I wasn't entirely satisfied with original entry.
Which is why I've created the definitive version, featuring brand new material.
Video games
Gameplay and content varies dramatically.
Title screen
Mega Drive/Genesis vs trailer
Amiga, NES, Game Gear and Mega Drive/Genesis vs Alien
Pushing start in Master System port begins with:
Game Boy
Pushing start in Master System port begins with:
Masked dude's identity remains unknown.
Game Over
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| NES, Amiga and Mega Drive/Genesis |
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| Master System |
This time you're not so lucky nobody finds you.
Your mission is over...
And the interesting part.
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| ...this is Ripley, last surviving member of the Nostromo, signing off... |
Just before film ends, we hear most of the message Ripley recorded on the EEV, including:
"This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off."
It appears they fucked up.
But by pure coincidence (or not?), this is exactly how Alan Dean Foster's novelisation concludes.
Ending
Amiga, Mega Drive/Genesis, Master System, C64¹ Game Gear and NES
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| "It is done.." As Ripley leaves Fury 161 she turns back one last time. |
Screen was 'modelled' on:
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| Aliens Vol 2 issue 4 - May 1990 |
Unbe-fucking-lievable.
For the release of Alien: Quadrilogy (a bullshit expression btw), Ridley Scott and Jean Pierre Jeunet agreed to make alternative versions of Alien and Alien: Resurrection respectively, identical to what James Cameron did with Aliens years earlier.
David Fincher refused.
Following troubled production history, he nearly quit the film industry and at the time famously said:
"I'd rather die of colon cancer than make another movie."
In 2009, Fincher disowned the film, saying "no one hated it more than me; to this day, no one hates it more than me."
As a lost director's cut didn't exist, set producer Charles de Lauzirika cobbled together new version by using the so-called 1991 Assembly Cut.
Even though some audio couldn't be repaired, extended result (featuring never-before-seen footage and effects) was far superior to theatrical version.
This wasn't released in the public domain until December 2003.
Alien³: The Gun (1993)
Super Face-Hugger vs Royal Facehugger
'Oxburster' vs Babe's offspring
If we don't continue...
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| Terrifying image is accompanied by a harrowing scream. |
SNES
The best console adaptation by far goes cherry picking.
Alien
Poster
Cryotube
Aliens
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| Hudson's immortal line is edited as just "Game over man". |
Ending
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| The pistons pushes the Queen to her death. |
Let's check manual.
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| Somewhere in Fury 161, a Queen Alien is spawning dozens, if not hundreds, of offspring that feed on flesh. The alien egg pods are everywhere, but that's only the start of your problems. The aliens multiply by invading human bodies and growing inside them, and they've kidnapped the entire population of 161! |
Kidnapped?
Sure. Whatever.
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| Objectives are clear: free the prisoners that have been trapped in alien cocoons, eliminate the alien offspring that are infesting Fury 161, and destroy the Queen nesting deep within the prison. If this weren't enough, all of this must be completed before the Weyalnd-Yutani ship arrives and gives the xenomorphs an opportunity to escape and infest other worlds. |
Is player pitted against a real-time clock?
No.
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| This is the only version to show Ripley's descent into fiery cauldron. |
End credits
Music is from the final scene of Aliens, just before Ripley and Newt enter hypersleep.
Before manual signs off.
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| This is the pulse rifle. |
(Laughs).
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| It's basically an AR-15. |
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| Thankfully, weapon is more authentic during gameplay. |
And.
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| Reloading: to reload pick up rifle clips located throughtout Fury 161. |
Guess error went unnoticed throughout proof-reading process.
Miscellany
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| Runner is born through Spike. |
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| Comic - issue 1 (June 1992) Dog's name was changed to Sparky. |
Some unofficial cameos.
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| Oscar - CD32 |
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| Super Turrican² - SNES |
²ntbcw 1992 NES game of same name.
Xtro 3³ vs font
³Subbed Watch the Skies in promotional material.
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| No matter what anybody says, the Dragon getting up close and personal with Ripley is cinematic gold. |
More, more, more.
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| Aliens: Horror Show Part 1 - Dark Horse Comics issue 3 (October 1992) |
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| Aliens: Apocalypse - The Destroying Angels - issue 1 (January 1999) |
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| Love, Death + Robots - All Through the House (S2 E6) |
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| Pig Hunt |
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| The Simpsons - Stealing First Base (S21 E15) |
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| Creature (2011) Despite poster ripping off iconic image, antagonist is actually a half-man, half-alligator. |
For unrelated shiggles.
Peter Benchley's 1994 novel White Shark was later republished as Creature in 1997 to capitalize on miniseries adaptation of same name.
Finally, something pretty weird.
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| Fiorina "Fury" 161 Outer-veil mineral ore refinery Double Y chromosome-work correctional facility |
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| Creature aka The Titan Find (1985) June 23 Spacestation: Concorde Licensing owner: NTI Corporation Orbit: Earth's moon |
It's entirely plausible that Alien knock off, simply raped err, Alien.
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| After all, intro is very similar. |
We'll never know.
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