Alien Abduction (by John Van Ryzin) - (WAS in VCS Store - removed)

[markofwolves]

Your best result?
For me, level 16 and  I played it for about two hours.

[+jeremiahjt]

4 minutes ago, markofwolves said:

Your best result?
For me, level 16 and  I played it for about two hours.

What was your score?

[markofwolves]

22 minutes ago, jeremiahjt said:

What was your score?

28.000.

[markofwolves]

Finished. Among the surprises of the year. Challenging and if you don't get to the end, you won't stop.
Congratulations to the author.

 

Edited December 30, 2023 by markofwolves

[+jeremiahjt]

Dang, good job.

[markofwolves]

Since the author of the game wrote in this post. I have a curiosity:

 

Why does a withe/purple space woman appear on the VCS store illustration (beautiful), while in the game there is a girl dressed in jeans and a red t-shirt?

 

Best regards.

Edited December 31, 2023 by markofwolves

[+Neon Wraith]

Just like every other 2600/7800 game, use your imagination.

 

 

VS.

 

 

[John Van Ryzin]

Why does a withe/purple space woman appear on the VCS store illustration (beautiful), while in the game there is a girl dressed in jeans and a red t-shirt?

Ha!  Good point. The cover artist (my brother) went by my text description (princess abducted.) of the game.  I guess because 2600 art is very primitive for a commercial artist to relate to.  Maybe he will change her clothes.

[+jeremiahjt]

Finally beat Alien Abduction.  My final score was 40,551. That does not come close to my best score, which was into the many hundreds of thousands, but I finally did beat it.  Thank you Mr. Van Ryzin for a fun game.  I have also been playing a lot of 2600 Video Computer System H.E.R.O. lately, trying to get the patch score of 75,000.  My best so far is 57,935.

[+wongojack]

Man, I want to play this.  When will it escape the VCS?

[+jeremiahjt]

18 hours ago, wongojack said:

Man, I want to play this.  When will it escape the VCS?

Garry Kitchen said Audacity Games may have an announcement to make at CORGSCON on June 1st. I think this announcement could be about a cartridge release for Alien Abduction.

 

Or you could always buy a VCS 800.

[RollOut]

2 hours ago, jeremiahjt said:

Or you could always buy a VCS 800

Took the words right out of my reply.

 

One of us, one of us...

[+jeremiahjt]

On 4/25/2024 at 6:33 PM, wongojack said:

Man, I want to play this.  When will it escape the VCS?

 

On 4/26/2024 at 12:46 PM, jeremiahjt said:

Garry Kitchen said Audacity Games may have an announcement to make at CORGSCON on June 1st. I think this announcement could be about a cartridge release for Alien Abduction.

 

Or you could always buy a VCS 800.

Looks like I was right. Audacity Games is doing a cartridge release of Alien Abduction. Orders open on June 15th.

[+sramirez2008]

1 hour ago, jeremiahjt said:

 

Looks like I was right. Audacity Games is doing a cartridge release of Alien Abduction. Orders open on June 15th.

I purchased it for my VCS800, but will purchase the cart from Audacity too.

[+GoldLeader]

Maybe it will go from the vcs to the VCS heh...

[NISMOPC]

On 6/2/2024 at 3:07 AM, GoldLeader said:

Maybe it will go from the vcs to the VCS heh...

Got my collector's copy this past weekend at CORGSCON...
...official release date is JUNE 15th.

[+GoldLeader]

1 hour ago, NISMOPC said:

Got my collector's copy this past weekend at CORGSCON...
...official release date is JUNE 15th.

NICE!!

[brianwolters]

I went to purchase Alien Abduction! on my VCS and I can't find it in the store anymore. Is it just me? 

[Atari_JaguarVCS]

This game always seems to disappear from the Atari VCS store. It's probably down for good this time to maximize cartridge sales in the end. It's a fun game but i personally stopped bothering with it in the end due to all the keeping it on the store then removing it again etc, I'll certainly not be buying it on cartridge .  

[THX-1138]

That game is up and down like a cheap hooker's underwear.

[+Neon Wraith]

6 hours ago, THX-1138 said:

That game is up and down like a cheap hooker's underwear.

I didn't think they wore underwear!

[zzip]

On 6/8/2024 at 11:56 AM, brianwolters said:

I went to purchase Alien Abduction! on my VCS and I can't find it in the store anymore. Is it just me? 

It's not shocking since the author seemed to change his mind about being on VCS a couple times in the past.  I think he wanted the game on cart,  and sounds like Atari didn't want to do that so he took it to Audacity.

[Mockduck]

My guess is John Van Ryzin decided to pull it from the VCS ahead of the physical cart sale through Audacity, which includes a digital ROM in the $99 and $150 packages. So, maybe its VCS release was a temporary one, sadly. This plus a few other games is the reason to make sure to download your whole library onto a hard drive or USB and keep it up to date, the console has seen a few games disappear for good.

[brianwolters]

Thanks for all of the input...I am a new VCS user and I was just about to get the game and I guess I missed it. 

[zzip]

3 minutes ago, brianwolters said:

Thanks for all of the input...I am a new VCS user and I was just about to get the game and I guess I missed it. 

Watch this space, it may return who know?