Alien Storm

And that's why I'm going to recommend a game which is not any sort of Alien-based, but to me is very B-movie feeling.

And that is Alien Storm, the Sega Mega Drive or of your American Genesis game.

Which is kind of the forgotten sister title to Golden Axe.

If you want to play it nowadays, I'm sure it's available on lots of different formats.

It's available on the Nintendo Switch as part of the Nintendo Switch Online Plus Expansion Pack.

But let's get into it a little bit.

So Alien Storm is a side-scrolling beat-em-up.

And it has a very similar artistic style to Golden Axe.

... it's like, that is a, uh, really fun adaptation of that particular movie because, I mean, it's, it's, uh, technically you have a, uh, you do have a plasma rifle or, and you can, uh, pick up other weapons and everything.

So it's kind of tangentially a beat 'em up, kind of like Alien Storm.

But it's not necessarily run and gun either.

So I mean, it kind of fits in in this particular, uh, genre and everything.

I, I bet OutRun, like, as, like, a carnival r-

Alien Storm.

Yeah, OutRun would be cool

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Um, I gotta go with a game that had an interesting concept and handled horribly.

Um, Alien Storm.

What? What do you mean handled it horribly? I thought you liked...

You didn't like that game?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You can riddle it with bullets, which is quite similar to an earlier Sega arcade game called Alien Storm, if anyone played that.

That would switch to a first-person perspective every now and again.

It's a side-scroller, but it'd go first-person.