Seeing that Mark has a Ninja Scroll poster on his wall makes me feel fully justified, and I haven't even watched it yet!
A Tapper clone of The Shining. Brilliant, sir. Brilliant!
Not seeing the resemblance to the Xeno in Alien. Another great review.
It looks better than pacman on atari 2600
Someone emptying their colon onto my 2600 looks better than Pacman on the 2600
To me it visually looks a lot like Nightstalker
So in this game, you play as Ripley who is running around the map stealing eggs from aliens and even crossing the street full of aliens. I like the idea here. Pac-Man and Frogger in a 1982 game based on the 1979 movie.
I was such an arcade Pacman fan (weren't we all) and so disappointed by Atari's offering (weren't we all). I remember being so happy when I found Alien. And I thought I was so smart because no one else knew about it except me. Yes, I was an idiot.
Oh, and BTW, I didn't care if they called it Alien or Art Carney. It was Pacman.
Love the wallpaper, makes me think of the 70's.
Ha yea his original review from 2000 was freaking hilarious! I didn't expect him to revisit this.
I want too make my own Pacman clone:
You play as Mark an Derek-Clons are trying to kill you.
The big dots are beers and if Mark drinks one it gives him a short time to kill the Derek clones.
Well, back in the day there were Pac-Man clones, nowadays there's GTA clones, and I think this clone looks solid.
with sound effects and a game like this it makes me have to wonder what the developer of the Original Pac-Man on 2600 was thinking about coming out with the port he did? This one actually has the sounds that it should have had.
It would be nice to see more remakes of old Atari reviews done by the original CGR in 2000.
Love these reviews!!! Mark´s the best.
I have this game! It's a lot of fun to play!
"You can never have too many reviews of Truxton on Sega Genesis."
Funny i did not see any power pellets on the Nostromo either..... it's cute but silly!!!!
GREAT REVIEW!!
you should replay alien 3 on Sega genesis, that game is actually pretty good, just requires some patience
The ONLY "Alien" video game that ever successfully captured the feeling of the movie and did it RIGHT is a game that absolutely no one has ever heard of. It's "Alien" for the Commodore 64. It's basically a real time strategy board game. the map is three levels of the Nostromo and it also includes the hidden ventilation shafts that you can open grates from the various rooms and enter into. All the characters from the movie are on the ship and you command all of them. In the beginning of the game, one of them is randomly killed by the Alien. What follows is a strategy game where you have to in real time, order the crew members around the ship to get weapons and items to fight the alien while the creature is going around the rooms, ventilation shafts, etc.. damaging the ship. The crew members also have psych levels so if their fear gets too high, they can panic and disobey orders. This can be an issue if they encounter the bodies of their crew members in a dark ventilation shaft and you're trying to get them away from the alien and they're having a complete panic attack. All of this is compounded by the problem that one of the crew members each time you play is randomly an android who will betray the crew and will turn on the crew. If things get hopeless, you can even grab the cat in the cat carrier, set the ship for self destruct and escape in the escape ship, but the escape ship will only handle three crew members. This game is an amazing real time strategy game and is probably one of the first real time strategy games. I've seen LOTS of people talk about "Alien" video games and I've never seen anyone cover this gem when it's the only one that ever actually accurately duplicated the original "Alien" movie and did it the right way.
Idk, I think Super Metroid did a pretty good job :P
What about the DLC for Alien Isloation, it's literally the ending of the original movie.
Yeah, but "Alien" on the C64 acurately simulated the original "Alien" movie with the original characters, the original ship. Super Metroid had nothing to do with that movie other than being influenced by it and being a platforming game that threw a bunch of enemies at you. The C64 game was just like the movie. An unfortunate crew, trapped on board a spacecraft with a single alien creature that was hunting them down one by one, that was also damaging the ship, leaving them no choice but to figure out a way to find it and figure a way to kill it. Also, the thing has acid blood. They modeled that in the game too so if you have a crew member attack it with a weapon that cuts it and acid sprays out, it can damage not only the crew member but it can eat through the hull of the ship and destroy it.
+BlackburnBigdragon if you want the closest experience to the movie why not just watch the movie
You're missing my point. If you make a video game of a movie, don't you think it should be like the movie? This game was the most like the movie out of all the video games that came out at the time. Instead of making "Pac Man" and calling it "Alien" or making a platformer throwing a bunch of random monsters at you which honestly isn't anything like the movie, this game was exactly like the movie. It covered every detail. This game is a gem and by far the best "Alien" franchise game I've ever played.
The aliens look like Pitfall's alligators with tiny legs.
This channel will be handy now that im buying a xbox xbmc with over thousands of classics installed
NOt sure about other 2600 fans, but I never knew this existed!!
So a game like KC Munchkin gets pulled from the market back in the day because Atari declared it to be too similar to Pacman, but this game didn't get pulled?
Wait a minute. This is better than alien 3 on genesis? Bullshit! That game was decent and it got good ratings when it came out
I would much rather play Alien 3 too, the music is great and your weapons actually kill the aliens!
I forgot to mention, its funny that those aliens in the 2600 game dont look like xenomorphs
Alien3 Genesis is freaking awesome
This looks good for a 2600 game. Also Alien Isolation is a great game !
If you have not seen this game, there is a recent episode of "James & Mike Monday's" where they covered movie based games for the Atari VCS/2600 including this game. Go check it out. A great recommendation to watch.
"Extended cut "😆 that was pretty funny. My favorite Alien's game would be AVP arcade, AVP ps3 and Aliens Arcade.
The Few...The Proud... The CGR!!!!!
Is that an Avalon pre-amp on the right??
Had this game. Only ever played it once.
ninja scroll probably my favorite anime ever...
I wonder how this game would look like if remade with today's tech?
Of course with same arcade style gameplay & sounds.
:D
had this game, cool game.
Ninja Scroll poster = Awsome . . .
And the game is pretty great too . . .
Awesome 😈
Holy shit, the dog is still alive! :D
Someone get that man a coaster.
Ingenious.
Id buy this but Im sure everyone out there wants $15 for it.
Racer 5 beer!!
It is weird to think that Alien is such an old movie that it had an Atari game.
Wow its just like the movie!! Oh. No its not really is it?! Better than PacMan though. Great vid!
Saying that it's better than the actual Pacman on the 2600, Alien 3 and Alien Colonial Marines doesn't say much... I mean, what isn't better than those things?
I'll give you this though, it is a Pacman clone on the 2600 that works, that ought to count for something...
Well there is the alien video game for the commodore 64.Which is a little closer to the movie then the atari 2600 version.I wonder if mark ever played that one.
Progearspec I haven't played anything on Commodore 64 but I think I know what game you're talking about because I've seen it in a video... Is it one where the actual play area only takes the top half of the screen and the bottom half is taken up by hud stuff and you navigate a maze or something?
so where is this original review of which mark speaks
Ninja Scroll!
It has 4 levels of play. Important.
That Dog is cuter than mine
Same.
I don't have a dog :_(
I also have a Cat
Cock>cat
its pretty much alien isolation for the Atari
Does anyone have a link to the 2000 Alien on Atari review?
I sent my game to mark right before I started college. Now I just graduated, no review. Thanks lmao
Omg this as really on e3 1985 ?
Mark that's not a good practice putting your Beer & Glass on sensitive electrical devices ... You could FRY everything & be permanently trapped in THE R-ZONE ...
Still better than Aliens Colonial Marines, for sure.
At first I thought you said "MegaGWolf."
This game is as expensive as hell. Sadly I won't be controlling Sigourney anytime soon.
you can use a genesis controller on Atari or is Mark joking?
it is true 😁
This looks more like Pac-Man than the 2600 Pac-Man.
CLASSIC GAME ROOM DOGGO
They mostly play this game at night... mostly.
hi
How much nitrous oxide does Lord Carnage inhale before he reads his thank you's?
Come on Mark, Alien3 on the Genesis is an okay game, much better than a generic as hell Pac-Man clone!
See? I told you he'd run out of games to review. Classic Game Room over. Now Sean Zoltek's about to go missing. They're probably already got him in the Resident Evil underground spire.
collecting eggs in space mmhh eggstraterrestrial ,,, ill see my self out.
my sister runs like that
huh, The Shining is really a Pac Man movie... hmm
Did you ever get your coke?
I just watched the old video and you some how look older in that video. Do you have that Benjamin Button disease? Must be all the beer and video games that keep you young Mark.
vit game reviews
Still better than Prometheus.
Those don't look anything like aliens...
ATARI ALIEN is not only a dissapointing game, but also one of the worst ATARi game
No shining game because that guy says the n word in it
Alien review inception!
What is that Sony keyboard thingy with what looks like I famicom cartridge inserted into the top of it?
Never mind just realized it is a MSX. With possibly load runner in the cartridge slot