History VideoGame / AlligatorHunt

* ExcusePlot: The game does not take itself very seriously. Check out the Spanish-language [[https://img.recreativas.org/202004/f/alligator-hunt-f9367.jpg ads for the game]], with your [[https://img.recreativas.org/202004/f/alligator-hunt-f9369.jpg spacecraft]] advertised as if it was a sports coupe.

* AsteroidThicket: An asteroid field shows up in one of the spaceship-themed levels, and while harmless you can blast them to bits for points.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Partially averted. If you're killed in space, the continue screen is your character gasping for air with one hand at the neck while he goes away. The lizards that appear in space after destroying their vehicles are totally fine there however.
* ChickenWalker: The aliens have chicken-legged mechs among their ranks, which appear just in the second stage. Their bodies are spherical and you aim for their heads and blow them up to make them collapse. Besides them, there're much smaller versions that appear in all but the space-based stages.
* CloakingDevice: Two enemy ships hidden such way appear moving through the last stage in space (watch out for them hiding stars as they move). Destroy each one of them to get a super missile.
* CoresAndTurretsBoss: The alien base's outpost on the surface of their planet, where their center is immobile, but it will summon turrets and alien vehicles as backup.
* CreatorCameo: [[spoiler: after you defeat the final boss, the mothership will appear suffering explosions, with an enemy ship and yours leaving it just before the ship blows up. The game's final scene is a zoom on the former and shows on its bridge several lizards modeled after the game's developers angered for having been defeated.]]
* DeflectorShields: You have an energy shield protecting both you and your ship later on. Depending of what has been set up on the dip switches, it can take one or two hits before being lost and turning you into an OneHitPointWonder [[spoiler: (and this game has ''no'' power-ups to restore lost shields.)]]
* DestructibleProjectiles: You can fire to and destroy the enemy projectiles, ''even the laser beams''.
* EarthIsABattlefield: The second stage has as background a city being attacked by the aliens, with their mechs towering over its buildings and firing, shots from it toward the sky and towards it from the sky, and explosion.
* ExcusePlot: The game does not take itself very seriously. See[[note]]Texts in Spanish[[/note]] the [[https://img.recreativas.org/202004/f/alligator-hunt-f9367.jpg game's ads]], with your [[https://img.recreativas.org/202004/f/alligator-hunt-f9369.jpg spacecraft]] advertised as if it was a sports coupe.
* FasterThanLightTravel: After you defeat the space crab/robotic spider guarding the wormhole over Earth, you jump into what looks like hyperspace which resembles the ''Franchise/StarWars'' blue hyperspace tunnel towards the space-based stages. Once they're cleared you jump again, this time to the aliens' planet.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When you're approaching to the second space boss -the military base-, one of the Lizard mechs will jump and will begin to run from side to side panicked.
* GameplayRoulette: The gameplay format varies from level-to-level. In one stage you could be fighting alien drones on foot (or skateboard), in another you're piloting a stolen spaceship
* IKnowMortalKombat: Somehow being good at video games allows two children to fend off an alien invasion fleet all by themselves. Don't ask.
* ImplausibleBoardingSkills: Levels in which you're on foot have you skating all over the place while shooting at alien enemies with massive expertise, even summersaulting on your skateboard to avoid projectiles and explosions without falling off your board.
* KickTheDog: Destroyed alien transport will frequently eject their pilots after exploding. The pilots can't be killed, except throwing them a missile, choosing to run off rather than face the players, but the player can repeatedly shoot at them which will make them drop power-ups and bonuses.
* KidHero: Your playable hero(es) couldn't be more than 10, and he's fending off waves and waves of alien invaders.

* MookMaker: The Lizard ships in the space levels. You can use that for your advantage, to rack up a hefty number of missiles.
* NeverBareheaded: Player 1 never drops his baseball cap (which, in true 90s' fashion, he wears backwards) even when he's sumersaulting and flipping all over the place on his skateboard.
* OneWingedAngel: The mutant brain, the last space boss. First you have to destroy its armor, while its weapon placements shoots you, and then you have to deal with it.
* OurWormholesAreDifferent: One that resembles a black hole above the earth serves as a short-cut to the alien planet. But it also contains assorted monsters, including a [[GiantEnemyCrab giant space crab]]/mechanical spider as a boss.
* PinataEnemy: The lizard pilots that are often released after destroying some of their vehicles if shots will begin to release missile power-ups to no end -just be careful of not being hit by other enemies when doing that-.

** The hyperspace is also very similar to the ''Star Wars'' one (a sort of blue tunnel).
** Some enemies have drawn the symbol used by the aliens in ''[[Series/{{V1983}} V]]''.
** The final stage, with you entering into the Lizard mothership and going into its core ks clearly based on the attack on the second Death Star in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* ShowsDamage: The buildings, starting with your base in the first stage, will show damage as they take it until they're destroyed. This is more visible with the enemy ships, that as they take hits will begin to show more and larger flames pouring from their hulls until they're seriously damaged when they'll stop firing or launching ships and will often accelerate away attempting to scape.
* StormingTheCastle: The climax level halfway through have your ship raiding the alien's mothership and destroying everything in your way.

** You can either fire at the lizards that are released after destroying some of their vehicles, giving you plenty of missiles, or blowing them to ashes throwing them a missile. Likewise, when a Lizard ship is scaping after having been heavily damaged nothing stops you of blowing it.
** As you ascend through the atmosphere, several birds appear. You can fire them to rack up bonuses
* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: If you're killed in one of the first two stages, the player's soul ascends upwards such way while playing a lire as the continue screen.

* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: If you're killed in one of the first two stages, the player's soul ascends upwards such way while playing a lire.

* AliensAreBastards: The villains of the game are an unnamed, generic-as-heck alien race who wants to invade earth just ''because''. And then they have their plans wrecked by two human kids.

* AsteroidThicket: An asteroid field shows up in one of the spaceship-themed levels, and you'll need to blast them to bits before they hit your ship.

* FasterThanLightTravel: After you defeat the space crab/robotic spider guarding the wormhole over Earth, you jump into what looks like hyperspace which resembles the ''Franchise/StarWars'' blue hyperspace tunnel towards the space-based stages. Once they're cleared you jump again, this time to the alien's planet.

* PiñataEnemy:

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can either fire at the lizards that are released after destroying some of their vehicles, giving you plenty of missiles, or blowing them to ashes throwing them a missile. Likewise, when a Lizard ship is scaping after having been heavily damaged nothing stops you of blowing it

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can either fire at the lizards that are released after destroying some of their vehicles, giving you plenty of missiles, or blowing them to ashes throwing them a missile.

* CreatorCameo: [[spoiler: after you defeat the final boss, the mothership will appear suffering explosions, with an enemy ship and yours leaving it just before the ship blows up

* ChickenWalker: The aliens have chicken-legged mechs among their ranks. Their bodies are spherical and you aim for their heads and blow them up to make them collapse.

* KickTheDog: Destroyed alien transport will frequently eject their pilots after exploding. The pilots can't be killed, choosing to run off rather than face the players, but the player can repeatedly shoot at them which will make them drop power-ups and bonuses.

* OurWormholesAreDifferent: One that resembles a black hole above the earth serves as a short-cut to the alien planet. But it also contains assorted monsters, including a [[GiantEnemyCrab giant space crab]] as a boss.