The 1976 script for "Alien" by Dan O'Bannon is just different enough from the filmed 1978 script to be interesting.

📜 https://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/alien_early.html

«STANDARD
Well, those things out there aren't the same, you know—the spaceship and the pyramid. They're from different cultures and different races. That ship just landed here—crashed like we did. The pyramid and the thing from it are indigenous.

HUNTER
How could anything be indigenous to this asteroid? It's dead.

STANDARD
Maybe it wasn't always dead.»

"I am the Law!"

Judge Dredd for the SNES came out roughly at the same time as the film starring Sylvester Stallone in June 1995. I guess hard deadlines are one of the reasons tie-in games are usually not great.

It seems decent at first, but disappointment comes quickly once you realise that blowing up the wrong box, or jumping off a platform at the wrong time, turns levels uncompletable.

It's hard to play a game never knowing if you're making progress or already a zombie.

#retrogaming #snes

In "Sam & Max Hit the Road" (1993) you control the dog Sam who, together with the rabbit Max, form the Freelance Police.

Your orders (which you take out of a cat on the street) are to bring back a thawed Bigfoot that has escaped a carnival along with Trixie, the Giraffe-Necked Girl.

LucasArts adventure games are known for their zany humour, but S&M takes it one step further: the jokes are less subtle and sometimes spicy, keeping up with their maturing audience.

#retrogaming #msdos #adventure