Alien Attack - Nick Peplow Productions

There is another game by the same name which has much more realistic three dimensional graphics and is a shooter game with attacking aliens, but there is something to the simplicity and a certain nostalgia to this one that I enjoy.

Particularly, the way they drew the little dish on the bottom of the alien craft reminds me of the first War of the Worlds movie (based upon Orson Wells radio play by the same name), and of coarse Tim Burton had fun with those in Mars Attacks as well.

Your ship being made to resemble the US space shuttle is also not without it's humor. They can barely get that thing off the ground and landed again without it self-destructing. The idea of going up against alien technology sufficiently advanced to get here from another planet with a bus propelled into space with 2.2 million pounds of high explosive is utterly ludicrous which only adds to the humor of the game.