Alf the First Adventure (DOS)

Alf the First Adventure

Platform: DOS Year: 1988 Developer: Box Office, Inc.

Alf the First Adventure is the only arcade game starring Alf for DOS. It has been compared to Pac-Man and was converted to Alf the First Adventure (C64) and (AST).

Alf's Melmacian friends have crashed on Earth, and cats have hidden the spaceship parts. In four levels, Alf must carry four cats, two boxes and the garage key, one after another, to Willie's garage. To collect cats, Alf must eat pizza and has eight seconds then. When the dog catcher grabs Alf three times in one level, Willie puts Alf on a leash and the game ends. When Willie catches Alf directly, the level starts from scratch, except that the bails and clock keep counting. After 24 hours, the dog catcher nabs Alf's friends instead and the game ends as well.

Screenshots

The loading screen. The title screen. Illustrations. Charge! If you lose levels 2–4, it says you completed the previous level. Huh!? I was in level 2!

Music

The DOS adventure plays eight different sounds on the PC Speaker. They consist of a few notes from a C major scale, yet have a rather hard time qualifying as music. The longest sound is a famous jingle and comes at the start of every level.

Every single note was programmed in Turbo C. Technically, there are 11 sounds, but two are identical to others, and the one for completing level 4 never works.

Recording

The only song was recorded from DOSBox 0.74 with its default 3000 cycles.

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
01	Get Ready	Tommy Walker	Unknown	0:01		Download

Credits

• Ripper: N/A
• Recorder: Professor Chaos
• Game Credits:
  • Not Credited Composer: Tommy Walker
  • Not Credited Arranger: Unknown
  • Not Credited Foley Artist: Unknown
  • Not Credited Programmer: Unknown

(No source. Game lacks audio credits.)

Source verification is needed.

Game Rip

Format	Download
	N/A

All audio is hard-coded and requires a programmatic or logging format that outputs to the PC speaker. However, this is beyond the scope of this site.

Audio Devices

Music
Sound

Upon start, the program measures the speed of your PC. However, on fast PCs (including Pentium 60 MHz), the measurement loses count, so the gameplay in version 3.2 and the audio in both versions is way too fast.

While the cast moves over the level (not paused by audio or cutscene), you can press the S key to toggle all audio off or on again.

Releases

Versions 3.2 and 3.3 use a different timing method for the gameplay.

USA Title: Alf the First Adventure Platform: IBM Released: 1988-0?-?? Publisher: Box Office, Inc.

Links

• mobygames.com/game/1643/alf-the-first-adventure/ - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/715437-alf-the-first-adventure - GameFAQs.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALF:_The_First_Adventure - Wikipedia.

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