Aliens

is a video game that was manufactured for MSX computers in 1987. The game is directly based on the popular 1986 film of the same name. Aliens was developed and published by Square, and is the game company's first and only platformer. The game was only released in Japan. The game features a single-player mode where the player takes on the role of Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley, the heroine of the Alien films, in her desperate attempt to escape the fictional moon LV-426 (also known as Acheron), which is infested with a colony of Xenomorph, lethal alien creatures designed to kill. Aliens is a traditional sidescrolling platformer, where the game's character jumps from platform to platform while combating foes and collecting power-ups, or...