In 1979 a science fiction, horror film, directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon became the stuff of nightmares for movie goers everywhere, that nightmare was Alien. Best known for it’s extremely graphic scene of blood and gore, as an impregnated Alien baby rips through the stomach of actor John Hurt (Kane). The story line follows the crew of the commercial space tug, called the Nostromo. The on-board computer known as 'Mother' awakens the crew from cryosleep instructing them to investigate a distress beacon of unknown origin on a nearby planetoid. However, what the crew don't know is that, Mother and Ash, the two non-human members of the crew had already been programmed by the company that owns the Nostromo to obtain an Alien and that all other objectives are secondary, which means that the crews life are of no consequence and most of them in fact, will die. The movie is excellent giving the movie watcher an immense sense of hopelessness and disbelief. As the movie unfolds, the crew of the Nostromo eventually learn just how ginormous and terrifying a threat the Alien is to their own survival. An all star cast including Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto. The movie upon release was met with critical acclaim and box office success, winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, three Saturn Awards (Best Science Fiction Film, Best Direction for Scott, and Best Supporting Actress for Cartwright). In 2008, Alien the movie was ranked by the American Film Institute as the seventh-best film in the science fiction genre, and as the thirty-third greatest film of all time by Empire magazine. Since the release of the film, it's has spawned a media franchise of sequel and prequel films, novels, comic books and video games. An 8-Bit video game was released around 1984, revolving around the same plot of the movie. You are commanding the crew members to track the Alien down among the 35 different rooms of the spaceship with two options of succeeding - send the Alien out of an airlock into space or leave it on the ship and press the self destruct button while you survive through an escape pod. Sinclair User#37, April 1985, scored it 7 out of 10 for the Spectrum version. AA, issue 1, October 1985, scored it 65% overall for the Amstrad CPC version and the Lemon64 website review gave it an overall 6 out of 10. Movie is excellent but the game could have been better.
9 out of 10 for the movie
6 out of 10 for the game