Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure
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Jean-Martial Lefranc
Steve Hutchins
Olivier Train
Cyrille Thomas
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| Developer(s) | Cryo Interactive |
| Publisher(s) | Mindscape |
| Producer(s) | David Locke Jean-Martial Lefranc Steve Hutchins |
| Designer(s) | Olivier Venet Olivier Train Cyrille Thomas |
| Programmer(s) | Nicolas Choukroun |
| Artist(s) | Bernard Bittler |
| Platform(s) | MS-DOS |
| Release | May 25, 1995 |
| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure is a 1995 adventure game developed by Cryo Interactive Entertainment and published by Mindscape for MS-DOS. It is loosely based on the Aliens comic book series with many references to the graphic novel Labyrinth.
Players take on the role of Lt. Col. Henry Hericksen, an ex-Colonial Marine aboard the USS Sheridan who is now the commander of a three-man terraforming team tasked with investigating a distress call originating from a remote outpost known as B54C. Players must search through a mining complex for clues.
The main protagonist, Lt. Col. Henricksen, is a nod to famed sci-fi actor Lance Henriksen, who played the android Bishop in Aliens and Alien³, and Charles Bishop Weyland in Alien vs. Predator. Towards the end of the game, players encounter a "Space Jockey" like huge dead creature found in the spaceship in the first Alien movie.
Development and release
In 1994, Cryo Interactive were instructed to create an adventure game based on the Aliens comic book series being published by Dark Horse Comics at the time, with Mindscape acting as the game's publisher.
The U.S. version of the game was completed in October 1994 and released to manufacturing, of which an initial 120,000 units were produced.[relevant?] In December 1994 Fox disputed that Dark Horse possessed adequate contractual rights to allow sub-licensing of the property to Cryo and Mindscape for a videogame. This caused a delay in the game's release, with Fox eventually relenting and allowing Mindscape to sell only the existing stock, disallowing any further manufacturing or marketing.[citation needed]
