In the future (2066) a genetic experiment (Project Firestart) onboard the Prometheus to get strong durable miners went wrong. Your job is to go onboard the Prometheus (which has been out of radio contact) and find out what happened. You will end up fighting monsters, gathering information on what really happened, and have a chance to save a survivor.
PuzzleAdventureActionScience fictionHorrorSurvivalalienssurvival horrorisolationCommodore C64/128/MAX
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Character
Earnest, grave, unpretentious and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the game
- Platforms
- Commodore C64/128/MAX
- Developer
- Dynamix
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Released
- August 14, 1989
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Side view
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