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Alien is a game produced by Argonaut Software in 1984, based on the popular movie of the same name. The game uses very simple black and green graphics, with a little extra color for some text and for the location of the characters.

Alien is a slow moving but suspenseful heavy strategy game. An omnisicent menu driven game, the player was put in charge of all of the crew members of the Nostromo. The game starts with one of the crew members being killed by the alien, which mirrors the death of Kane as he gives birth to the alien in the movie. The player moves the characters around on a map-grid representation of the ship as they search for the alien. Littered around the map are various objects that are useful such as nets, incinerators, laser pistols, and oxygen tanks. The player can order one of the crewmembers to pick up such objects and use them when needed.

The gameplay is challenging in that based on the current situation, the emotional status of your crewmen could change. The emotional status of the crewmembers can range from confident, stable, uneasy, shaken, hysterical, and broken. This means that the crew members will not always obey your orders and can be frozen by fear or unwillingness to enter a hazardous situation. Ordering characters to pick up weapons can positively affect their emotional status and they are more likely to follow orders. Sending a character off alone can negatively effect their emotional status causing them to perform poorly.

Furthermore, like in the film, one of the crewmembers is secretly an android and he will turn on the other crew when the player least expects it.

When the crew is reduced to three, but not before, there is the option of self destructing the ship and escaping in the Narcissus.

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