Alien Arena

Alien Arena
Developer: Duncan Brown Publisher: Duncan Brown Platform: Arcade (Williams 6809 hardware) Released in US: 1985 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has hidden developer credits.

Alien Arena is a capture-the-flag style game with several twists; Each player can collect items to set up mines, traps, sentries, and monsters. The game was intended to be sold as a conversion kit for Williams hardware (Stargate in particular), though it never made it out of a single test location. More information on the game (and the game's ROMs, which have been released to the public domain by the programmer) is available here.

Hidden Copyright Text

Two blocks of copyright text are in the game. Unlike the rest of the text in the game, these messages are in ASCII format.

First message at 0x105E3:

ALIEN ARENA IS (C) COPYRIGHT 1985
DUNCAN BROWN. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
***DON'T INFRINGE ON ME***

Second message starts at 0x12596:

ALIEN ARENA IS (C) COPYRIGHT 1985
DUNCAN BROWN. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
SO THERE.

(Source: Original TCRF research)