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Xenophobe
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Game only: the cartridge in a protective holder, no box or manual. The photos are of this exact cartridge — look them over closely for its 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
Somewhere aboard a crippled space station, something with far too many teeth is creeping out of an egg pod, and the countdown on the wall says you have very little time to deal with it. That is the whole pitch of Xenophobe, and it is a good one. Bally Midway built the 1987 arcade original as a three-player bug hunt with an unmistakable Alien-movie flavor, and Sunsoft brought it home to the NES in 1988 with the core idea intact: sweep each station, wipe out the infestation before the clock runs down, and move on to the next one.
The fun is in the pressure. Stations stretch across several floors connected by elevators and holes, so every mission turns into frantic route planning as you chase the last few stragglers hiding a level above or below you. Better weapons and helpful items are scattered around the decks, and grabbing a stronger gun at the right moment can turn a losing fight into a clean sweep. In the arcade, the aliens grow through a nasty life cycle, from pods to clinging critters to rolling and leaping horrors, and that feeling of a problem getting worse the longer you hesitate is exactly what the timer is there to enforce.
The NES version also lets two players share the station on a split screen, which made it an unusual cartridge in 1988: a sci-fi creature shooter you could tackle side by side with a friend on the couch. It arrived as Sunsoft was hitting its NES stride, and it carries that studio's knack for squeezing an ambitious idea onto the hardware.
The arcade game also reached Atari's consoles and the Lynx, but for many console players this NES cartridge is the version they remember. If you love the late-80s wave of games that borrowed from Ridley Scott and James Cameron, or you collect the stranger corners of the NES arcade-port library, Xenophobe is a tense, offbeat cartridge that still feels like nothing else on the shelf.
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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