Alien Storm
Sega Horizontal Action 3 Players 1990 Technics/Graphical: 6 Sound: 7 Details: 6 Ideas: 8 Fun/Replayvalue: 8 Playability: 8 Overall Rating: 7 (of 10)

First things first. This cutie was published 1989. Keep that in mind while reading this review!
Funky gameplay and nasty enemies. They hide under plants (see pic), in phonecells, under a litterbox, they morph, ride on innocent victims or just grow outta the street to get u. Many many nice and detailed ideas in this action/beatup/shooter-mix.

Horizontal "beat-up" levels (in which u destroy aliens with the famous and all-known ACME-Monsterfragger1400XL) change with crosshair-ego-shooter levels or even "racing" levels. Game features everything a horizontal beatup needs. Chargemoves, some specials and a Superspecial. Powerups u find on the way give u Energy (pink meter) to attack more feriously. Crosshair levels are made much like eg Nam75, scrolling sideways. Destroy EVERYTHING to get power-ups and kill the aliens!

Aliens are NICELY!!!!!!! done and everything fits perfectly into the freaky athmosphere. Up to three players may play simultanously and even speechsamples are featured...remember: 1989!!! What a game! Loads of fun. Very well programmed! Grafix perhaps a bit outdated but a must-have for every Arcades collection!