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LEGO Alpha Team

Item №:	see Versions
LEGO Theme:	Alpha Team
Price:	see Versions
Developer(s):	Digital Domain Climax Group (GBC)
Publisher(s):	LEGO Media
Date Released:	2000
Genre:	Puzzle
Mode(s):	Single Player
Rating:	E/3+
Platforms:	Windows PC, Game Boy Color

LEGO Alpha Team is a video game created by Digital Domain which was released in 2000. The Alpha Team theme that followed in 2001 was based on the game.^[1]

Description[]

The game puts the player in the role of the Alpha Team chief, in a space station orbiting Earth, commanding the Alpha Team members as they infiltrate Ogel's four bases (Ogel Island Laboratories, the Goo Caverns, the Deep Sea Orb Factory, and the secret Arctic Command Base). The player is guided by Tee Vee and commands rest of the Alpha Team:

Dash, the motion expert
Crunch, the explosives expert
Radia, the lasers expert
Charge, the electrical expert
Cam, the motors expert
Flex, the ropes expert

The game's plot revolves around Ogel's D.O.O.M. Machine producing Evil Orbs that turn regular townspeople into mindless zombies, with Ogel secretly plotting to launch a Boggle Rocket to spread these orbs across the entire globe. Alpha Team agents infiltrate Ogel's compounds around the world but are captured and imprisoned in Trouble Tubes, leaving only Tee Vee, Dash, and the player as the last free members of the team. With the player's leadership and Tee Vee's instructions, Dash travels between each of Ogel's bases, using equipment to rescue his teammates, open locked doors, neutralize Evil Orbs, and foil Ogel's plan to take over the world.

A Game Boy Color version of the game retains the same basic gameplay as the PC game. There are minor differences from the PC version's plot: Cam is rescued in the Deep Sea Factory, while Flex and the D.O.O.M. Machine are both found in the Ogel Arctic Base.

Characters[]

Character	Missions	Expertise	Unlocked	Equipment
Dash	42 (PC) 32 (GBC)	Motion	Mission One (PC) Ogel Island (GBC)	Direction Tile Stairs Slide Jump Tile Trampoline Dash's Diving Board
Crunch	17 (PC) 24 (GBC)	Explosives	The Trouble Tube (PC) The Tachyon Trap (GBC)	Plunger Detonator Remote Control Bomb Puncher Platform SeeSaw with Ball Crunch's Rolling Bomb
Radia	17 (PC) 4 (GBC)	Lasers	Trouble Train Depot (PC) Power Down (GBC)	Plunger Laser Horizontal Mirror Vertical Mirror Dangler with Heavy Weight Cannon Radia's Laser Launcher
Charge	11 (PC) 3 (GBC)	Electricity	Trouble Tube Twist (PC) Too Many Mirrors (GBC)	Laser Generator Plunger Generator Antigravity Device Catapult with Rock Turbo Tube Charge's Portable Elevator
Cam	10 (PC) 2 (GBC)	Motors	Trouble Sub Rescue (PC) The Water Trap (GBC)	Electric Motor Plunger Motor Belt Box Motorised Generator Motor Laser Cam's Ejector Seat
Flex	7 (PC) 2 (GBC)	Ropes	Rescue Flex! (PC) Snow Jumping (GBC)	Rope Tugger Rope Pull Motor Rope Guide Teeter-totter Flex's Helmet Dangler
Tee Vee	All	Basics	Mission One (PC) Ogel Island (GBC)	N/A

Locations[]

Location	Characters	Missions (PC)	Missions (GBC)
Ogel Island Laboratories	Dash Crunch Radia	Mission One On the Right Path The Hidden Hop The Which-Way Warehouse The Triple Jump High and Low Sliding By The Trouble Tube Crunch Time Boom Room Crisscross Yee-Haw, See-Saws! See-Saw Doublecross Demolition Derby Fill in the Blanks Punch a Bunch of Punchers Tag-Team Crossover Trouble Train Depot	Ogel Island The Right Path The Left Path The Warehouse The Tachyon Trap The Boom Room Blocking The Way Power Down
Goo Caverns	Dash Crunch Radia Charge Cam (PC)	Entrance to the Goo Caverns See-Saw Laser Maze Mirror Madness Mirror Mirror Too Many Mirrors You Know the Drill Barrel Hop Confused Trouble Tube Twist Hectic Electric Pump Room Jump Have See-Saw, Will Travel Double Trouble Turbo Relay Second Step's a Doozy Trouble Sub Rescue	The Goo Caverns The Laser Maze Mirror Madness Mirror Mirror Too Many Mirrors Hectic Electric Double Trouble Tubular Dude
Deep Sea Orb Factory	Dash Radia Charge Cam Flex (PC)	Trouble Sub Docking Bay Cam in Control Double-Duty Charge Ejector Sector Rescue Flex! Tug Team Drop into Danger Computer Hop Dash's Decoy The D.O.O.M. Room	Deep Sea Factory The Aqua Maze Conveyor Belts Production Line The Water Trap Control Room Central Computer Ogel Orb Store
Hidden Arctic Command Base	Dash Crunch Radia Charge Cam Flex	Arctic Dash Crunch Punch Rely on Radia Charge in Charge Cam's Challenge Featuring Flex Mission Control	Ogel Arctic Base Snow Jumping Ice Maze Madness Ice Breaker Ice Block Hop Orb Loading Bay Snow Way Out D.O.O.M Doorway

Versions[]

Set number	Console	Price
5714	Windows PC	US $19.99
5725	Gameboy Color	US $29.99

Development[]

Alpha team letter — A letter sent to the game's developers

Visual effects company and then-consumer software developer Digital Domain pitched the concept for what would become LEGO Alpha Team to LEGO Media in 1998.^[2]^[3] The game was first imagined and remains as a puzzle game where the player builds LEGO contraptions and directs minifigures to solve puzzles.

For the first year and a half of development, the game had a surreal and imaginative theme, with a variety of different characters forming the "Trans-International LEGO Team" (or T.I.L.T.)^[4] and worlds based on objects in a real house (for example, Aromazona, a world of giant flowers, which corresponded to a flower pot in the real world).^[1]

A year and a half into production (six months before release), LEGO Media told the developers to completely overhaul the game and give it a "spy" theming, thinking the original concept didn't fit in with how they marketed themes. The game was quickly revised, and Digital Domain designed entirely new characters, keeping only Tee Vee and Ogel from the earlier ideas.^[1]

Closer to release, the game was briefly named and advertised as "LEGO Action Team" before changing to its final name. These ads also showed box art with slightly earlier versions of the final cast of characters.

Notes[]

This game is known to have a technical problem when played on Windows XP. Each time it's played on XP, the music and voice clips have a glitch where they all loop continuously after a few seconds unless they are muted in the options screen, which is the only way around this glitch since there is no patch for it.
In the Single Missions screen, Cam's Challenge is listed twice.