Alien Syndrome + Alien Storm Review/Retrospective - Kim Justice
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Two classic Sega arcade games connected by one word. This video will review Alien Syndrome and Alien Storm - both the original arcade versions, all the ports, and whatever modern versions are floating around. Enjoy!
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I hope you know and that people tell you you're one of (if not the) best representation of informative, thoughtful, well researched and entertaining through quality video gaming videos on UA-cam. It's especially relevant to have someone with an European perspective, providing the rest of the world with insights on the Amigas and Spectrums that they probably know little about.
I've long watched your videos (ever since the Kimble Justice days, actually), but I didn't possess an YT account. Now that I do, thank you so much for all the videos you uploaded and allowed us to enjoy throughout the years!
Alien Storm was one of my faves on the Genesis when I was a kid, I loved it. Still do.
Great video as usual, Kim!
I distinctly remember continually asking my parents to buy me Alien Syndrome on Amiga for ages after it was advertised in pretty much every mag at the time. I never got it :(. 30 years later though, I’m happy to say I own it on original floppies! It’s not the greatest game, but whenever I look at the box, nostalgia flows through my otherwise cold, calloused heart
There's a much better homebrew port of AlienStorm for the Amiga, much closer to the arcade, but they pretended it was playing through a game gear fro some bizarre reason.
Larry Bundy Jr
Hello you!
I played Alien Syndrome in the arcades in ancient times I seem to remember, I considered it to be a poor man's Gauntlet set in space at the time.
DO A VIDEO ON IT LARRY!!! Also,...please check out my arcade video! CAUSE YOUR ROCK!!!
Hey Larry. Amiga is dead. Live with it.
You're probably the only man that could play "The Town With No Name" and say, "It's not that bad".
instablaster...
Ah, Alien Syndrome, my favorite arcade game of all time.
I can't possibly imagine why the hell they never ported it to the Genesis, it basically would have been arcade perfect.
Some trivia, Alien Storm was inspired by The 1982 The Thing, and even includes sound effects taken directly from that film.
I absolutely adore Alien Storm, it was one of my favourites back in the day. I've lost count how many times I've played it, not always to completion mind you... but it's still incredibly good fun.
Brilliant work as usual, Kim!
I have no experience with alien syndrome but I have a ton of experience playing the arcade version of alien storm. This was an arcade game that was lucky enough to be at our local arcade back in the day. It was a ton of fun to play, and I'll always consider it to be one of those timeless arcade classics.
No Alien Soldier? ;P awesome video, these games are seriously underrated gems.
I was obsessed with alien syndrome on nes as a kid. Felt like playing inside the movie Alien. I used to make my sister play with me even though she didn't like it cause it's the only way I could beat the last couple bosses. Awesome video!
I was only thinking about Alien Syndrome last week as I saw I found a Spectrum version at one of my local indy game shops last week. So thanks for this timely video
I had great memories and love for Alien Syndrome in the arcades. That was shattered when I bought it on the Amstrad. The guy fires when he’s killed? How!? Damn ACE!!! The C64 version is pretty damn good except for that push scrolling
in the old days an existing title coded from scratch to run on a new system was not called a port.
The term port was reserved for games running on systems it was not originally coded for but made use of the original assets so you got a near identical copy to the original, whether the port ran as good as its original is well... a different story.
At some stage people started using it wrong and so port began to mean any version of a game not on the system it was first made for, whether it was coded from scratch or not.
Craig Brainimpact So was there a term for the game if it was recorded from scratch and not using the original assets?
It was still being used correctly 10-15 years ago, then when old games started getting remade for smartphones It started getting used wrong by all these new tech sites that sprung up around the same time as touchscreen phones took off, developers used to go out of their way to make it known if it was no port and they had coded it from scratch, but then online PR people took over that had no clue so it just stopped getting corrected.
It's weird that genital-themed monsters were the norm in that era, like in Contra and R-type, when video games were still seen as kids stuff.
Well...giving birth is a kind of part body celebration, part body horror...one expressed well in Giger's works. And, as a whole, the "think-of-the-children" parents out there are more willing to tolerate sexual/bodily themes in the context of the life cycle and/or marriage (you'd be surprised at the number of sex-toy/lingerie shop ads there are in Utah...but they are all ads aimed at married couples). So...given the, admittedly horrifying, "birth" themes with Alien in the chest-bursters, and the normalization of said imagery with the ubiquity of the first 2 Alien movies as "instant classics", I don't think most parents noticed...or just assumed that little kids wouldn't get it anyway. I've been around a lot of these people throughout much of my life, and they seem to care a lot more about words than imagery...especially imagery that could be interpreted in multiple ways.
I never played this as a kid in the 80s but after watching your video I feel nostalgic anyway! Must be the Kim magic touch. Great work as always!
Oh man Alien Storm on the Mega Drive was one of my favourite video games growing up. It used to totally kick my arse at times but I did manage to beat it a few times. So either I had the Japanese version (and didn’t know) or I was just pants at it 😆
On a side note. Please do a Xmas special live stream this year. Very enjoyable to watch kim
loved both these games as a kid in the arcades, they hold up great even today! always wished they did a port of Alien Syndrome on Genesis/Megadrive
I'll never understand why Alien Syndrome (or the original Shinobi for that matter) was ever ported to the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive. At the very least, it could've gotten a sequel a'la Revenge of Shinobi.
I played through the Amiga version of Alien Syndrome with a friend back in the late 80's. A fantastic coop game for its time.
alien syndrome is one of my all time favorite nes games
please bring back the old ending music, i miss it
Glad there a new vid up,I've exhausted all the rest this past week!
The Mega Drive version I have of Alien Storm is hard as shit!
Hell yes!!!! Ya beat me to it but still, this is 100% my sort of video
AlienStorm The Complete History Confirmed!!! :D
I loved Alien Storm. I remember to have seen Golden Axe in the rare Arcades i had around where i lived. Got Golden Axe for the Genesis/Mega Drive ... and when i seen Alien Storm i got it right away. Testers in magazines gave it 74% ... but for me it was as good as Golden Axe ... it's just different, more variety. Yes only one real Boss the last one being a Shooting Gallery ... but i liked that the game is so varied in what you do. Each Alien type you had to fight differently.
Still love it. It's sad that they (Sega) not make any more Golden Axe, Streets of Rage(Bare Knuckle), Alien Storm, or Shinobi games.
And yeah i know Streets of Rage 4 came out not long ago ... but somehow i feel like there is something missing in there. Streets of Rage 4 feels like they ignored Streets of Rage 3, no Running or Rolling ... or that Bar that let you use the Special without HP loss once a certain time. Also ... it's quite short too.
You are great Kim
THANK YOU! Alien Syndrome is one of the best experiences I had in 1986!
A great review of a series I never played, but was sometime a friend used to play a lot. I usually enjoy run and gun shooters, but I guess the time limit is stupid, and more than Alien Breed or those similar maze games like Chaos Engine.
I love what you do, if you are seeing this, I would love to see another history of a video game publisher/developer. Maybe one of the Big names like Konami, or one of the hilariously horrible collapses like Silicon Knight.
I played the hell out of Alien Storm here in the states when it came out in the arcade near my home. Funny enough, even though I own a Sega Genesis, as it's called here, I never played the ported version. Alien Syndrome I played quite a lot on the Sega Master System I had. Loads of fun from both games. Either would easily make for an epic movie if done right.
Well, such a movie already exists. It's called Alien, duh.
No, not really the same thing. Yes, these games were inspired by Aliens, much more so than Alien, but they're different enough from Aliens to where you could do a movie where numerous groups of Aliens have taken over the planet, and now there's a war going on where the humans are fighting back. Cause that's more what Alien Syndrome and Alien Storm are like. You get a wide array of Aliens which you fight back against in both games, where Aliens is about one species.
Loved Syndrome
I remember getting Alien Syndrome with my Game Gear along with Sonic 2 for either Christmas 1994 or 1995. I played it tonnes but don't think I ever got past the first stage!
Have Alien Storm on Gensis collection. My literal only gripe is that version misses out on the awesome opening cutscene of the trio going from their fast food truck day job to getting into Alien Busting business. Otherwise, a very fun time.
What really pissed me off about Alien Storm MD was that in 2P Arcade mode, you share continues. So if your partner dies, continues for both go down by one. You can be in a situation where 2P fucks you up and yet you get game over before them, while they play a little bit longer.
two very underrated games in my honest opinion. the alien storm conversion on the genesis was a bang up job all things considering....i thought u undersold the alien syndrome ages update...a great upgrade to the original in my book!
Nobody steals our drinks cabinets...and lives!
I love alian storm. Got good memorys of playing it on meagadrive with my bro when we were kids and I still play it often today.
Props for the obscure Hart to Hart reference.
What a pitty we didn't get a Sega Genesis port for Alien Syndrome!
Another great video from you!
I would love to see you do a retrospective of the Alien Breed games on the Amiga.
Oh gosh, I now know which game (Alien Storm) inspired Dragonforce's Heart Demolition!
Alien syndrome was so glitchy when I had this for my Sega
Alien Storm is quite cool and weird. It's on the Megadrive Collection on the PS4
You can unlock the Arcade version in the Sonic Genesis collection on the PS3 and Xbox 360.
My mama and I beat that game on nintendo when was a baby.
ALL home computer versions use a push scroll not just the C64, it is what makes the Amiga version's identical graphics of the ST a shit sprinkle on a shit cake that is non centrally held character while you scroll the screen as the arcade does. The only version worth playing that isn't via MAME is the x68000 because it is the only faithful version that keeps that control method for when the screen scrolls.
Yay, you got around to Alien Syndrome. For some reason it isn't remembered as the great game that it is. It was the first game that I remember that had boss battles, and as such you almost needed a second player for those parts. I used to camp the machine at the arcade, asking people random people who approached the game to play coop.
I must be really bad at MD Alien Storm or I've been playing the Japanese version. If I manage to beat it then I'm usually down to my last credit.
Ever thought about doing a video on Kid Chameleon? I love that game. It's like the Genesis own competent Mario clone.
Thank God, I was almost going to call it a night.
You're incredible Justice, excellent choice
Used to love this on Amiga...
a very good overview of two games that i have a soft spot for~ however, i am curious about the bit about the number of credits for the mega drive port of alien storm- which version did you play that has so many? i've only ever known the game to give 3 credits shared between players regardless of region, and while there is an option to increase that amount, it's only adjustable via a code (tcrf.net/Alien_Storm_(Genesis) )
incidentally, the steam and wii virtual console versions of alien storm make a tiny change- the red cross on the health kit was changed to an 'H' instead
Alien Syndrome took all my allowance money.
and in the end, Crack Down blasted Alien Syndrome left right and centre. I tried the Game Gear version. Better butstill not enough in comparison to Rambo.
Did I understand correctly? The NES(!!!) port? A SEGA(!!!!) game got ported to a NINTENDO(!!!!) system??? Now HOW the hell was that possible back when SEGA was still in the hardware business? Imagine, for a moment, Gears of War on the Playstation. Odd, right? I really find that quite fascinating - how this port of Alien Syndrome was possible might even be a more interesting story than the game itself.
It's not the only Sega game on the Nes. There are also ports of Fantasy Zone, After Burner, Shinobi, Space Harrier and Altered Beast on the Nes/Famicom. Tengen released some of 'em in the west.
Why hasn't SEGA brought these two arcade games to modern consoles? It's not like they have to be recoded due to licensed assets & stuff (like Shinobi, Altered Beast or Golden Axe). Maybe a 3 or 5 game arcade pack, w/Alien Syndrome, Alien Storm, Quartet, Space Harrier & Fantasy Zone. Perhaps they could even include the console versions as hidden unlockable extras. Come on, SEGA! Stop slacking off!
The arcade version was hard dude.
Alien Storm too easy??? goddamn I think it is really hard even on Mega Drive.
Still waiting for you to do either Castlevania series or how about Renagade series on the speccy? would love to hear your opinions on Renegade 3....load of crap!
I have diagnosed myself with Alien syndrome.
Finish Alien Syndrome on PS2 and it unlocks retro mode
If alien syndrome, what’s the first game in the alien series. Then I guess, alien storm, was the sequel to it. Don’t you think? Kimball justice.
what is that film a 10:19 called?
I remember a semi rip off on the Amstrad called Die alien slime. It ran a lot better than this port did thats for sure.
does anyone know how to download this game on pc??????
Syndrome was the original Cuphead (boss wise).
This was bollox had on the C64 but I loved it
Is Alien Storm Alien Syndrome 2?
I used to enjoy the C64 version of Alien Syndrome but nowadays I think it's crap. It's not just the strange scrolling thing but also the enemies AI (or lack of it) that is a lot nastier than it should be.
Awww I always thought I was good at Alien Storm on the Mega Drive...then you go and piss on my 25 year parade by saying it's because it's easy!
Adam Weishaupt
Same here! Slightly off topic but nice to see the boro going well after last seasons debacle!
:) Thanks mate. Yeah it's good to see us scoring goals again. Last season was torturous to sit through!
Who only had Alien Storm because they somehow got Mega Games 3?
Nice video, but who the fuck is this "Jillius"? 😝
inphanta Gilius the Dwarf from Golden Axe
The Alien franchise is probably the most ripped off thing in all of gaming. If it's not Star Wars anyway.
0:40 "a lot more simpler"???
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