Unknown Planet

Amstrad User, The, Strategy Publications 1990

Language:: English
Authors:: Barrie M. Eaton , Mark C. Eaton
Platforms:: Amstrad CPC
Genres:: Science fiction, Type-in
Entered by:: dave, Garry, Gunness
Added:: 10-05-2010
Edited:: 24-01-2019

Synopsis

Plot

While you were orbiting a planet in some unexplored part of the universe, a tiny meteorite punctured your fuel tanks causing you to lose fuel and hence make an emergency landing. When you check the fuel tanks, you find a hole the size of a small fist in the main tank and a fracture in the secondary tank. You can't repair the damage, as you don't have the right equipment and your fuel supply is almost gone.

Your computer has no data on the planet, but your instruments tell you that it has a breathable atmosphere. Your food situation is stable, but your water supply is very low.

You must therefore explore outside your spaceship or eventually die. You might die anyway, but you have to take that chance and try to locate some fuel, water and something with which to repair the fuel tanks.

So, after picking up your laser gun, you leave your ship and look around outside. It's a bleak looking place...

Notes

This adventure was written in 1987 but apparently not published until 1990, in The Amstrad User, issue 60, January 1990, pp. 18-19; issue 61, February 1990, pp. 48-51; issue 62, March 1990, pp. 50-51.

Supposedly the game was later converted into QBasic, but this version has not been found.