Alien Rampage

• Title — Alien Rampage • Developer — Inner Circle Creations • Publisher — Softdisk • Designer — * Christopher Simms • James Simms • Released — December 30, 1996 • Platforms — MS-DOS • Genre — Run and gun • Modes — Single-player

• Illustration — The game was noted for its high level of violence. The protagonist is an alien named Krupok whose spaceship was destroyed by Untharian scavengers and has crash-landed on the surface of a planet. The objective is to locate the Untharian base and repair the spaceship. Alien Rampage is a side-scrolling run and gun game. There are 21 levels featuring parallax scrolling. The levels are divided into three "episodes", each containing seven levels. The shareware version includes the first episode. The game features seven weapons (assault rifle being the starting weapon) which can be bought from an arms dealer as the player progresses in the game.

Alien Rampage was developed by Inner Circle Creations, a game developer founded in early 1995 by brothers Christopher and James Simms who lived in Louisiana at the time, the same state Softdisk was based in. The game was originally developed by Apogee Software as Ravager until it was cancelled, sold to Inner Circle Creations, and renamed to Alien Rampage. The shareware version was released on October 11, 1996. The full version was released on December 30, 1996. The game was available as a download and CD-ROM. Piko Interactive released an emulated version for Linux, macOS, and Windows in 2017. The release uses the DOSBox emulator. In 2024, the game was released on the Antstream Arcade streaming platform.