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* SerialNumbersFiledOff: Xenophobe doesn't even try to hide the fact that it's based on the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' film series.
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* GreenAndMean: The alien monsters.
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* TeleportersAndTransporters: There a transportation device that moves you to another part of the base, though it can only be operated if you discover a disk first. You're also transported onto the base at the start of each stage and off it at the end.
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* TeleportersAndTransporters: There There's a transportation device system that moves you to another part of the base, though it can only be operated if you discover a disk first. You're also transported onto the base at the start of each stage and off it at the end.
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* PunnyName: The player characters include Col. F. Truth and Dr. M. Brace.
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* PunnyName: The player characters include Col. F. Truth and Truth, Dr. M. Brace.Brace, and Mr. Eeez.
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* ShoutOut: Several of the names:
** Col. Poupon - To ''Clue'' (Col. Mustard) and Grey Poupon mustard
** Mr. Fogg is a nod to the main character from ''Around the World in Eighty Days''.
** Col. Schickn is most likely a nod to the founder of (and mascot for) Kentucky Fried Chicken, Colonel Sanders.
** Col. Poupon - To ''Clue'' (Col. Mustard) and Grey Poupon mustard
** Mr. Fogg is a nod to the main character from ''Around the World in Eighty Days''.
** Col. Schickn is most likely a nod to the founder of (and mascot for) Kentucky Fried Chicken, Colonel Sanders.
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Dr. Udderbay is the only female character. Col. Poupon is a Long Haired Prettyboy instead.
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* GoodOldFisticuffs: The marine's melee attack. While you can also collect knives, they are only used to cut free of tentacles hanging from the ceilings, should you end up stumbling into one.
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* GoodOldFisticuffs: The marine's marines' melee attack. While you can also collect knives, they are only used to cut free of tentacles hanging from the ceilings, should you end up stumbling into one.
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: There are only two human females among the nine player characters.
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: There are is only two one human females female among the nine player characters.characters, [[UnfortunateName Dr. Udderbay]].
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* TeleportersAndTransporters: There a teleportation device, transportation device that moves you to another part of the base, though it can only be operated if you discover a disk first.first. You're also transported onto the base at the start of each stage and off it at the end.
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'''''Xenophobe''''' is a 1987 arcade game created by Bally Midway (the future Creator/MidwayGames), later ported to consoles by Creator/{{Sunsoft}}. Three people can play at once, and the screen is divided horizontally into thirds. Each player controls a joystick with a trigger and two context-sensitive thumb buttons.
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* EyeBeams: Xeno Queen can shoot beams that paralyze the affected players and drain their health.
* FriendlyFireproof: Played with. The players' gun shots will ignore each other, but the explosions from the grenades can easily harm both the thrower and any unfortunate allies. Moreover, punching another player makes them fall down and drop their current gun, which can then be grabbed by the other player.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: The marine's melee attack. While you can also collect knives, they are only used to cut free of tentacles hanging from the ceilings, should you end up stumbling into one.
* FriendlyFireproof: Played with. The players' gun shots will ignore each other, but the explosions from the grenades can easily harm both the thrower and any unfortunate allies. Moreover, punching another player makes them fall down and drop their current gun, which can then be grabbed by the other player.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: The marine's melee attack. While you can also collect knives, they are only used to cut free of tentacles hanging from the ceilings, should you end up stumbling into one.
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* HiveQueen: Played straight with the Xeno Queen.
* HyperactiveMetabolism: Eating food collected on the level will heal the player character.
* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: The monsters that hatch from the eggs begin as Critters, which will slowly drain health when they latch on to your marine, but are otherwise slow and die in one shot. If left alone, they become Rollers, which also die in one shot, but are immune to gunfire when they perform their roll attack. Rollers can eventually evolve into Warriors, which take multiple shots to bring down, and will either rapidly leap at your marine and disarm them (which also occurs if you try to run past them) or spit acid.
* LifeDrain: This happens to the marines as a result of both the Critters latching on, and getting caught in the Hive Queen's eye beam.
* HyperactiveMetabolism: Eating food collected on the level will heal the player character.
* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: The monsters that hatch from the eggs begin as Critters, which will slowly drain health when they latch on to your marine, but are otherwise slow and die in one shot. If left alone, they become Rollers, which also die in one shot, but are immune to gunfire when they perform their roll attack. Rollers can eventually evolve into Warriors, which take multiple shots to bring down, and will either rapidly leap at your marine and disarm them (which also occurs if you try to run past them) or spit acid.
* LifeDrain: This happens to the marines as a result of both the Critters latching on, and getting caught in the Hive Queen's eye beam.
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* RollingAttack: The aptly titled Roller aliens specialize in this. They are also immune to damage when rolling, so you have to gun them down whenever they recover.
* ScoringPoints: You get points both for purging xenos and collecting bonus paraphernalia (which can include items like skulls and fire extinguishers.)
* ScoringPoints: You get points both for purging xenos and collecting bonus paraphernalia (which can include items like skulls and fire extinguishers.)
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* SuperSpit: The Warrior aliens are capable of spitting acid.
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* WeaponizedOffspring: The Xeno Queen fires proto-eggs at the players. If they land on the floor, they turn into basic Eggs, which then turn into Critters.
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* XenomorphXerox: Most of the alien monsters resemble the Xenomorph's various forms from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' film series. The game actually refers to them as "Xenos".
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* XenomorphXerox: Most of the alien monsters resemble the Xenomorph's various forms from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' film series. The game actually refers to them as "Xenos"."Xenos".
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'''''Xenophobe''''' is a 1987 arcade game created by Bally Midway (the future Creator/MidwayGames), later ported to consoles by Creator/{{Sunsoft}}. It involves an unnamed SpaceMarine trying to kill all the extraterrestrial monsters in each room before time runs out and a self-destruct mechanism goes off.
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'''''Xenophobe''''' is a 1987 arcade game created by Bally Midway (the future Creator/MidwayGames), later ported to consoles by Creator/{{Sunsoft}}. Three people can play at once, and the screen is divided horizontally into thirds. Each player controls a joystick with a trigger and two context-sensitive thumb buttons.
It involvesan unnamed SpaceMarine one to three {{Space Marine}}s, from a pool of nine, trying to collect valuable hardware and kill all the extraterrestrial monsters in each room before time runs out and a self-destruct mechanism goes off.off.
Wikipedia [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobe_(video_game) explains the gameplay more thoroughly]].
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* AttractMode: Surprisingly averted considering it's Unusually for an arcade game.game, it doesn't demonstrate any gameplay.
* ColorCodedMultiplayer: The red player plays in the upper third of the screen, the yellow player in the middle third, and the blue player in the lower third.
* ColorCodedMultiplayer: The red player plays in the upper third of the screen, the yellow player in the middle third, and the blue player in the lower third.
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* GreenAndMean: The alien monsters.
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* XenomorphXerox: Most of the alien monsters resemble the Xenomorph's various forms from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' series.
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* XenomorphXerox: Most of the alien monsters resemble the Xenomorph's various forms from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' series.film series. The game actually refers to them as "Xenos".
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'''''Xenophobe''''' is a 1987 arcade game created by Bally Midway (the future Creator/MidwayGames), later ported to consoles by Creator/{{Sunsoft}}. It involves an unnamed SpaceMarine trying to kill all the extraterrestrial monsters in each room before time runs out and a self-destruct mechanism goes off.
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* AttractMode: Surprisingly averted considering it's an arcade game.
* ExcusePlot: "Kill all the aliens in the time limit" is the only plot you get.
* TimedMission: You have to kill all the aliens before the self-destruct sequence goes off.
* XenomorphXerox: Most of the alien monsters resemble the Xenomorph's various forms from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' series.
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* AttractMode: Surprisingly averted considering it's an arcade game.
* ExcusePlot: "Kill all the aliens in the time limit" is the only plot you get.
* TimedMission: You have to kill all the aliens before the self-destruct sequence goes off.
* XenomorphXerox: Most of the alien monsters resemble the Xenomorph's various forms from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' series.
