Alien Olympics

Alien Olympics is a video game in the action genre developed by Dark Technologies and published by Mindscape, Inc. originally released in 1994. It is currently playable on DOS.

Alien Olympics is a decent PC conversion of a Gameboy game of the same name, also little known, first released in 1992.

The game is best described as a caveman Olympics brought forward to the future. Despite the quirky settings and names, Alien Olympics is essentially a collection of familiar sporting events with slight modifications. Everyone will recognize that, for example, 'Toxicphilly' is simply archery (albeit shot with a crossbow at targets pushed by small aliens), and 'Alien Hurl' is shot put with corresponding substitutions of alien props.

What makes the game more interesting than many other fun sports games, however, is the fact that you have to choose your alter ego at the beginning of the game from among several aliens, each of which has unique strengths and weaknesses. The alien caterpillar, for example, is very good at shooting events, but very slow at racing. Two players are allowed in hot-seat mode, although it's not very practical as the keyboard fills up pretty quickly ;) The animations are fun, and the interface is intuitive: you can redefine the control keys, or use the joystick or gamepad to play.

With 15 events, Alien Olympics offers good gameplay and fun value despite a relative lack of creativity when it comes to turning conventional sports into something new (French developer ERE did it much better, as Project Neptune demonstrates). Fans of Caveman Ugh-lympics or similar titles will probably find Alien Olympics a fun galactic game, although it doesn't have as much charm as Dynamix's classic.

It is possible that we have multiple downloads available when different versions exist.