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エイリアンクラッシュ
©1988 Naxat Soft
Release : 1988-9-14 (¥5200)
HuCard (2 Mbits) NX63001
Pinball game
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Released in America as
ALIEN CRUSH
( TGX020005 )
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Alien Crush can be described in numerous ways, but the easiest would
be to define it as a pinball game... with Alien flavor.
Naxat Soft has combined two concepts that never connected
before, and probably never will again.
Alien Crush features all the usual elements and items found
in traditional pinball games
(bumpers, Holes, kickers, flippers, etc...)
but mixed with a new, weird and detailed Alien design, including
eyeless mouths, squidard tentacles and viscous brains. The playfield is composed of two
connected vertical screens with a pair of bumpers at the
bottom of each one of them.
The game also counts numerous bonus stages that can be accessed
by sending the ball through hidden passageways on the playfield.
They are usually small rooms with various groups of
aliens or large bosses that need to be annihilated for points.
Alien Crush features a blazing metal soundtrack
and the overall ambiance of the game
adds a surprisingly new twist to the Pinball genre.
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Teaser text from the American version:
Imagine a LIVING pinball machine... with aliens and outlandish worlds to throw at you.
And turbo-charged, speed-of-light pinball action. You control the flippers and ball speed
to defeat the Slime, the Tentacloid and Scorpion. Go for the eyes! This is full-tilt,
out-of-this-world action! Surrealistic graphics plus true-to-life, earsplitting
arcade pinball sound.
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I have always found "virtual" pinball machines a bit... I mean...
some of them try hard to mimic pinball machines but the feel is just
different, and the whole idea just doesn't really make much sense to me.
However, several Japanese companies tried to take this concept a lot further
and managed to bring elements that would have been impossible to
feature on real pinball machines. And this, I think, is the winning formula and
this is what makes Alien crush such an entertaining and fun pinball game.
The only shame is the lack of vertical scrolling, I wished the main playfield could
scroll up and down (as it does in Devil Crash, sequel
of Alien Crush). Despite this problem, Alien Crush is a fun and addictive game, but my
advice would be to purchase Devil Crash instead.
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