Aliens review [Arcade] - SNESdrunk
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Somehow, he manages to make "any way you can" be the best audible version of a wink and a nudge I've ever heard.
Yeah, but what is the BEST any way you can? I’ve tried asking him what emulator he thinks is best but never get an answer
@@KingVVIlly You can find all the information you want in the emulation wiki. For arcade game, I believe Mame is generally agreed to be the best emulator currently.
@@KingVVIlly just use retro arch
That thumbnail! It’s what Aliens would have looked like if it was made by Lifetime and starred Elizabeth Berkley as Ripley.
Yeah and 4 years after the movie came out. My guess it was to see Ripley easier with the hair change.
Lifetime lol
An apt description
Aliens: Show Girls edition
@@MrDeedsly More likely they had the rights to the movie but not Weaver's likeness, so they had to change Ripley's look.
Screech would be the Alien
My neighbor had a few arcades in his garage back in the day (late 80s early 90s) and he had this one. I vividly remember knocking on his door on the weekends, him unlocking his garage and saying, "go to town" and I'd get eye blasted by games like this for hours. Good times!
Note from the Konami Legal Team: As you are making the Aliens arcade game, and especially as you make the promotional flyer, keep in mind we don’t have the rights to Sigourney Weaver’s likeness. We don’t want her to sue us, so make absolutely sure nobody will mistake our Ripley for Sigourney.
I used to walk to a corner store 30 minutes from my house just play this back in the day. Still play it on a raspberry pi console.
Yep had to ride my bike a town over to go to a hobby shop had this a neogeo cab stunt driver fx and the Simpsons
@@Mikey-zj8bn Those were the greatest days ever! I remember me and my brother would find change on the ground or in anyway we could, and ride our bikes up to the "Lil' Champ" gas station to buy candy. There was also a guy in the comments section talking about how his movie theater still has the Simpson's game! Isn't that amazing!? I would be up there almost every day playing that!
@@They_drew_first_blood the good old days. I used to walk home from school on purpose even though my parents gave me money for the bus just to play arcades on my way home.
@@guillermogallegos87 that's amazing dude
I play it on my phone when I'm taking a dump lol
Ah yes, the most terrifying xenomorphs of all: the pink ones.
My local pub still has this cabinet, it looks original too
“Game over, man! Game *OH*ver!!! (voice cracks)” - the immortal Bill Paxton
"Then fuckin' put her in charge!!!"
SNES drunk mostly reviews in the morning... mostly.
Lol #aliensref
This is the best comment.
I got that reference.
Why dont you let him in charge
I remember as a kid being terrified of the Aliens film.... and this game at the arcade freaked me out too... but I still wanted to play it.
Maaan, nostalgia. This thing had a permanent residence at our local mom-and-pop video rental place, and I’d sink so much money into it.
I have very specific memories of blowing what felt like $100 finishing this game at the arcade in a theme park called King’s Dominion in early middle school. Just showed my oldest daughter the first (read: only) two movies in the franchise. Might have to play through it together on Archive.
That's not true
I really remember playing it there, but if you were there and remember it differently, then maybe I was never in middle school at all. Spooky.
It is a shame they never made any more Alien films. I really wonder what they could have been like. Oh well, there is still comic books and novels I suppose.
Wasn’t my money.
Also, I don’t know if you heard, but somebody told me it might not have happened. I was so sure, though.
I remember first playing this as a tot at Circus Circus in Vegas. There was a giant floor of arcade machines but this was the one I wanted to play the most. Chest bursters still give me nightmares. Good review! Thanks!
I always wondered why so many games about Xenomorphs shied away from making crazy-ass Giger designs. That was my big complaint with Alien v. Predator arcade, was that the enemy design was too repetitive. This one leaned into the weirdness and I appreciate it.
True. The Xenomorphs taking the characteristics of various host species lends itself so much to varied enemy design. Oh well, at least there's still the Tarkatan Xenomorph from MKXL
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To be honest I hate its tiny kidney bean head. Doesn't stop it from being my main but the design isn't great.
@@SharkAlien66 I understand _why_ they did it, so that they wouldn't have to completely reanimate every character's Fatality, X-Ray, and Brutality to fit a different shaped head, but yeah, it does look kinda weird.
The colors used in this game look like something out of an 80s fever dream.
That's one of Konami's signature styles from the late 80s early 90s. Very Cartoony and very colorful.
@@13Gangland I dunno, I played several of those games back in the day and I don't remember anything that looked quite like this. I mean, pink xenomorphs 😋
@@SonicDMonkey Alien syndrome featured off colored xenos, but more notably there were several run and gun based arcade games with generic xeno style enemies with crazy colors including pink. If anything I think the official Aliens was basically late to the party.
I remember finding this arcade as a kid on an Air Force base in Florida. I loved playing it! And the picture of the Alien on the side of the arcade cabinet was so freaking awesome!
One of my dearest memories was a Christmas vacation to Door County, WI when I was in the second grade. We stayed at a great hotel with an indoor pool and mini arcade room with Pac Man JR, Donkey Kong JR, and ALIENS. The day we were supposed to go home a historic blizzard came through and cancelled school for a week. The week after that the teachers in Chicago went on strike. My family ended up spending weeks on vacation because the hotel was cheap and we couldn’t go home, so I spent every day swimming with my siblings and playing those awesome arcade cabinets. Spent 20 years looking high and low for an Aliens cabinet and didn’t find one until Galloping Ghost opened up.
This game came out four years after the movie was released (and its different from the home computer games.) I remember playing this back in 2005 on an older version of MAME though. My favorite parts of this game are the sections where you shoot the Xenomorphs and other aliens on the APC (which was cut out of the Japanese version though).
Man, I fricken love your channel. It's total comfort food right now.
Wow, I just can't get past how *garish* those colors are. I mean, even 1990 would be looking at that going, "ehh... don't you think it's a bit much?"
It's because some of these old games don't look quite right on mame. The arcade monitors were tuned to have a darker picture that made the colors look more natural. On mame you get the raw output of arcade board, so it looks washed out, or like a neon hellscape depending on the game.
Loved playing this game as a kid since I was a huge aliens fan. One of the few arcade games I beat. Would love to play it again.
This was at a local 711 when I was growing up. Me and my dad would play it. We wouldn't get very far, but loved every minute of it's soul crushing difficulty. It also had cool music and the cabinet was turned up.
This game was my childhood addiction, easily in my top 5 Arcade games. Today I play it any way I can on my PS Vita and Wii U.
Wow, never seen this in the wild. Would've loved this as a kid.
A place called Wright's Barnyard had them (It was later renamed DZ's Hollywood or DCs or something like that). Im not sure if it was a chain but there were at least 3 here in NW Indiana / Chicagoland area. It was a great game that never got a home port. They always had a good selection, I remember playing Street Fighter 1 there, but it wasnt the big button version.
was thinking the same thing
man you missed out...this game was GOAT when I was a kid
Mee too.
it was at my local arcade as a kid. Was sure to play it every time I went. Great game
Most of these videos, I end up listening to the intro and restarting several times as I consider the tonal nuances of every one. today's was great!
I remember playing this game at the Phoenix mega-arcade back in '90. I was a huge fan of the movies, so the concept as well as the fantastic graphics and sound instantly captivated me. I quickly learned how much of a quarter-hog this game was though. I never could get very far.
"Tasha Yar!" Now that is a throw back! Props for you on that one! Also, wonderful channel. Keep up the awesome work. I'm a SNESdrunk addict!
I’m guessing the character doesn’t look like Sigourney Weaver to avoid paying for her likeness but it’s convincing enough. Definitely a fun, yet quarter munching game. Played it a lot at Tilt.
Jeenkz K sounds accurate haha
Badass review as always. I’m having a tough day and your video brought a smile to my face, thanks. 🤘
One of my favourite arcade games of all time. Used to go to my local arcade and complete it frequently as a kid. Cheers.
Ok, first, thank you for this video: a lot of memories of my youth time!
Second, as you said, partially I think, the flamethrower is cool, but, after watching the video, you "missed the point" (sorry :) ): the flamethrower is the ONLY way to play that game. I spent lot of money playing that game again and again until I was able to complete with just one coin and the flamethrower was the best ally. For who interested, after completing the game and the credits, I got a "free coin", so I replayed the game. And I won it again and then it's over. Pratically I remember this game like you know what's inside your wallet.
The version I played in my country had no car levels, which I found really hard when played this game in last years, I could say it's a bit unbalanced, but maybe it's just me, for sure, I have no quick reflexes when I played this game back in the 90's.
Thank you again, this was my favourite arcade game, especially because we were in the full period of Cameron's Aliens, great movie, great second chapter of a wonderful saga.
I remember playing this and gosh.... SO FREAKING AWESOME. That arcade cabinet poster image is the most early 90s thing I've ever seen and I absolutely adore every bit of it.
I remember playing this in Flagstaff AZ when we went to the Grand Canyon back in 93. At the time I thought I poured in like a million quarters into this game but realistically was probably about five bucks.
They had this at the local laundry mat and my friends and I would play it non-stop while our mothers did the laundry. Was about 8 years old at the time. Suuuuch fond memories.
The way Ripley and Hick scoot around on their knees while firing, lol.
I've never actually seen this game in any arcade - this is the first time I've even heard of it.
Man, I just started a gaming blog the other day and my 2nd entry was about this game, same week as this video. Trippy.
I was 5 when this cabinet came out, I remember being mesmerized by its demo mode at an arcade somewhere in Cape Cod. That was my first experience seeing anything Alien related which was the start to an early life obsession and a lifelong fascination.
As someone who ranks Aliens alongside Robocop as one of his favourite movies in addition to collecting unconverted game pcb’s this game was an absolute must own for me. One I always come back to.
I vividly remember seeing this game in the lobby of a movie theater when I was 7 years old. As a kid with a morbid fascination with Aliens, having accidentally seen it at a very young age and being completely scared shitless by it, I was absolutely blown away with this game.
Many, many, many years ago, I stepped into the local Supercade with about $10 in quarters with the mission of beating this game. Fond memories :)
Wow dude, I was really just looking at buying an Aliens arcade cabinet just yesterday! Talk about a coincidence. I absolutely loved this game back in the day.
Unfortunately I doubt there will be a remaster or re-release because legal reasons so it is shame, this game is great!
This was one that I always had to put at least a couple of tokens in to every time we went to the mall arcade. This, and Robocop were a couple of my favorites.
Have a great rest of YOUR day. :)
NO!! YOU have the great rest of your day.
Such a good game. One of my earliest arcade memories
Ah sweet memories. I remember seeing this game on a camping arcade while visiting France for 2 weeks. Didn't beat it there haha; I got like... 3 levels in?
Years later I was able to play and finish it on the arcade emulator MAME. Good stuff. Yeah it's cheap and short, but the boss fights are crazy and it's a fun game to co-op.
I used to beat two this game two times with one credit when my parents had arcade machines in my home in the early 2000. Good times.
I used to love playing this in arcades back in the day. It had the hypest music in some of the levels. I remember it being a quarter muncher though.
I love Aliens (Arcade). When I visited Galloping Ghost last year it was the first game I played. Childhood favorite by a mile.
Years ago when we were stationed at Travis AFB they had this arcade machine along Final Fight and Toki. After my brother and I would get done bowling we would then spend the rest of our time and allowance for the week playing the games and sometimes quarter dumping until we beat Aliens. Such fun times, I really want this cab for my collection one day.
i loved this game as a kid, it was at my local pizza hut along with x-men. i threw so many quarters into both of those cabinets.
Pizza Hut was glorious in the 90's. We only ate there during buffet hours since it was so cheap but free refills, all you can eat pizza and a few arcade cabinets was Cloud 9 to us. My brother was just talking about it at his son's bday in March. Playing TMNT mostly and other arcade games there with him are memories I cherish. His kids all love Mario and TMNT so it is fun making new ones even without the glorious setting of Pizza Hut. Sorry I went down a nostalgia hole.
@@MrDeedsly no need to apologize for waxing nostalgic when you're talking about the 90's, it was a superior decade to be a teen.
I love the snesdrunk intro but man the SegaDrunk is just perfect lol
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This was one of my favorites back then. It was intense.
Kid me walking into local arcade and seeing an Aliens Cabinet: *"...Woah."*
Aw man, this game is wild! I love its bonkers action and especially the *intense* soundtrack!!!
Seeing this makes me feel really old lol. I remember playing this as a kid. I was 9. Played it at the airport in London during an extremely long layover. That and the awesome Simpson game arcade. I've been trying to get this game for years. Pity they never released it on console lol. Have a great day
Back in the day, I had a cousin who was super into this arcade and he managed to finish the game with 1 quarter.
Thank you. I played this game once as a child and never forgot about it. I couldn't remember the name of it. I remembered it being patterned after Aliens, but I didn't remember it being a licensed tie-in. The boss at 0:45 has never left my memory.
The standing shooting allows you to move faster; when you use the low shot your movement dropped is cut in half. That said, the crouching shot is infinitely more useful.
Aliens is one of the best movies ever made. I dont care what anyone says
You're not wrong
Not that controversial of an opinion.
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One of my all time favorite arcade games!
I used to play this all the time as a teen whenever I went to the arcade with my Friend
My buddy has this cabinet in his tattoo shop. Love it!
They could've easily ported this to the Genesis and SNES back in the day
Rights to port the game to other systems may have been a problem.
it would have been majorly scaled back, plus you would have lost all of the into the screen levels as neither system could do hardware sprite scaling.
I saw a guy beat this hole game with just one token, when I was a kid.
BTW, the japanese version has more gore, compared to the us version.
Muchos viciosos de entonces lo acababan con una sola ficha. Aquí llego solamente la versión japonesa, muchos años después con los arcades hackeados de mas de 1000 juegos se pudo probar la versión americana con el carro de combate que al final salía Newt con su muñeco. Grandes recuerdos man! Saludos desde la cuarentena.
@@AM-ss9he Pucha man! Ni digan, las arcadias eran todo un espectáculo, donde la gente se reunia alrededor (vagos, fresas, ambulantes, rateros, todo un circo XDXDXDXD) Donde los retos de peleas, los beatem up, los plataformeros, etc etc eran un mate de risa y cólera XDXDXD En fin, épocas que no regresaran, ya que ahora la chiquillada esta acostumbrada a jugar en linea desde la comodidad de su casa (muy pocos los que socializan) . Saludos
It's in my top 10 arcade games. Just played it today on the pandora saga console.
I've only recently got back into vintage gaming, and the pandora console has been fantastic. It has all of the arcade games I loved growing up in the 80s n 90s.
One of my absolute favorite arcade games back in the 90's!!!!!!!!!
This is my favourite arcade game of all time, even to the point where I hunted down an arcade machine and an arcade board, just to have a legit copy of it at home.
So basically it's a Contra game, except this time they actually got the license to use Xenomorphs instead of just using knockoffs
Exactly what i was thinking
I played this all the time at the Pizza Hut by where I grew up. I wouldn’t get very far but I loved playing it. A few years ago I was at a restaurant in Wyoming and saw Aliens there and I had 30 dollars in my wallet and was going to do whatever it took to finally beat it. It took 29.50 to do so, but it was the most satisfying video game completion I have ever had for a super fun game!
Ah, I remember playing this a lot of times in the Arcades... Was one of my favorites!
I remember seeing this arcade game when I was a kid and now I got to play it. 😀👍🎮
This game looks awesome! Thanks, I'll definitely be playing it any way I can!
I have fond memories of this game my cousins and I played and finished it multiple times during one long summer. It the only cabinet that kept our interest
Played this all the time. The world of longplay does an amazing run of the game. The Flame Thrower is the OP of the game.
the flamethrower is OP as hell. it sucked when you accidentally pick up the 3-way shot.
I love and love this game. Grew up with it when I was a kid!!!!! Thank you!
Played this when on vacation at the Jersey Shore as a kid! Spent so much money to get to the end.
What's with the blonde sexy Ripley in the cover? :)
That my friend was some amazing thumbnail bait. 😂
It was the art on the side of the arcade cabinet, also used in poster/magazine promos. If I remember correctly they didn't have the rights to the actors likeness.
To answer the query about high v low shooting: high allows you to move with minimal speed restriction with is vital for some sections where screen spawn points introduce several at a time. This happens especially on the 2nd loop. Not sure I’d make a comparison to AvP either: very different game design/focus
I absolutely love this game! Definitely one of my favorite arcade classics ever!👍
Another arcade game I had no idea existed! Wild!
(I like the fakeout not doing Alien 3: The Gun)
I didn't even know it existed how awesome.
My brother built a 4 player 9 buttons each MAME cabinet a few years back. Beast of a setup with Hyperspin and all the bells and whistles. We played through the Simpsons and several others. For me this one was priority number 1. And yes even with having to just press a button under the console to ad credits, we burned through well over 30 each. Awesome game though.
I may have gone to college if I hadn’t spent my savings on that game. 🤷🏻♂️
Def one of my faves as a kid. Many a stolen quarter spent at the local hot dog shack playin this one. So wild and colorful.
This looks like that Genesis game I forget the name. Alien Storm I think?
Yeup, Alien Storm. Drunk did a video on that one too!
This game was killer, as I had it at the bowling alley across the street from where I worked in Santa Monica back in the early 90's. I would play everyday and try to get further each time with 1 quarter, and even today, I can go a good ways on 1 credit(never finish, but get close). This game is like Metal Slug, in that if your good enough and take your time, it's far from unfair, and is probably one of my favorite arcade titles of all time. And that's saying something, as I've been around since arcades were an actual thing. LOL
I used to own this game cabinet. I found it on eBay in the early 2000s. It was fun, used to play with my brother. Didn't have a lot of replay value and was fairly short
MAME must be so fun, oh you want me to add some coins 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you
Best beat em up of all time is cadillac & dinosaurs!
That was really creepy. I honestly just finished watching Alien at almost the exact time this video was published.
I recently learned if i just skip past the video intro i can actually tolerate these vids
I remember seeing this game only one time in Edmonton Mall in Canada. Was shocked it existed and I never ran across it before. Lots of tokens were lost and never could beat it.
Supposedly this was gonna be the official game of the Aliens cartoon tie-in that never materialized.
My fiancée and girlfriend of five years just broke up with me and here I am getting (SNES)drunk to your awesome videos. I appreciate you dude, your videos keep me sane.
There actually was a Sega Genesis version of Aliens set for release, but it was cancelled after a licensing dispute between James Cameron and Konami. I remember hearing about it when I was a kid.
Another great arcade only game that we never got at home. At least theres MAME. It was always a favorite of mine. Our local Wrights Barnyard had it. Was that a chain? I know there was on in Lansing, IL and one in Valparaiso, Indiana (past Southlake Mall) and another one in Crestwood/Alsip near the Crestwood Ice Arena - that one was 2 floors. I remember after they became DZ's Hollywood (something like that) they would have a special during wither the Winter or Summer ( I wanna say Summer) that all the machines were 1 token, even the Str Wars Trilogy arcade, House Of The Dead 2 and all the cool machines that were normally 2 to 4 tokens a pop. They closed in like 2001-ish. It was an awesome place. That, Celebration Station (a place like Chucky Cheese), and Photon(an awesome lassr tag like place that used to play the ternimator 2 theme when you were getting ready to go to "Battle") were the coolest shit evere, and the perfect place to have your Birthday Party at, of and Discovery Zone.
Just check an article and the one in Lansing - the one I went to the most - closed down in 2006 after 80-94 expanded too far for them to run it. I remember seeing the Mini-golf from the E-way for years after that.
2nd EDIT: I just found out that Discovery Zone bought it out towards the end, and thats why it was called DZ's Holly Park, as in Discovery Zone. I do think it was a Chicago land area only thing
Man! I used to play this at my local arcade place back in my days at jr high, I got so good at it I could beat it in one credit. Great video!!
This is not like the arcade Aliens vs. Predator but this Aliens arcade was still phenomenal back then 😍.