While on a sightseeing tour on the Starship Essex you are recruited by a dying agent to find a scientist and his formula - the only things that can prevent the evil alien race of the Vollchons of defeating the Federation.
AdventureScience fictioninteractive fictionAtari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Atari ST/STE, DOS, Apple II
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Character
Earnest, unpretentious, grave and plot-driven.
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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About the game
- Platforms
- Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Atari ST/STE, DOS, Apple II
- Developer
- Synapse Software Corporation
- Publisher
- Brøderbund Software
- Released
- September 1, 1985
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Text
- Engine
- BTZ
- Time to beat
- 6 h main story
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Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
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