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Alpha (アルファ?) is a video game developed and published by Square Co., Ltd. for the NEC PC-8801 and NEC PC-9801 in 1986.

Story

During the 21st century, humanity was exhaustively explore the solar system, for the planet of the solar system other than the development goals. Planet of Epsilon Eridanus star systems that destination α (alpha). Indeed, also of 10.7 light years is the distance from the earth. However navigation speed of the spacecraft is not only put out only a few percent of the speed of light, I also require several hundred years of the course to the destination is reached. Providing a huge settlements in the spacecraft, to form a society of one, the only way left in the human race has not been established yet also technologies such as artificial hibernation, for many generations, while life the life of self-sufficiency it is was only reach Te. On board... interstellar navigation for spacecraft of "Daedalus", now, the story of one is about to begin. Nestled on a small hill overlooking the ship, one girl. Fluttering in the wind long hair, you are staring at a point still. Her name is Chris. It was all of her memory.

Gameplay

This work in the adventure game that was released in 1986, the player met various people to become Chris, you will be the adventure of looking for his mission in the revolution that occurred on board. The game employs a command input method. As well as adventure games of the time, the difficulty of the game has been set to greatly enhanced. There is no game over by the death of Chris, but the game will progress to forget seeing the password forfeit the key items to police robot, at a certain scene, such as a mistake in the scene that are not allowed typo, it has been fully such a failure please note that no longer, because the game is over de facto. Also indispensable in talking about this work it would be animation. Animation expressive and shooting scene of Chris can be seen from the opening, found in everywhere, even during the game, became the big topic among fans at the time.

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