''Incidente em Varginha'' (also released as ''The Varginha Incident'' and ''Alien Anarchy'') is a 1998 Brazilian

first-person shooter First-person shooter (FPS) is a sub-genre of shooter video games centered on gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action through the eyes of the protagonist and controlling the p ...

game developed by Perceptum. The game is based on the

Varginha UFO incident The Varginha UFO incident involves a series of events in 1996 when residents of Varginha, Brazil claimed seeing one or more strange creatures and at least one unidentified flying object (UFO). Other associated claims include the capture of one or ...

, in which three people claimed to have seen an alien in the city of

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, Brazil.

Development

''Incidente em Varginha'' was designed by Marcos Cuzziol (software engineer), Odair Gaspar (industrial engineer and programmer) and Fábio Cardelli (sound designer). The game was announced in a press release on 10/09/98. After release, Perceptum signed an agreement with U.S. Special Forces training center and NovaLogic in order to use the software to train

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soldiers.

Critical reception and legacy

Two thousand copies were sold in Brazil and 20,000 in the rest of the world. The game has a legacy of being Brazil's first FPS.

References

External links

Incidente em Varginha at Mobylist
1998 video games DOS games DOS-only games First-person shooters Video games about extraterrestrial life Video games developed in Brazil Video games set in Brazil Sprite-based first-person shooters 3D GameStudio games {{fps-videogame-stub