Plan 9 from Outer Space
Plan 9 from Outer Space is a point and click adventure game inspired by the 1957 Z movie of the same name. It was developed at the Irish office of Gremlin Graphics for the Amiga and Atari ST and published in 1992 by Gremlin in Europe and Konami in the United States. An MS-DOS version was also released.
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Distributors Corporation of America · Public domain
- Date
- 1992
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Plan 9 from Outer Space is a point and click adventure game inspired by the 1957 Z movie of the same name. It was developed at the Irish office of Gremlin Graphics for the Amiga and Atari ST and published in 1992 by Gremlin in Europe and Konami in the United States. An MS-DOS version was also released.
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There are two editions of the game: the more common version is packaged with a VHS copy of the film, while a rarer version contains only the game.
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• Title — Plan 9 from Outer Space • Developer — Gremlin Graphics • Publisher — Gremlin Graphics (Europe) Konami (US) • Released — 1992 • Genre — Adventure • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS
Plot
Plot
The game starts when the producer notices that the film has been stolen by Bela Lugosi's double. The player must carry out an epic search of the locations where Plan 9 from Outer Space was filmed to find the six missing reels. From the back of the MS-DOS version box:
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Computer Gaming Worlds Charles Ardai criticized the game's "cheap" user interface and mediocre graphics and sound, which made him uncertain whether various continuity errors were accidental or intended to satirize the film. Ardai stated that "Plan 9 is a genuinely, intentionally funny piece of work, which puts it several notches above the movie (in my opinion)... thoroughly enjoyable", and funnier than Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders. He added, however, that as "a licensed product, parasitic on an original work... its smirking digs at this rather pathetic relic of a movie... sometimes has the tone of a schoolyard bully taking cheap shots at a defenseless victim". Without the sincerity and "guilelessness" of Wood's film: "In this respect, the game attains a degree of cheapness that even the movie didn't reach, which is quite an accomplishment". The game was reviewed in 1993 in Dragon #190 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 2 out of 5 stars.
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- 1.Rudolph Grey, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1992). pg.203. ISBN 978-0-922915-24-8.
- 2.Plan 9 From Outer Space game.
- 3.Ardai, Charles. Konami/Gremlin's Plan 9 From Outer Space. Computer Gaming World. 36. January 1993.
- 4.Lesser, Hartley. The Role of Computers. Dragon. 190. 58. February 1993.
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