Aliens Arcade Game (Konami)

full play-through of the arcade game

[leonkennedy]

I always begged my mom for us to eat at our local pizza hut because they had this game there. I got so tired of pizza hut but I loved this game so much I didn't care. I lost my mom almost 3 months ago. Thank you mom for doing things you didn't want to do so I would be happy.

[MacGyver_Lamb]

I was so scared of this game when I was a kid lol

Aliens seriously messed me up for a decent portion of my childhood. Predator too.

[LordProteus]

Ah yes, who could forget the Bowling Ball Alien or the Energetic Electro-Magnetism Twins from the film!

[Shadowdancer]

this game had a great creepy soundtrack.

[loverboy]

God I loved this game when I got to go to the arcade

[moomert]

This is a pretty fun game. I always wanted a dedicated ALIENS arcade cabinet. I finally built myself one.
This was the first arcade game I finished back in the day.

[karloffwinkler]

What a good memories, I played this game when I was 15 or 16 years old... High school days 1991...My favorite game and movie.

[TylerDurden-idyp]

My parents had this arcade machine in their cafeteria and I played it a lot there back in the day. I managed to beat the game a couple of times. I remember that the alien queen could be beaten by throwing her out of the hatch and by ripping her to pieces.

[The_KLF]

I used to have this arcade game in my house back in the 90s.
Ended up swapping the game board for Rally X, then Pacland, then wwf superstars.
The good old days.

[omariwilliams]

Konkani dominated back then! Turtles In Time, Sunset Riders! So many classics!

[ulysses]

Saw the movie Aliens on TV in the late 80's as a kid (7 or 8 years old) and it always scared me senseless. So naturally, when I saw this game in a arcade while on holiday with my family, it made me excited and anxious at the same time, lol. Being a young kid at the time though, this game was difficult.

[melisunnymellchris]

1986 - the Graphics are awsome!!! Respect to the whole KONAMI-Team...

[chankljp]

You know... For a movie tie-in arcade game from the 1980s, this game looks absolutely amazing both in terms of gameplay and graphics! Especially when compared to home consoles and PC games from the same period. As a millennial born in the 90s, it really puts into perspective the fact that back in the day, only the hardware for arcades could afford to be the top of the line compared to whatever you can get at home.

[jemo]

I played this game so much with my sister back in 2004, we never made it passed the queen.

[researchandbuild]

The alien queen lost because she didn't have enough quarters to fight back

[FavioRiveros]

I remember that playing this was actually scary! somehow it make you feel like you were in there facing those things!

[ramlethal]

Amazing game. Great spiritual successor to Contra.

[susanfit]

This game is based upon the 1986 movie "Aliens". You and your partner go and shoot as many aliens as possible in this side-scroller.
Aliens is primarily a side-scrolling shooter in which the player must defend against various Aliens, with certain parts of the game switching to a third-person rail shooter perspective. Players can play as either Ellen Ripley or Corporal Hicks, who both begin the game with a smart gun and can upgrade to other weapons such as flamethrowers and missile or grenade launchers. The player is given several health points, one of which is lost if the player is attacked by an Alien. The player loses a life if all the health points are lost, and the game ends if all the player's lives are depleted. Boss enemies are encountered at the end of each level, with the final boss being the Alien Queen, which the player fights with a power exoskeleton loader. A two-player mode is also available. The enemies range from standard ones seen in the films to specialized ones created exclusively for this game. When fighting the Alien Queen, two victorious outcomes are possible. In the first, the player simply opens the airlock, as in the 1986 film. If the player chooses, they can fight the Queen further, wearing her down until she bursts apart.

[ryaquazaoffical]

So that’s where my pink xenomorph figure came from

[baggywhiskers]

This was almost ported to the Sega Genesis back in the day, but never made it to shelves because of a licensing dispute between James Cameron and Konami. As for the arcade, I remember blowing through fifty bucks playing this with my younger brother.