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System: Atari 2600 VCS
This game, titled after the famous sci-fi movie, is a Pac-Man clone in which you run around a maze racking up points and trying to avoid the alien monsters. Like, Pac-Man, you can grab a powerup to turn the tables on the aliens, but in a nice little twist, only one powerup is on the board at a time and when you grab it, another one appears elsewhere in the maze so the challenge is to get to the powerups without getting eaten. Funnily enough, this is a much better game, and much more fun to play, than Atari’s own version of Pac-Man! Kudos to 20th Century Fox. It really is a shame that they gave up on game development after the industry crash of ‘83 (temporarily, anyway). If they’d kept going, there’s no telling what kind of awesomeness they could have produced for the NES. Oh well.
This game, titled after the famous sci-fi movie, is a Pac-Man clone in which you run around a maze racking up points and trying to avoid the alien monsters. Like, Pac-Man, you can grab a powerup to turn the tables on the aliens, but in a nice little twist, only one powerup is on the board at a time and when you grab it, another one appears elsewhere in the maze so the challenge is to get to the powerups without getting eaten. Funnily enough, this is a much better game, and much more fun to play, than Atari’s own version of Pac-Man! Kudos to 20th Century Fox. It really is a shame that they gave up on game development after the industry crash of ‘83 (temporarily, anyway). If they’d kept going, there’s no telling what kind of awesomeness they could have produced for the NES. Oh well.
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