Alien Carnage
Apogee Software released Alien Carnage for IBM PC MS-DOS 3.3 in 1994. Alien Carnage is four-mission scrolling run and gun and platform game.
Alien Carnage was programmed by Robert Crane and Tony Ball, drawn by Steven Stamatiadis, designed by John Passfield and Steven Stamatiadis, and composed by Steven Baker and George Stamatiadis.
Alien Carnage is a PC-exclusive game.
Alien Carnage displays in double-buffered 256-color VGA 320x200 and features non-smooth parallax multi-directional screen-scrolling of a 288x144 active drawspace.
In Alien Carnage players assume the role of agent Harry of Space Station Liberty. With the remote help of Diane, Harry's mission is to neutralize an alien invasion of Earth by recuing hostages and shooting zombies and aliens.
Alien Carnage requires an i80286 CPU, 565K of free conventional memory, 64K of EMS/XMS memory and an VGA graphics card with 512K vRAM. Alien Carnage audio supports Creative Labs' Sound Blaster and Sound Blaster Pro as well as Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 and PC Internal Speaker.
Alien Carnage controls support keyboard, two-button joystick and four-button Gravis Gamepad.
Alien Carnage was distributed on 2x 3.5" 1.44MB HD diskettes and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via Alien Carnage Installation and PKSFX Fast Self-extract Utility v2.04g of 1989-93 by PKWARE Inc. The install size for v1.0 is 6.3 megs and consists of 35 files.
Alien Carnage Features
- 4x Episodes / Missions
- 20x levels
- 3x difficulty levels: Easy, Normal & Hard
- Status bar with Intercom/Radar
- 6x weapons: Flame thrower, Photon cannon, Missiles, Grenades, Micro-nukes & Omegas
- 5x collectable bonuses: Present, Money bag, Time, 1-up, TNT
- Collect coins for credits to buy weapons
- Digitized music & sound effects
- 1x layer of parallax
- Image-masking (move behind waterfall etc.)
- Animated intro & outro
Alien Carnage Actions
- Run left/right
- Thrust via Jetpack
- Crouch
- Shoot
- Enter elevator
- Activate switch
- Look up/down
List of Alien Carnage Episodes
- Episode 1: Sewers
- Episode 2: Factory
- Episode 3: Office Block
- Episode 4: Alien Ship
Halloween Harry IBM PC MS-DOS 1993
Apogee Software released Halloween Harry for IBM PC MS-DOS 3.3 in October of 1993. Halloween Harry was renamed to Alien Carnage in 1994. Halloween Harry is as per Alien Carnage but for its name, titlescreen and episode-ordering.
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