Alan '96
Release type: Freeware
Release date: February 6, 1996
Levels: 10
Author: Adam Tyner
Related games: Alan!, Alan B-Day, Alan '95, Bear Fun Show, Blip!
FULL ENTRY COMING SOON!
Very detailed levels and sprites. Lots of attention.
Interstitial in-engine screens. "I'm in Mister Spiff!"
Enemies freeze for no more than a second or two. Alan's injury animation takes quite a while, leaving him open to repeated damage.
Every level is different.
Level two takes the design meta-commentary to another level, with its descriptive tiles.
Level three is the only Pac-Man tribute to use that counter-draining trick, to ensure that the player eats every pellet.
Level four is a top-down action-adventure seemingly inspired by Gauntlet.
Level five is a small room filled with Andy Warhol-esque portraits of "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Level six is a Dig Dug style game featuring a Blip!-like protagonist. A bit like Q*Bert.
Level seven is stylized with super-pixelated sprites and a screenshot of Game-Maker.
Level eight is missing key image content (sprites, background tiles).
What does Alan throw? Cans? Toast? Spam?
He repeatedly emits a word bubble: "HEY!", presaging the word bubbles in Adam '97
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Story
Alan's New Birthday Game!
Well, you got a thing from Radio Shack on how to make a video capture board! The thing is that you used a double-watt doohickey instead of a single-watt double bypass circuit (ooh, technical!). That means that when you hooked it up, it sucked you AND everything in your room into the computer!!!
NO! Even the Dummy Statue! Get out if you can!
Oh, Dummy's present is late. Press the secret key! You also must play through other games... I want you to see them yourself, tho'! To win, get out! Yay!
Instructions
Fun Instructions!!!
Icons: Palladia P: Energy!
LEVELS ONE AND TWO:
- Moving: Numeric keypad or joystick.
- Firing: ENTER or Button 2 on joystick.
LEVEL THREE:
- Moving: Numeric keypad or joystick.
LEVELS FOUR-ELEVEN:
- Moving: Numeric keypad or joystick.
- Firing: ENTER or Button 2 on joystick.
Credits
Eat Cud. It's gud. Like 'good,' only better. And it looks more like 'cud.' OH! ALAN'S NEW BIRTHDAY GAME is by Adam "Spoon" Tyner.
Actors:
- Bear - Himself
- Weird Al - Himself
Catering by:
- World o' Cud
Availability
This game is not known to have been distributed in any form, prior to its addition to the Archive.
Archive History
After an earlier wave of rediscoveries, on July 13 2011 Alan Caudel provided another archive of previously missing Game-Maker material, including the following:
Links
Downloads
- Alan '96 (241 kB)
