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Area 51 is a popular rail shooter (a specialized form of a first-person shooter) arcade game issued by Atari Games in 1995. It takes its name from the Area 51 military facility. The plot of the game involves the player taking part in a militaryMilitary (from latin militarius miles "soldier") as an adjective describes anything related to soldiers and warfare. Used as a noun, it is equivalent to Armed force. See also Armed force Martial art Militaria Military history Military rule Military by cou excursion to prevent alienFor the 1979 movie, see Alien (movie). For live organisms which are not from Earth, see Extraterrestrial life Aliens are foreigners to their surroundings. The word is commonly used in law to denote non- citizens of the country of their whereabouts, and ins and alien-created zombieA zombie is a kind of undead, or figuratively, a very apathetic person. Zombies in Vodun According to the tenets of Vodun (voodoo), a dead person can be revived by a houngan or mambo. After resurrection, it has no will of its own, but remains under the cos from taking over the Area 51 military facility. The game allows for one of two endings, depending on whether or not the player successfully destroys the aliens' starshipThis article is about the vehicle for interstellar travel. Starship was also a mid- 1980s name for a follow-on to the band Jefferson Airplane. There is also an aircraft known as the Beechcraft Starship . A starship is a spaceship designed for interstellar during the endgame. A sequel, Area 51: Site 4, also exists.

The game is notable for its use of digitized video, and the bizarely contrasting unrealistic gibsIn computer games, gibs short for giblets, or fowl innards, are the little bits of internal organs, flesh, and bone, generally smaller than entire limbs but bigger than golf balls, left when a person or creature is exploded, typically by the use of a rock into which every enemy blows apart when shot.

Another interesting note about the game is its several "backdoors"; by shooting certain objects in the correct sequence players can unlock shooting exercises, weapon stashes, and gain bonus items that are not avaible in the main game plot.

Unlike other first person shooters, Area 51 allows the players to start at the begining of the game, or warp ahead to the middle of the game.

On August 31, 2004, Paramount Pictures announced that it had bought the world-wide film rights for the series. [1]