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Home Alone

DOS - 1991
Also available on: Amiga

A fun platform game based on the hit movie of the same name, Home Alone casts you as 7-year-old Kevin who is left alone in the house as his parents absent-mindedly left for vacation. His immediate problem: 2 burly burglars who found their chance to break into the house. As Kevin, you must fight off the Wet Bandits as you protect your home.

Gameplay follows a fun two-pronged approach: while picking up valuables around the house so they don't get stolen, you must at the same time carefully lay traps for the bandits, using everyday items in the house. Those who have never seen Kevin's resourcefulness in the movie aren't at a disadvantage, however: items that you can use or pick up flashes on the screen, and are easily distinguishable from background graphics. You don't have much time left before the bandits break into the house, so the first few minutes are crucial to success.

The game suffers somewhat from the save-and-restore syndrome, since it will likely take many deaths (well, actually kidnaps) before you figure out the bandit's movement patterns and find the optimal way to lay traps. However, the game's colorful, smooth graphics and the fun of figuring new uses for household items more than surpass this weakness. Once you have collected enough items from an area, a key will appear that will let you enter the basement for the final sequence and hilarious endgame.

Overall, Home Alone is definitely one of the better movie adaptations I've seen, and a refreshing break from Capstone's typical crappy games (but then again, they didn't develop the game themselves...) Recommended, especially to fans of the movie.

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

Chris 20 Jan. 2025

The description erroneously refers to features of the console versions of Home Alone. There are no valuables to collect, and this is hardly a platformer. There is no "hilarious endgame" in the basement.

The game is strictly picking up traps, setting them, then luring the Wet Bandits into them (or waiting for them to trigger them, though they will usually manage to bypass them if Kevin isn't in the same or an adjacent room).

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Anderson 14 Dec. 2021

hey, I used to play this game back then

1
cait 30 Nov. 2021

cool website

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MiniBlocs80 17 Dec. 2019

do you have the manual ? hacrak dosen work

0
B 22 Aug. 2019

After the games kicks you to a black screen for entering the wrong letter, type hacrack.exe The enter a letter screen will come back at which point it will accept any letter and let you play

3
ting 30 May. 2019

home alone game is interesting

-2
World Player 18 Dec. 2018

I run the game and works perfectly. I only click in HACRACK and open it. After, I press the key 'enter' without type anything and the games runs for a good.

1
field-os 12 Apr. 2017

You can only run this game in a certain way:
1. Start "HACRACK.EXE"
2. When it asks you the enter the code, press "N" (Capital N).
3. Play the game!
Your welcome.

3
sinesipho 04 Mar. 2017

Does this games really work

-1
Finito 11 Jun. 2015

i cant pick up any object, just run arround the house until the come in and catch me...does anybody knows how to fix that?

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Hulsie 02 May. 2015

I loved the digitized faces of Marv and Harry. That alone makes the game worth playing.

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Porta 03 Feb. 2015

If you pres F2 and F3 at the same time repeatedly, you can pass "through" the enemies, so they can never catch you! :D

0
Rini 19 Jan. 2015

I can't get past the copy write protected thing at the beginning so I can't even play the game. Searching google for the answer to see if that helps any.

-1
Daniel 31 Mar. 2014

Epic game. Love it!

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Downloads

DOS version
Game file
United Kingdom English
464 KB
Amiga version
Game file
United Kingdom English
3 MB

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