A movie scene inspires a genre of casual games

The movie is Ali­ens — the James Cameron action flick that spawned all sorts of video-game and cul­tural cliches. But it also spawned some inter­est­ing ideas in cas­ual gam­ing. Con­sider this scene: Ripley and the Mar­ines are bunk­ing down for the night in the ter­ra­form com­plex on LV-426. But first they have to secure the main med­ical centre in the com­plex from alien attack. …more

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