ALIEN 3 - by Acclaim Entertainment
(c) Virgin Software
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The Future is now ...
The space ship SULACO, which is carrying the cryotubes that
Ripley, Newt and Hicks have been in a state of hyper sleep
within, is being propelled through space when a malfunction
occurs.

In response to this malfunction, SULACO's 'brain' ejects the EEV
containing the cryotubes. We later find out that not only has the
synthetic human, bishop been aboard as well, but an unborn ALIEN
has also managed to infest itself within the body of Ripley.

As the SULACO plummets helpless through space, the EEV is hurled
out of its hold and crashed on an isolated section of the mining
planet and 'penal colony', FIORINA 161.

Upon impact, the EEV is seriously damaged, Newt and Hicks are
dead. Bishop,the android is reduced to negative capability, while
Ripley is left unconscious but alive.

FIORINA 161 is inhabited by hard-core individuals, convicts
serving time in this maximum security facility. These outcasts
were left on the planet as a maintenance crew, unable to function
in civilisation. They are joined by a medical officer, Clemens,
and two supervisors.

Ripley, suspecting that aliens have followed her, searches the
proof. She knows that 'The Company', considers the Aliens to be
an important species and has ordered them not to be harmed.
'The Company' has millions of dollars invested in the 'Alien
Retrival Project'which would bring this strain of hideous killing
machines back to earth and used as 'weapons'.

Ripley now takes on her most important assignment. She must
rescue the Alien's captives, then find and destroy them.

THAT BUMP ... is your heart ... as you get to confront the
ALIENS!
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Getting started:
Option screen: check it after pressing fire on the intro screen.

Controls:
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Use a joystick in port two like on all the other platform games
as well ...

SPACE - Toggles weapon
P - Pause Game

RADAR:
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Pick up batteries to activate the Radar Screen, situated in the
bottom right corner of the screen.

The Stages:
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There are several stages divided into different missions ...
So when the game writes one of the following you are going to
expect something special.

MISSION: Get all the prisoners and free them, destroying all
aliens along the way.
RESCUE (MAYHEM): Concentrate on the prisoners and remember time
is against you.
EXTERMINATE: Seek and Destroy ! You cannot exit these stages
until all aliens are dead.
GUARDIAN: Just a bigger one to kill ...

You must search everywhere, jump through walls and crawl through
tunnels. Destroy every hidden Alien Pod. The survival of even one
Alien could mean that Earth is in danger. Without you, the Aliens
will take over. Remember, they bile acid - they hunger for
humans - they destroy their host! Dramatic - ain't it ?

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