Deep Space Drifter
A text adventure game in which you play a deep space explorer, stranded on an abandoned space station, a victim of your own poor planning.
31 December 1990
Deep Space Drifter is an adventure, released 31 December 1990 on DOS.
What Deep Space Drifter is
Deep Space Drifter was released in 1990. It was published by High Energy Software. It is available on DOS only. It runs on Text Adventure Development System (TADS).
The premise, in the publisher's words
It was a more exciting time, back in the early years of deep space exploration. Anyone who could afford a good ship and a tank full of fuel could strike out into the vast empty reaches to find his fortune among the stars. Of course, you'd have a better chance of finding your fortune if you had remembered to check a nav chart before heading off into the void. Now you're nearly out of fuel and air, you're tired and hungry -- and desperately hoping you can find someone monitoring the distress channels.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Deep Space Drifter launched on 31 December 1990, within three weeks of Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound and Colorado.
Released around the same time: Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound, Colorado.
Quick answers
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When did Deep Space Drifter come out?
Deep Space Drifter was released on 31 December 1990 for DOS.
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