Aliens (1982 Video Game)
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Gameplay

The game runs in text mode; the aliens are made of letters and punctuation marks. Each level was given a name, displayed on top of the screen, such as "Blood Bath" and "We Come in Peace."


References

CP/M games Fixed shooters Space Invaders clones Video games developed in the United States Video games with textual graphics Single-player video games {{fixed-shooter-videogame-stub