Alien

by: Evan Darrow

Publication date: 1993-05-05

Topics: ZZT games, Action

Game created using the ZZT engine.

Readme file: README.TXT

Addeddate: 2016-02-13 15:01:00

Emulator: dosbox

Emulator_ext: zip

Emulator_start: ZZT.EXE ALIEN.ZZT

Identifier: zzt_alien

Scanner: Internet Archive Python library 0.7.8

Year: 1993

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Reviewer: HootyMcOwlface - - April 11, 2016
Subject: Hm...

Kind of reminds me of Indiana Jones on the Atari, in some ways. I found the keyboard controls to be a bit awkward for shooting - I wonder if mouse controls work better? Also, literally the first thing I did was die by talking to... an enemy? I think? whose sprite didn't really look like anything I recognized as such.

One thing I will say, though, is that this is a pretty ambitious little game. It's very limited by the technology of the time, but damned if the people who made it didn't try to stretch those limits. Basically, this is a game that doesn't hold up too well, but when you look at it in the context of the time it was made, it's not bad. Pretty solid DOS game, I think.

Oh man, at first I was just going to say something funny about the spelling of "worriors", and this turned into an actual review. Damn.

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