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| Obscure 90s AOL shareware space game |
Posted by: dafoomie on 2015-12-31 00:29:48
I can't for the life of me remember the name of this game, I downloaded it on AOL at some point between 95 and 97 on an LC III running System 7. Graphics and sound were pretty nice for shareware in its day, had to have supported at least 256 colors.
The main screen and some aspects are reminiscent of Psi-5 Trading Company for the C64 in that the ship/space area only appeared on the portion of the screen while the rest was used for managing the crew. Unlike Psi-5, you'd fly the ship yourself, top down 2d style like Asteroids or Sinistar. You'd select a crew, who would have a rating listed at their position, and could hire better crew members at various bases. You'd order them to perform certain tasks, the engineer would repair things, the doctor would heal injured crew members, etc. If they were killed, another person could be assigned, but they might be so bad at that skill that they'd make things worse.
From what I remember of the story, an enemy was going around attacking friendly planets and it was your task to stop them. I remember beating the first enemy by getting behind a planet and using my weapons to hit him while his kept hitting the planet, but that's as far as I got.
Any ideas? Or is it way too obscure?
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Posted by: Paralel on 2015-12-31 12:16:22
Any chance it was ever on an AOL disc? I might be able to help you if that's true. I have a friend that collects vintage AOL discs and has a rather large collection.
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Posted by: Floofies on 2015-12-31 14:24:51
Sounds like Starflight!
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Posted by: dafoomie on 2015-12-31 16:40:32
It was very much like Starflight as well, not quite a straight clone but definitely borrowed elements, not nearly as deep though. The graphics were closer to something like Escape Velocity.
Sorry, was not on a disc to my knowledge.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2015-12-31 22:40:40
Ares? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_(video_game)
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Posted by: Daxeria on 2016-01-02 11:23:26
Missions of the Reliant?
http://macintoshgarden.org/games/missions-of-the-reliant
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Posted by: dafoomie on 2016-01-12 20:57:37
Missions of the Reliant?
http://macintoshgarden.org/games/missions-of-the-reliant Just installed it and that's it! Thank you so much.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2016-01-13 08:33:15
http://themonksbrew.com/2010/02/reviving-the-past/
Found the website of the guy that wrote the game. He gives a great writeup about it. 🙂
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Posted by: Paralel on 2016-01-13 09:38:46
Another win for the hive mind!
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Posted by: rezwits on 2016-01-27 01:12:25
I thought you were talking about the all time greatest space game of all. Net-Trek!
Come on? No?
Laters...
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Posted by: dafoomie on 2016-01-30 22:10:32
Net Trek is my all time favorite 68k game and I'd never have any problem remembering the title. We had rooms full of Mac Pluses in high school that were perfect for that.
Though I haven't been able to track down the earlier shareware version we had, only one available seems to be the "final" commercial version.
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Posted by: Daxeria on 2016-02-01 03:53:27
Though I haven't been able to track down the earlier shareware version we had, only one available seems to be the "final" commercial version. The shareware version is now on Macintosh Garden:
http://macintoshgarden.org/games/nettrek
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