Alien Quest V1.01 -

I’m not talking about a prototype. I’m talking about a point-one patch from 1987. Last week, at a dusty flea market in Ohio, I found a loose gray cartridge with a peeling sticker that simply read: Alien Quest v1.01 .

Here are the three things I discovered after plugging this cursed thing into my retro-rig. alien quest v1.01

Alien Quest v1.01 is not "better" than the final version. It’s broken, unfair, and the frame rate drops to single digits whenever you fire the plasma rifle. But it has soul . I’m not talking about a prototype

It feels like the developers built a horror game, and the publisher sanded off the edges to sell it as an action game. alien quest v1.01