Hello Ricardo here and today we've got alien syndrome on the Atari ST to talk
about so alien syndrome is a two player soldier top-down shoot-'em-up the
players are called Ricky and Mary who fight their way through eight large
scrolling levels while rescuing their Chrome rods who have been held by aliens
as if sound familiar it's in my opinion a total rip of the film by Ridley Scott
a young and rich good as well even looks like Sigourney Weaver and the people who
are being captured looked like they'd be imprisoned by one of the Geiger aliens
so after you rescued a certain number of hostages the exit Oakland you go to the
X bed you get attention to the pasture the thief and you plant that and then on
to the next level alien syndrome is to play as simultaneous gameplay and get
pickers and lasers flamethrowers form and going from panels that are located
in the walls on top of that there are also maps you can get well proceed where
additional crew members make a map Locksley depicted by flashing little
white dots on a red background to see exactly where those are the members who
can rescue them as you progress you can pick up better weapons on this level
what a fantastic fun game so let's talk about thought so in 1988 sagain was
reported to the sega master system dmsx the amiga atari st amstrad CPC commodore
64 and Nintendo Entertainment System and that was published by tengen later the
game was ported as that x-factor in 1989 and the sega game gear
92 now this is an arcade port and the only perfect court to completely
replicate what was going on on the arcade was on the sharp x68000 in 1992
and that was being spied industry as the only perfect chord the game was also
converted to polygonal graphics to the ps2 and sequel scream relief of the same
name for the Wii the Wii U and PSP for the original arcade version of the game
did get critical acclaim and was one of the most gripping games that some of the
reviewers found with an alien's like horror atmosphere chilling sound and
special effects so imma leave with a bit more gameplay as you can see we're
getting to the end now because the first level I've got a little over that's
shooting in multiple directions and I've got a lever
paying attention to the maps as well you can also see where the people are so if
you've missed any and here's the Box shootings illegally rooms outdated and
I've died not to worry there though a few more life left so as with all my
games that I'm showing on this retro series they come directly from the Atari
ST hence the texture quality now it's be imported in through a video capture card
onto a pc by the IRS cable so that's why the picture quality is slightly grainy
it also means that i'm not using any emulators directly from the atari st
which i'm playing with with a chemical joystick night so I've defeated that
boss now and the bonus points have been awarded a little bit of time for the
game to load round two and a slightly different change of graphics you've got
the pickups and the map and the crew members that are stored in some sort of
little part of the alien to capture daman so the a is now looked like the HR
Giger aliens of the the films that film series now this blue mesh don't touch
that that will kill you and also don't touch that blue stuff that the aliens
are coming out of this level very indicative of the aliens film it does
look like the hangar bay of the Sulaco
then i got flame thrower for the center of all new leader and the good thing is
that you don't lose your weapon upgrades when you die a little robot at the
multi-directional firing click check with a map you know my people are you
get the point where you can see don't form that mesh all this remaining crew
members are on the right hand side of the screen oh very important to the
seducer this is the first play I haven't played this game in menu I'm sure there
are people out there who can play it by the night finishing up the last load of
aliens on our quest round to get crew members they've a laser I like the laser
it's staying hurry up and there's a time limit the bottom of the screen by do you
have a hundred and fifteen seconds left
that robot is making short work of any aliens I haven't think in through the
doors and the trial pod chamber
we've already got that laser picking up multiple versions of the same weapon
will make it any more powerful you can operate in c and remove one person lat
minh and the top right-hand corner of the screen and it's off to the exit
kenton josek even after all these e to carry sensitive and it's got loose
connective inside there is no no digital version for no micro especially after
last birth and now off to the exit now I don't progress much further than if my
first plane and the creation of this video I clean Ricardo and it had been
alien syndrome on the atari st thank you very much for watching and please check
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