Alien Hominid started life as a Flash game on the web and in 2004 made the jump to consoles, including the Game Boy Advance, courtesy of the studio The Behemoth. It is a side-on shooter in which you control a small yellow alien fighting through waves of agents, drawing directly on the arcade run-and-gun tradition of the eighties but with an art style entirely its own.

That style is central to the game's identity. Hand-drawn visuals with heavy outlines, exaggerated animation and a streak of dark humour gave it an instantly recognisable face and set it apart from everything else in the genre at the time. The Behemoth built its reputation on this look and carried it into later projects.

Mechanically the game is punishing. The protagonist dies to a single hit, enemies are numerous and attack from every direction, so progress depends on memorisation and precise timing. That is deliberate — the game aligns itself with an arcade tradition in which repeated failure and learning by heart are the intended experience.

The GBA version had to cope with a smaller screen and weaker hardware, which meant adjustments to object counts and detail, but the style and the difficulty survived intact. The game is also interesting as a record of the move from the Flash web scene into commercial distribution, a route many later independent projects followed. On OldGame.cz there is a profile with release details and screenshots.