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| Full title | Alien |
| Year of release | 1984 |
| Publisher | Mind Games (UK) |
| Re-released by | Bug-Byte Software Ltd (UK) Mind Games Espana S.A. (Spain) |
| Author(s) | Concept Software Ltd (John Heap, Paul Clansey) |
| Tie-in licence | 20th Century Fox (USA) (movie: Alien) |
| Machine type | ZX Spectrum 48K |
| Number of players | 1 |
| Controls | Kempston, Interface 2, Cursor, Redefineable keys |
| Type | Tactical Combat |
| Message language | English |
| Original publication | Commercial |
| Original price | £8.99 2495 ptas. |
| Budget price | £2.99 |
| Availability | Available as both Perfect TZX and non-TZX |
| Protection scheme | None |
| Additional info | Features Icon/Menu Driven Control Also listed on Wikipedia, Freebase and Lost in Translation |
| Other systems | This title was also advertised for and/or published on the Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 |
| Score |
8.11 (46 votes) 
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| Filename | Size | Type | Origin | Code | Barcode | D.L. | Year | ||
|  | Alien.tzx.zip | 15,877 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Original release | 1984 | |||
|  | Alien_3.tap.zip | 15,768 | ((non-TZX) TAP tape image) | 1984 | ||||
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| | Alien(Bug-ByteSoftwareLtd).tzx.zip | 15,801 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Re-release | BBS076 | 5013248530067 | 1986 |
| Filename | Size | Type | |
 | Alien.gif | 1,819 | (Loading screen) |
| Alien.scr | 6,912 | (Loading screen dump) |
| Alien.gif | 4,164 | (In-game screen) | |
 | Alien.txt | 18,446 | (English instructions) |
| Alien.zip | 1,333,567 | (Scanned English instructions) |
| Alien(MindGamesEspanaS.A.).pdf | 163,975 | (Spanish instructions) |
| Alien.jpg | 40,750 | (Game map) |
| Alien_2.png | 30,361 | (Game map) |
| Alien_Back.jpg | 500,591 | (Cassette inlay) | |
| Alien_Front.jpg | 292,241 | (Cassette inlay) | |
| Alien(Bug-ByteSoftwareLtd).jpg | 102,180 | (Re-release cassette inlay) | |
| Alien(MindGamesEspanaS.A.).jpg | 129,006 | (Re-release cassette inlay) | |
| Alien.jpg | 129,559 | (Advertisement) | |
| Alien(Bug-ByteSoftwareLtd).jpg | 191,595 | (Advertisement) |
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| Magazine | Issue | Type | ||
| Popular Computing Weekly | 10.84 | page 105 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 11.84 | page 309 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 12.84 | page 306 | (News/Note - Helping hotline) | [full page] |
| Crash | 2.85 | page 56 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Games Computing | 2.85 | page 57 | (Feature - Games of the Films) | |
| Crash | 4.85 | page 124 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Crash | 4.85 | page 125 | (Map) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 4.85 | page 5 | (Letter) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 4.85 | page 24 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Your Spectrum | 4.85 | page 49 | (Review) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 8.85 | page 38 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Popular Computing Weekly | 11.86 | page 276 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 1.87 | page 50 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 1.87 | page 7 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 9.92 | page 29 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Magazine | Issue | Type | ||
| Home Computing Weekly | 9.84 | page 322 | (Full-page ad - no product title in advert) | [full page] |
| Popular Computing Weekly | 9.84 | page 433 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 10.84 | page 127 | (Full-page ad - no product title in advert) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 11.84 | page 190 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 11.84 | page 408 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 11.84 | page 444 | (CompoEntry) | [full page] |
| Popular Computing Weekly | 11.84 | page 432 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Your Computer | 11.84 | page 54 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 12.84 | page 124 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Games Computing | 12.84 | page 86 | (Full-page ad) | |
| Home Computing Weekly | 12.84 | page 108 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 12.84 | page 359 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 12.84 | page 28 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| ZX Collection | 12.84 | page 148 | (Full-page ad) | |
| ZX Computing | 12.84 | page 38 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Games Computing | 1.85 | page 86 | (Full-page ad) | |
| Home Computing Weekly | 1.85 | page 241 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 1.85 | page 341 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 1.85 | page 507 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Personal Computer Games | 1.85 | page 161 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Sinclair Programs | 1.85 | page 22 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| TV Gamer | 1.85 | page 6 | (Advert) | |
| Crash | 2.85 | page 25 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 2.85 | page 63 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 2.85 | page 105 | (CompoResult) | [full page] |
| Personal Computer Games | 2.85 | page 53 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Sinclair Programs | 2.85 | page 68 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 2.85 | page 131 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Crash | 3.85 | page 49 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 3.85 | page 78 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 3.85 | page 153 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 3.85 | page 209 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Sinclair Programs | 3.85 | page 59 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 3.85 | page 60 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Computer Gamer | 4.85 | page 13 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Sinclair Programs | 4.85 | page 4 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 4.85 | page 131 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Computer Gamer | 5.85 | page 12 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 6.85 | page 26 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Computer Gamer | 11.86 | page 54 | (Full-page ad - Bug-Byte advert) | [full page] |
| Computer Gamer | 12.86 | page 24 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
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