Alien

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Alien
System(s): SC-3000
Publisher: Dotsoft
Developer:
Genre: Adventure

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
SC-3000
AU

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Alien is a graphical text adventure game developed by Australian company Softgold (formerly Gameworx Software), which specialised in multi-load text adventures written in BASIC.

It was released on the SC-3000 in 1984 by Dotsoft, exclusively in Australia. The game was also released on Commodore 64 in the same year.

Gameplay is based on the Scott Adams Standard 2-word verb-noun parser.

Synopsis

Wanted

PROOF THAT UFO'S REALLY EXIST

REWARD

$1,000,000

An Eccentric Billionaire wants a piece of a flying saucer and is willing to pay One Million Dollars for it.

It's a challenge you as a famed astronomer Jason Stargazzer can't refuse ... And besides you need the money

Now racing across the Arizona Desert hot on the trail of the latest UFO sighting, your car is bathed in a mass of coloured lights ..... The engine goes dead .....

Gulp!!

— Box backcover


Screenshots

Physical scans

SC-3000, AU
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Cover
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Cassette
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Instructions

References


Softgold Graphic Text Adventure Games for the Sega SC-3000
Alien (1984) | Ninja (1984) | The Search for King Solomon's Mines (1984) | The Secret of Bastow Manor (1984) | Skull Island (1984) | Thermo Nuclear War Games (1984) | The Case of the Mad Mummy (1985)