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{{Infobox video game |title = Altered Space |image = Altered Space - A 3-D Alien Adventure Coverart.png |caption = North American cover art |developer = Software Creations |publisher = {{vgrelease |NA|Sony Imagesoft |JP|Epic/Sony Records |EU|Hi Tech Expressions<ref name="release-data">''[http://www.gamefaqs.com/gameboy/585607-altered-space-a-3-d-alien-adventure/data Altered Space Release Data]'' at gamefaqs.com. Retrieved September 7, 2010.</ref>{{better source|date=December 2025}}}} |artist = Anthony Anderson |programmer = Mike Follin |composer = Geoff Follin<ref name="pmh">''[http://www.snesmusic.org/pmh/view.php?id=293 Altered Space Composer Information]'' at Portable Music History. Retrieved June 24, 2012.</ref> |released = {{vgrelease |NA|September 1991<ref name="release-data" />{{better source|date=December 2025}} |JP|November 29, 1991 |EU|1991<ref name="release-data" />{{better source|date=December 2025}}}} |genre = Puzzle <br> Adventure |modes = Single-player |platforms = Game Boy |}}
'''''Altered Space''''' is a 1991 video game produced for the Nintendo Game Boy.
==Gameplay== The player is an astronaut named Humphrey trapped on a spaceship of an alien race known as the Zaks. In addition to avoiding the Zaks, the player must also avoid wardenlike spherical creatures known as Garffs. Humphrey cannot breathe the Zaks' air, so he needs to constantly replenish his own oxygen supply. The Zaks will take half of Humphrey's air should they capture him and send him to a detaining point to be reset like a checkpoint. The object of the game is for Humphrey to reach his own impounded spacecraft and flee back to Earth.
This was the first isometric view game on the Game Boy.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}
==Development== ''Altered Space'' was developed by Software Creations.<ref name="blastem">{{cite magazine|publisher=GamePro Publishing|issn=1042-8658|location=United States|magazine=Handheld Video Games|page=back cover|title=Blast 'Em, Humphrey!|quote=Altered Space is distributed by Sony Imagesoft, Inc. [...] Developed by Software Creations (ROM Development)|date=October–November 1991}}</ref> It was published by Sony Imagesoft in the United States and by Epic/Sony Records in Japan.<ref name="blastem" /><ref name="famitsu-155" />
==Release and reception== {{Video game reviews |align = left | Fam = 6/10, 5/10, 4/10, 4/10<ref name="famitsu-155">{{cite magazine|magazine=Weekly Famicom Tsūshin|title=New Games Cross Review|issue=155|date=December 6, 1991|page=39|language=Japanese|publisher=ASCII Corporation|authorlink1=Hirokazu Hamamura|last1=Tsūshin|first1=Hamamura|last2=Suzuki|first2=Altz|last3=Watanabe|first3=Miki|author4=TacoX}}</ref> |rev1 = ''Games-X'' |rev1Score = 4/5<ref name="games-x" /> |rev2 = ''GB Action'' |rev2Score = 84%<ref name="GB-Action-Rev">{{cite magazine|magazine=GB Action|title=Review: Altered Space|date=August 1994|page=16|issue=28|publisher=Europress Publications|editor-last=Lee|editor-first=Alex|location=United Kingdom}}</ref> }}
''Altered Space'' was released for the Game Boy in Japan on November 29, 1991.<ref name="famitsu-155" />
Reviewers in ''Famitsu'' compared the game to ''Solstice'' (1990) due to its isometric view point. They found this led to confusion in controls initially as they often moved in unintended directions. One reviewer said the game was cruel as it often led them to die in ways they deemed unfair.<ref name="famitsu-155" /> A reviewer in ''Games-X'' found the game similar to older British computer games like ''Knight Lore'' (1984) for the ZX Spectrum finding it as impressive as the older classics but lacking in terms of its music quality.<ref name="games-x">{{cite magazine|magazine=Games-X|date=November 14–20, 1991|title=Console Connexions|page=34|publisher=Europress|location=United Kingdom}}</ref>
In a retrospective review in ''GB Action'' from 1994, a reviewer said the game had a considerable emphasis on playability and adventure which are both absent in many contemporary Game Boy games, but found it less polished than the similar game ''Monster Max''.<ref name="GB-Action-Rev" />
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==External links== * [http://gameboy.ign.com/objects/010/010260.html IGN page] * {{mobygames|/54890}}
Category:1991 video games Category:Epic/Sony Records games Category:Game Boy games Category:Game Boy-only games Category:Hi Tech Expressions games Category:Puzzle video games Category:Adventure games Category:Science fiction video games Category:Single-player video games Category:Software Creations games Category:Video games developed in the United Kingdom Category:Video games with isometric graphics
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