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Xenophobe
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Item Condition
Complete in box: the cartridge, the manual and the box, all original; anything beyond that is included only if you can see it in the photos. The manual shows only minor signs of wear, and the box shows moderate shelf wear but is intact. Look over the photos for condition, packaging and details. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
It starts with a harmless-looking pod. Leave it alone and it hatches, and what crawls out grows into something worse, from Critters to Rollerbabies to Snotterpillars. That creeping, escalating dread is the core of Xenophobe: you are dropped into an infested installation with a clock running, and the longer you hesitate, the uglier the infestation gets.
Bally Midway released the original in arcades in 1987, and Sunsoft brought it home to the NES in North America in 1988. The goal in each level is to wipe out the aliens before time runs out, and the levels stack across several floors, so you ride elevators and drop through holes to chase down every last one. Better guns and useful items turn up along the way, and grabbing them before a big fight makes all the difference. The arcade cabinet was built around a split-screen view, and the NES version keeps a split-screen layout, so the game still plays like a cramped, frantic bug hunt down shadowy corridors.
Sunsoft's NES games were known for their sound, and Naohisa Morota's music gives the alien sweeps a tense, pulsing backdrop. It is not a polished blockbuster, but there is real fun in its B-movie premise and in the panic of hearing a hatchling skitter toward you while you are still fumbling for a better weapon.
Anyone who grew up on Aliens and late-night creature features will recognize the mood instantly. Xenophobe is late-1980s sci-fi on a cartridge, part bug hunt and part race against the clock, and a reminder of how strange and adventurous the arcade conversions of the NES era could be.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1988
- Publisher
- SUNSOFT
- Developer
- Bally Midway
- Players
- Single player, Split screen
About the game
The NES port of Xenophobe, a 1987 arcade game. The goal of each level is to defeat all the aliens before time runs out. Levels may contain more than one floor, and players use elevators or holes to move between floors to defeat all of the aliens. Players can also pick up more powerful weapons and other items to help in their eradication of the aliens.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayXenophobe on NES
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