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. It was developed by

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game developer

Housemarque Housemarque Oy is a Finnish video game developer based in Helsinki. The company was founded by Ilari Kuittinen and Harri Tikkanen in July 1995, through the merger of their previous video game companies, Bloodhouse and Terramarque, both of which ...

and published by

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for

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Plot

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, Benjamin Richards is at his uncle's mansion to bear witness to his newest invention, the " Worm Hole Spawner". Upon activation, a wormhole brings an

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spaceship into the Solar System. The aliens kidnap Benjamin's uncle, whom the player must rescue in addition to stopping the alien threat.

Development

The game was initially developed by Bloodhouse (before the company merged with Terramarque to form Housemarque) and it was known during development as ''Leokadia''. In January 1994 a six-person team had developed the game for nine months and it was due for release in Fall 1994 for PC and later for

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. The game came out in 1996 for PC and the Amiga 1200 version was cancelled.

Reception

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'' gave the game 90 out of 100.

References

External links

* {{Housemarque 1996 video games Adventure games Alien abduction in video games Cancelled Amiga games DOS games DOS-only games GameTek games Halloween video games Housemarque games Point-and-click adventure games Video games about extraterrestrial life Video games developed in Finland Video games scored by Jonne Valtonen Single-player video games