Alien

About Alien

The goal of Alien is to move your human character through the hallways of the space ship and crush all the alien eggs which have been placed there by interacting with them. The goal is crush all the eggs, and collect items for points. If an alien interacts with the player, they lose a life. The game ends when the player runs out of lives.

The player must avoid or destroy any adult aliens who also move through the halls. The aliens can be halted briefly in their path by hitting them with a flamethrower, which can only be used once per life. Scattered through the maze are pulsars. When the player interacts with them, the aliens turn blue and become vulnerable to the touch of the human character. Alien uses the difficulty switches on the Atari 2600 console which adjusts the game difficulty. This includes whether the pulsars make the aliens turn blue or not, and changing the movement of the aliens from random to a fixed pattern.

Once all the alien eggs are destroyed, the player enters a bonus round where they have eight seconds to move to the top of the screen and grab the prize shown there. The player does not lose a life if hit in this round.