Arcade Game #01: Alligator Hunt

アリゲーター・ハント

Information

• Published and developed by Gaelco S.A. (based in Barcelona, Spain), released in 1994
• 2 player co-op shooter
• Toni López Yeste and Esteve Polls are the game’s designers, Luis Johana is the game’s director, Xavier Arrebola G., Xavier Fradera, and Toni Rodríguez are the game’s artists, and Joan Sanmarti is the game’s composer.

MobyGames describes the game:

One or two players take on the role of skateboarding kids who fight off an invasion of alien reptiles. The first two stages take place on earth, after that the players get on a spacecraft, flies through space and finally takes on the reptile home planet.

Players can only move left and right in the bottom part of the screen and at the same time they can move a crosshair across the screen to shoot. There are two weapons, the standard laser shot with unlimited ammo and a limited missile shot. Shooting certain targets will drop down bonus items which include M icons for extra missiles, S icons for super missiles and bonus points. Shooting the bonus points increases their value. After each stage the game shows a meter for brutality and efficacy.

The game features digitized music, digitized explosion effect and some scenes with prerendered 3D animations.

Players take the role of two rad skateboarding kids. The Player 1 character has blond hair, a red baseball cap that is always worn backwards, a white T-shirt, green shorts, and green Chuck Taylor-inspired sneakers. He has a red skateboard and his ship/astronaut suit is light purple. The Player 2 character has a chubby body. He has black hair and wears a yellow Rambo-inspired headband, a black sleeveless T-shirt that always has tattered sleeves and always exposes his midriff; the T-shirt reads “KILL” written in purple capital letters on the back. He also wears blue jeans (hilariously, the players can see Player 2’s butt crack) and blue Chuck Taylor-inspired sneakers. He has a purple skateboard and his ship/astronaut suit is green.

There’s nothing much about this game, because the game’s developer is a Spanish company, and is the first game I reviewed that is made by a Spanish company as the game did not have a Japan release. Also, the first arcade game review.