Area 51 (series)

Area 51
Genre(s)Gun game, First-person shooter
Developer(s)Mesa Logic, Inc., Midway Austin
Publisher(s)Time Warner Interactive, Atari Games, Midway Games
Platform(s)Arcade, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Sega Saturn, Microsoft Windows
First releaseArea 51
1995
Latest releaseBlackSite: Area 51
November 12, 2007

Area 51 is a video game series set in Area 51 military facility. The franchise was launched by Atari Games as a series of two arcade light gun shooters and was revisited by Midway Games as a series of first-person shooters. The original arcade games cast the player as a member of a special military unit that must battle an invasion of aliens called the Kronn. Versions of the original Area 51 were released for various home consoles. The Midway titles, exclusive to home systems, had different plots from the original games.