Alien Carnage (also known as Halloween Harry) is a follow-up to the 1985 game Halloween Harry, created for the Microbee System by John Passfield in 1985, but it has very little in common with the original game.

In this side-scrolling platformer, earth is being invaded by aliens who turn humans into zombies in order to enslave them. Harry is the only saviour of earth, and he has to traverse different levels and rescue the kidnapped humans. There are many different weapons to collect, and most have a limited amount of ammo.

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Alternate Titles

"Halloween Harry" -- Original/Alternate title

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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Alien Carnage	DOS	$10.94
	Alien Carnage	DOS	$3.90
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User Reviews

Whoopee-doo! Apogee makes their first VGA game!	B14ck W01f (37398)	unrated
General rule: Flamethrowers are sweeeet. HeHeHe....	Zovni (9425)
It's Halloween Harry!!	Toadstool (50)
A truely great game!	Tomer Gabel (4429)

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The Press Says

Freegame.cz	Jun 22, 2007	88 out of 100	88
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Apr, 1994	9 out of 12	75

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Trivia

Freeware Release

On May 24, 2007 Alien Carnage was released as freeware by 3D Realms with the permission of John Passfield. The game had previously been discontinued from their product line on April 21, 2000 due to it having problems running on Windows. They recommend using DOSBox to run the game on Windows 2000/XP/Vista.

Halloween Harry

Alien Carnage is actually the commercial release of Halloween Harry. It's identical except that the levels are played in a different order.

Music

The music in Halloween Harry was done with .mod files, slightly altered to not play in a standard mod player

Release History

This game's first publicly available version as Halloween Harry was version 1.1 released on October 10th 1993. Version 1.0 of the shareware version was an incomplete version released only to a UK magazine.

When the game was released as Alien Carnage, it's version 1.0 release was released on November 2nd 1994.

References

The 3rd level boss, a "sentry droid", is labelled THX-1138 -- George Lucas's first movie, made even before Star Wars. (This is a common injoke in the game industry.)

Studio.exe

The game includes a "Studio.exe" file in its directory (originally included as a bonus for acquiring the full version of halloween harry) which allows you to play all the music from the game.

Information also contributed by Scaryfun, Tomer Gabel, WildKard, Xantheous, Yakumo and Zovni

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by Accatone (5221) on Dec 04, 1999.