There are some games that you remember playing, and then there are games that take you straight back to a particular time in your life. Alien Breed is definitely one of those games for me.
I’m now 46, which means I’m officially at the age where I can tell younger people that games used to be harder, and start sentences with “When I was your age...” And Alien Breed takes me straight back to being younger, going around my mate’s house and playing with him on his Amiga.
Back then, the Amiga was my arch rival as I was club Atari ST. However I still found that the graphics were amazing, the sound was brilliant, and, most importantly, it was where I first experienced games like Alien Breed. A few years later, when I was around 15, I finally got my first PC and started playing the Alien Bre...