hello everyone! I was wondering if you guys can help me out with something? back in the 90's I remember getting this little toy game thing from a flea market. (honestly why are they called flea markets? there's no fleas there, and even so, why would you WANT to buy fleas?) it was obviously based on ALIEN, it looked like it could have been Kenner but I don't remember. (keep in mind this is from memory and I just now remembered it) anyways, the game was like this. there was a crater looking thing with these holes on it's floor, these holes are where you place these little figurines with magnets on the head called astronauts, and connected to said crater display you had a crane with a magnet on it. the object of the game is to put all the astronaut figurines in the crater, then pull a string that has a little alien figurine tied to it (I remember it was quite cartoony and had big silly eyes, but i kinda liked it). your objective is to "rescue" as many of the astronauts as you can with the magnet crane before the alien gets to the crater and "Kills" the space guys. when it does reach the crater, a mechanism inside will pop and make the astronauts jump out of place. any astronauts left in the crater are dead and your left with the ones you saved. After that I don't remember, but I think it's meant to be competitive to see who can save the most astronauts. but I always played it with my mom. it's surprisingly fun from what I can recall. unfortunantly the game was lost during a flood, and now I kinda want to know if anyone else ran into a similar thing, maybe it was a KO, or if it was some rip off (though I liked it as a kid and now kinda think it's clever if done again but with a nostromo model or a derelict model instead of that crater thing).
-Titan
