Alien 3: The Gun Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]

[@BunnychanFarabee]

Love how the last boss is Bishop but since they probably couldn't secure Lance Henrikson's likeness, it's just "an unidentified man."

[@brandonroeder2461]

Bishops likeness is based off a Yutani Weiland corporate executive that appears in the third movie.

[@Mercuriussnake]

Kind of impressed, I didn’t expect this game to be so gory. Limbs blown off,writhing limbless bodies on the ground etc. It’s a nice touch.

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

I think there's even some swearing.

[@VSSEDragon3]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays this is one of best arcade games ever so far

[@malhaomalhoa7486]

I mean yeah it's gory but you're still fighting aliens with green blood, not that much worse than what you see in the classic Metroid games.

[@WanderlustZero]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays 18:09 sounds like when Morse says 'Fuck!' after the Superintendent gets snatched away :D

[@GingerSpy2]

Watched people played this game from the entrance of the arcade back in 93, gave me nightmare about aliens for weeks.

[@Jiterdomer]

Not to mention, that jumpscare screen if you don't continue the game.

[@VSSEDragon3]

Our childhood memories

[@tynao2029]

When this cabinet first started showing up in 1993, it was a sight to behold. The new era of gory, loud, light gun games was here

[@CopiousDoinksLLC]

It's funny because I had exactly the opposite experience - this game was cathartic for me, it really put my fears of Xenomorphs to rest because it gave me a chance to annihilate a bunch of them in first person perspective. I swear I wasn't scared of anything Aliens related after this game because I was like: "Dude, all I need is a pulse rifle and those guys are royally fucked."

[@Vikashar]

Wuss

[@JN-xr2uq]

Has anyone noticed that the sound effect for the facehuggers being shot is the same one used during the "blood test" scene in John Carpenter's "The Thing?"

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

Good catch - definitely sounds like the same. Also doesn't surprise me - I think Sega had to get "creative" in acquiring samples to use in the game...sucks the gun doesn't sound like the pulse rifle.

[@foofoo3344]

Do you mean the scene where the alien pops right outta the petri dish when MacReady dipped a hot wire into it?

[@deg6788]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays in the golden axe there are many deathsamples extracted from movies like Conan the barbarian and Rambo and cm Commando

[@christianjonker8181]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays they probably did but then realized how obnoxious the pulse rifle sound is so they toned it down.

[@VSSEDragon3]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays alien 👽🤖 hunting rocks

[@mk-ultraviolence1760]

Developer 1: Okay we have to come up with bosses for Aliens 3 the Arcade what should they be? Developer 2: Well people want to fight xenomorphs so lets just throw in palate swaps of the same alien that the player just shot down by the hundreds. Developer 1: Won't people get bored of that? Developer 2: We could throw in a face hugger? Developer 1: Just a Face Hugger? Developer 2: No its a SUPER face hugger. Developer 1: Yeah I guess. So who is going to be the final boss and don't tell me that its an alien palate swap. Developer 2: A dude in shades I guess?

[@WanderlustZero]

'What about combat robots and a huge robot tank?' 'Look Jeff I know you're pissed you got fired from the T2 arcade game project but... oh what the hell, why not'

[@alsat8931]

State of the badass art: all prisoners saved, zero damage taken on 99% of the run ✌ Surgical with the flamethrower on Stage 2

[@FrankNFurter1000]

I feel like this is what Alien 3 would have been like if James Cameron had been in charge.

[@proto-guest4511]

Everyone back in the 80s and 90s had so much fun! As a 2004 born guy, I'm kinda jealous.

[@_Muzolf]

No reason not to have fun with these now. A lot of arcade games are playable online today with just a browser.

[@Wolf10media]

2004? You still had some good Arcade stuff back then. Don't sell it short my friend.

[@worldofthought8352]

I remember watching someone complete this and were miffed about the ending, I suppose from their perspective 40 minutes of gameplay only to be treated to a sundance kid ending wasn't something they be expecting.

[@scottyunitedboy2925]

I felt the same way when I first saw someone else complete this- as the producers had already taken liberties with the storyline so why not have the player face off against an alien queen (for example)?

[@clarenceboddicker1162]

couldn’t spoil the ending

[@KimPossibleShockwave]

The sprites for this game look amazing: you know, they'd be brilliant if they were used in an Alien: Trilogy rebuild on a Doom source port.

[@parimabartender]

Check out alien quake you'd love it

[@KimPossibleShockwave]

@@parimabartender Thanks!

[@houstonhelicoptertours1006]

These are missing a lot of animations and rotations needed for that. Just use the ones that came with Alien: Trilogy; they are easy to extract

[@KimPossibleShockwave]

@@houstonhelicoptertours1006 They're also of surprisingly low quality compared to the ones in The Gun, but you are correct about the frames being missing. :( Maybe it'd just be easier to create low poly models (such as those seen in AvP2 and PH) and just create renders of those for a sprite-based enemy, or something like that...

[@aidanmcgrath911]

This is actually better than the film! 🤔

[@BirdRaiserE]

I think I saw this game ONCE in an arcade and never again. It's always stuck with me because I beat the two other Aliens arcade games that I played

[@caderainier4052]

I love how similar the "data screen on" visual is to House of the Dead's boss intros. With both made by Sega wouldnt be surprised if this inspired HOTD!

[@absmith12]

I remember playing and completing this with my Sister at a Haven caravan park.. haha. Ahh the memories!

[@larrynintendo6838]

Oh man! I bet that ruled! Would love to play this with my brother!

[@EazyB90]

This looks legit pretty scary (in addition to being a lot of fun). The speed and intensity, the excellent sprites (the Facehuggers in particular are so damn creepy looking), the fact that you're constantly under attack by some of the most frightening creature designs ever... not to mention that getting a Game Over earns you what's basically a proto-screamer. Also it's kind of funny that the final boss in this Alien game is some Wey-Yu dude in a trenchcoat. Reminds me of how in the Jurassic Park Sega CD game, your final challenge wasn't Velociraptors or the T.rex... it was some BioSyn dudes with guns lmao.

[@Jackfromshack]

I swear this game looks better for me than most of AAA crap today. It's not about graohics, but about art design I guess. It just look more fun.

[@daktaklakpak5059]

Despite the graphical glitches in the game, like shot off limbs clipping through walls etc. The game looks amazing. The artstyle reminds you of everything you saw in the movies, and more. Basically true to the Lore. Even if everything is literally just a 2D Sprite... The only downside is the sound. But the Soundchip probably couldn't deliver more. Even if they had all the iconic movie sounds implemented. Which they didn't, sadly.

[@loungejay8555]

Well said. I try to explain this to my kids. They have PS4 and Wii U's and the graphical capabilities of these systems is all they've known. So when I show them certain Neo Geo games on KZbin they laugh at how primitive it is to them. I try and put it across to them that art design and style goes a long way, but they won't have it.

[@weemadangus1834]

@@loungejay8555 They think SNK games are primitive! Tell them go consume more !

[@goonerOZZ]

That's nostalgia goggles talking... Making this kind of games today, even with the graphical standard of today, people will just say how lore braking the game is, like how the aliens are all charging mindlessly in a straight and narrow alley ways instead of trying to sneak up and hunt you from the shadows. So yeah, nostalgia goggles.

[@anonimonovids]

Ironically, firetesm elite feels like a somewhat versión of this in third person

[@omarerreeme7904]

I remember playing this game on the arcade and sucking really bad at it. But i didn't give a damn to spend a lot of quarters in it because this game is so engaging and fun to play. And by the way: You were SO LUCKY to make the last boss use his flamethrower only, because that asshole also has a machine gun and when he uses it, it does a shit ton of damage!

[@Jiterdomer]

The final boss only shoots the machine gun if he rolls at every corner of the area. If you see him rolling at every corner, throw a bomb at him.

[@gonzaloNMF]

Even though Alien3 was amongst the worst of the franchise, it also kept it alive enough time to open the door to a lot of merchindising. Almost any good comic, toy or game came after the movie was released.

[@CopiousDoinksLLC]

Holy shit, I never realized it before but you're absolutely right. The earliest Aliens actions figures I believe were the Kenners - they came out in 92, same year as Alien3. The only exception I can think of might be the Aliens arcade game which was released in 1990 but I don't really think that counts because it clearly was the product of Konami rather than Fox (there were C64 Aliens games but they were unlicensed).

[@skippythealien9627]

it's crazy and ridiculous how accurate this is

[@wesker723]

love that sound FX for the dying facehuggers is the sound the infected blood made in John Carpenter's "The Thing"

[@thesamuraix881]

The hardest part of this game is when the gun doesn't want to move at all

[@Jiterdomer]

Depends on the location where the game is located.

[@immortaluglyfish2724]

The way the xenos writhe around after being shot is so damn creepy.

[@Jiterdomer]

It's also very creepy as well, the game over screen and the face when Xenos lunged at you without the legs.

[@legionxxiii3570]

Super Track 1993 8930 Gulf Fwy Houston, TX 77001 Man those were the best times of my life! Houston had the best arcade room during that time. Go carts games it was a time to be alive!

[@Last666Dragonborn]

this game has awesome visuals and atmosphere

[@tyomies6168]

The name of this game is hilarious for some reason. Its like the developers were like "What would the movie Alien 3 have been if the protagonist had a gun with unlimited ammo. 🤔"

[@t-spiders1035]

I think it was to distinguish this game from the semi-platformer hostage collection game that was on all the home consoles.

[@Jiterdomer]

You're very good at this game. This game is a lot of memorization to know where the Aliens are. If you're late, you will still get hit.

[@JuanMendoza-qd5lm]

Actually if I am correct, I believe his weapons power meter does not drain very much either. Whereas it does quite often in the actual arcade. This may be a glitch and unintentional by the uploader but it would certainly give him an advantage not available at the arcade.

[@zukoulou7464]

Alien 3 is also available on Super Nintendo, Game Boy, Nes, Game Gear, Megadrive, Master System.

[@weemadangus1834]

I remember playing this at the arcade near Oxford circus.

[@svagglaorde4387]

I wasted a lot of tokens just to finish this game, good times.

[@WanderlustZero]

Yknow what, this feels like a next gen version of Space Gun. It's got the same level progression (Space ship - planet's surface, base, room with loads of hanging meat carcasses, underground base) the branching paths, weapons (Energy bullet gun, flamethrower, grenades - just missing the freeze and blade), humans that turn into aliens, a very similar atmosphere... a lot of that is because Space Gun takes clear nods from the Alien universe. Or maybe I'm just sad we never got a Space Gun 2 :(

[@danielkelly6523]

Amazing game! I adore this style of graphics. Scaling sprites are the way to go.

[@VSSEDragon3]

The backgrounds are pretty neat

[@MasterMewtwo239]

I love how it encourages burst fire and not blind shooting everything everywhere

[@KwadDamyj]

"Remember, short controlled bursts." -Corporal Hicks

[@KingHenselt]

Умели же раньше игры делать с душой , а сейчас только на графику все силы

[@toparky2470]

this was so dope back then. graphic was outstanding for that era

[@VSSEDragon3]

True

[@WanderlustZero]

RIP to the 4786 dogs who apparently lived on this planet to make all those dog aliens :(

[@biohazarduncovered]

Played and finished this with a lot of coins shoved into the machine, the recoil from the gun was great, this and Jurassic Park Arcade were good times.

[@VSSEDragon3]

Good old times

[@biohazarduncovered]

@@VSSEDragon3 Some great memories in Arcades 😁

[@VSSEDragon3]

@@biohazarduncovered hey there Biohazard ☣️ ^^, and yes, these games awesome, besides this, there's also awesome new upcoming future games like Time Crisis 6 (TBA), The House 🏡🏠 of the Dead 🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧟 6 and more

[@biohazarduncovered]

@@VSSEDragon3 sweet a new Time Crisis and House Of The Dead, I want a remake of HOD 2 as well that's my fave one.

[@VSSEDragon3]

@@biohazarduncovered that's what Sega is gonna do in 2023, House 🏡🏠 of the Dead 2 Remake, Namco will planning for Time Crisis as well, making the Remake or the new 6th installment game

[@sf3testvids]

I remember seeing this arcade machine in the odeon or icu cinema in the city close to me iirc around 1995 I think ( had to be as I remember the poster for the twelve monkeys on the wall) really was a fun game ..

[@sgt.d.1311]

I played the SHIT out of this as a kid. Absolutely loved it

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

You gotta feel the fear of the aliens... If you know what I mean...

[@VSSEDragon3]

Just from Sci-Fi horror story

[@cartwrightworm1317]

I used to search for this game at Six Flags Great America. So sad when they removed it.

[@TheTrailburner]

The irony that it's subtitled "The Gun", considering Alien3 doesn't have any guns in it at the request of Sigourney Weaver.

[@13Gangland]

Why would she request that? Better yet, why would Fox care enough to implement such a ridiculous idea?

[@TheTrailburner]

@@13Gangland Those were her three demands in exchange for agreeing to star in the 3rd film. 1st Demand: No guns 2nd Demand: Her character has to die at the end. 3rd Demand: A sex scene between Ripley and a Xenomorph. She got 2 out of those 3 demands.

[@kooe9554]

I thought it just the director is an anti-gun guy

[@fierysmile2929]

@@TheTrailburner I'm having a difficult time believing the third demand, but at the same time, I kinda can.

[@mstcrow5429]

Exceptional plot exposition.

[@VSSEDragon3]

Breaking the forth wall

[@hyperhazable]

I had to try real hard to remember when I saw this arcade game for the first time. It happened to be when my family went to the movies to see Speed 2 Cruise Control. I was standing in line and the demo screen caught my eye. To be honest I was a bit scared of it but now looking at this it looked like a great arcade game.

[@antonybullock2240]

I don't seem to remember any of this happening in Alien 3. Especially the Allen versus Terminator bit. This is. What happens when artistic license is allowed to run out of control.

[@685eric685]

I say it's still better than the movie.

[@marceloacosta1742]

Si duda los arcades de los 90s llevó el pixel art hasta el límite y perfección absoluta🗿

[@RR-rq6mj]

I remember when I was a kid I was watching this game in a distance in an arcade game because I'm scared and it got me traumatized in this lol

[@VSSEDragon3]

Good old memories

[@malhaomalhoa7486]

This is how the Alien movies would be like if Doomguy or Duke Nukem were the protagonist.

[@redmist8959]

how dynamic does the game look for its time

[@lupine9971]

The money I wasted on this game in the arcade :D

[@Renzo-cn4zw]

alien 3 the gun is one of my favorite arcade rail shooting game in sega system 32 along with gunblade ny

[@Jiterdomer]

Considering they used the same gun controller on both games, these were actually made by Sega AM3.

[@漁兒魚餌]

17:19 one man was shot down.

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

If they turn blue it means they're either a chest-burster/android - it's safe to shoot them.

[@VSSEDragon3]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays or being infected or robot 🤖 in disguise

[@neiljohndecena7636]

This game makes me feel more like a colonial marine than Aliens: Colonial Marines

[@mystyle_jm8997]

What about Aliens: Fireteam Elite, when you encounter a wave of Xenomorph Runners on a Familiar Scene in First Mission?

[@otaking3582]

I'm not sure if "Alien³: The Gun" is a stupid name for a video game or an awesome one

[@ObsoleteVodka]

It's both, it's the 90s

[@ユーティラヴ]

絶対に視界の外からは攻撃してこないエイリアンさんもはや人類のこと好きだろ。

[@mscno188]

ALIEN「血も酸性を抑えるやで」

[@luispmoraes2772]

Is this the Snyder's Cut version of Alien 3?

[@aidanmcgrath911]

It looks like a mix between the aliens Arcade and die hard trilogy! 👌 very nicely done 😊

[@VSSEDragon3]

Aliens Dark Descent game is out now

[@FunnySuitGuy]

23:32 I like how a Sega game says the word "shit". Keep in mind this is before the ERSB.

[@spiritofzen7022]

I’d love a release of this with a gun peripheral just like the golden days of old of virtua cop and the like 👍

[@noobdave]

So when is the Saturn port coming out 😅

[@marco-gg6qr]

Wish they would bring all these games to the psn store.

[@rondelllee8936]

Just down load it on to your pc (for free)and run a HDMI throught your pc/laptop to your tv like I did.It's on m.a.m.e. btw.

[@marco-gg6qr]

Thanks buddy but I don't have a PC or laptop

[@rondelllee8936]

@@marco-gg6qr damn bro just trying to help buddy 😂

[@proto-guest4511]

50:07 I love that quote!

[@VSSEDragon3]

4:53 some of aliens aren't attacking, by why?

[@ligersensei362]

Ever play Steel Gunner?

[@VSSEDragon3]

Or Time Crisis series is getting a new trademark in 2023

[@竹内焔]

こんなエイリアン大量に襲い掛かってきたら絶対生き残れないわｗ こういうゲーム今じゃもう版権で絶対に制作できないよな…

[@AshBloodfire]

If I could romhack this game, I'd just tweak the names of the bosses. Super Facehugger to Queen Facehugger. Generic "Alien" at the end of Stage 2 Part 2 (so what were all the OTHER aliens, then?) to "Armored Alien", explaining how it could take so many shots. "Super Dogburster" to "Praetorian Dogburster", to line up with an evolution the xenomorphs can undergo in the expanded universe and have appeared in games such as the Aliens vs Predator beat 'em up, to explain why it can keep 'healing' from the blown apart animation. And of course, the proper name for the 'Alien' boss of Stage 4, 5, and the first part of 6, the name given to it in the film by the insane prisoner Golic: The Dragon. The Unidentified Man can keep his name.

[@zwickd13]

its like the terminator 2 arcade game but we never had that one here

[@lala4465]

5:06 This sound is from "the blood test" scene of John Carpenter The Thing

[@1or2there]

This is makng me want 2 startup my MAME emulatr . . .

[@radagastaddams3703]

don't remember any of this stuff in the utterly soul crushing Alien 3 I saw at the cinema. even the soundtrack gave my cat depression

[@ratius1979]

Courtown arcade, Wexford, Ireland circa 1994 🥰🤘🥰

[@CopiousDoinksLLC]

Grundy's Playcentre, Surfer's Paradise, Australia circa 1995

[@РоманБорисенко-ю7ю]

Хорошая стрелялка на уровне Терминатора

[@legitbeans9078]

Well that scared the shit our of me when the logo turned into alien and it screamed. Well played

[@Tantemify]

i wasted alot of coins. i died too much. it was very fun during its time

[@gamesvariety726]

nice gameplay, i miss the 90s

[@logicaloverdrive8197]

always a treat when the movie sucked but the tie in game is actually fire.

[@MDX484]

Even this game story have a lot more sense than the damn movie itself. And the cabinet were awesome.

[@ShadowSonic2]

No, not really...the movie was good

[@MrAlkylation]

there are no guns in alien 3 story....

[@Chickenworm9394]

There was no rescue of USS Sulaco either

[@Y2Kr4SHM4N]

And that was part of what made it suck. After the Queen and the ferocity of an entire nest, the movie goes back to a single alien. If they had taken a dual pronged approach and introduced us to a cast of characters who get split up, some exploring a station with one or a few solitary aliens, and others trapped on the planet below, whilst both groups had to work in tandem to coordinate and call in a rescue, it would have made for a far superior film.

[@DigitalFulcrum]

Marines in movies... Taking it slow and clearing their sectors. Marines in this game.... Run around hallways and chance face huggers.

[@gameboy8425]

48:53 now that's fucking disturbing

[@Jiterdomer]

Was this happen in the movie?

[@VSSEDragon3]

4:53, 5:00, 5:10 some of Dogbursters (xenomorph) aren't attacking you (Lickers Resident Evil Damnation references)

[@theycallmejpj]

We had this at our local arcade along with a Jurassic park pinball machine

[@bergiTown69]

the music is the bomb!

[@dja-train2265]

I love how this game had absolutely zero to do with the movie, since the only actual guns that showed up were in the last 5 minutes, and there were only two aliens seen in the whole thing.

[@Amadeus_Eisenberg]

I like how there's some random guy in casual office clothing lying on the floor from time to time. Probably one of the developers lol

[@VSSEDragon3]

Big powerful aliens are known as Praetorians

[@schockbock-w8l]

Super Face Hugger, that's so 90s. 😆

[@VSSEDragon3]

Kinda reminds me of Super Licker beta from Resident Evil Damnation movie, 2 of them, still alive

[@Cruor34]

Why the hell are robots attacking the player? I could understand a pure robot level as they maybe went haywire when a computer system was damage but why are they allied with the aliens? makes no sense.

[@wilcee238]

They want to stop you from killing the aliens so they can capture and study them.

[@rodimus7926]

This game is better than the actual movie

[@chadking1938]

Have this on the snes classic and it's barely playable. Missing background on certain levels, curser can't go further and bit lagging too.

[@bryanesbertgo4718]

The "Unidentified Man" is resemblance to Bishop from Aliens 3

[@garushkahn5857]

remember playn this in italy... good times :O

[@manicmonochrome7098]

So many memories this is amazing.

[@evorevok1767]

17:30 Aliens were nice enough to wait for you to turn around

[@JimJimakos-ov4lh]

I wish one remake like aliens fireteam

[@VSSEDragon3]

They already made a DLC Fireteam Elite

[@thestrongduck6039]

How do i play the game on pc?

[@SolCresta3405]

I know the final confrontation in the movie involved a man in sunglasses who resembled the Bishop android, but I'm still disappointed with the final boss being that guy. It should have been against the Dragon.

[@kevinmarsh9057]

I remember this game 🎮 always thought it was funny that there was only two aliens if you included the qween in riply in the movie

[@VSSEDragon3]

Ripley Vs the Queen 👑 Alien 👽

[@terminus8497]

this looks amazingly similar to DOOM style 3D. I wonder if the developers were using similar algorithms to achieve their 3D style? is it something like binary space partitioning ?

[@houstonhelicoptertours1006]

No. This is all achieved via scaling BG layers (+ line scroll in some places) and tons of large, scaling sprites. As for the "walls" 1. vertical strips/sprites (unlikely here but still a way to do it) 2. (far more likely) large sprites with the proper rotations since the system can store and draw these easily Games that do similar things for their "walls" are Sega's Last Survivor and Taito's Space Gun and Gun Buster.

The music seems faster than normal but I slightly like it more than the normal one. What emulator you used when you uploaded this Longplay?

[@coraltwining7830]

That reminds of Jurassic Park, which I played with my mom at a Chuck E. Cheese in Fort Wayne, IN, as part of of a family lunch outing, in 1998. (I was 11 years old at the time.) Of course, that game used mounted guns and you had to sit in a chair that moved along with the progression of the game, contrary to using light guns and having to stand up. Not to mention this game came out the same year as both the JP game and the original film!

[@Jiterdomer]

Both were made by same developer and ran on same hardware.

[@aidanmcgrath911]

What console is this on? Is it on arcade only. It looks great.

[@kopfdertoten466]

I love An Unidentified Man he's my favorite character

[@Wolf10media]

Know what, this game is the true Alien 3. That's right it's canon. Yes Ripley went on a murder party on Xenos on the Saluco. Yes there is a Terminator vs Aliens on planet Furina. All of it, canon. (No Offense Lynch, still would love to see your cut.)