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Summary

Aliens (the arcade shooter) drops you and a buddy into the abandoned LV‑426 settlement, where you control the film’s female marines and blast through wave after wave of Xenomorphs. The core of the game is a horizontal side‑scroller, but it flips perspective at times – you’ll turn around to fire into the screen, ride lifts, or even drive forward as the action pushes into the depth of the corridor. Besides the starter smart gun, you can pick up flamethrowers, missile launchers, grenades and even a Caterpillar P‑5000 for extra firepower. Health is tracked by a few points, and losing them all costs a life; each level ends with a boss, the final showdown being the Alien Queen in a powered exoskeleton loader. Two‑player co‑op lets you team up as Ripley or Hicks, sharing the frantic, graphically gritty experience that made the cabinet a hit in arcades worldwide.

Storyline

In the arcade shooter Aliens, the story follows the Weyland‑Yutani Corporation’s lost contact with its mining outpost Hadley’s Hope on LV‑426 Acheron. Colonial Marines from the USS Sulaco are dispatched to investigate, only to discover the colony overrun by a parasitic alien life‑form that has either exterminated the crew or turned them into hosts.
Players assume the role of Ellen Ripley or Corporal Hicks, battling waves of Xenomorphs as they try to survive. The climax pits them against the Alien Queen, and the game offers two endings: the classic air‑lock escape from the film, or a prolonged fight that wears the Queen down until she bursts apart.

Edited by Maya Carter