Does Xenophobe have an ending?

Les Manley

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Played this a lot in the arcades and I can remember rolling the score on the NES version, but I never got an ending. Do you keep going from space station to space station without an ending? Anyone know?
 
Well, if you die, the game ends. :D


If you actually kill off all the aliens, you move on to another ship that is harder. Difficulty keeps increasing until you're dead....
 
BTW - never saw this poster before, but I want it now...

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Yes it does

There is an ending to it, at least, in the Atari Lynx port I played there was.

It took a long time to get to it but eventually you would get to a planet that had a cave you would enter, and at the end was a large Alien Queen (not the one that hangs around corners in the bases). It took alot of shots into one spot on it to kill it. After that the game ends and credits roll.

Now as to the arcade version, I've never played it long enough and I don't have one now to do it. The Lynx port took several hours to beat if I remember correctly. I *think* there was 100 bases you had to fight thru, not sure on that part though.
 
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I have never seen that poster either. So it's kinda like Spy Hunter then...play till you die. I figured as much cause we played for hours. Makes sense too since they are both from Midway.

> So it's kinda like Spy Hunter then...play till you die.

Yeah, except you can't add more coins to spy hunter and keep playing. :)
 
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