Echelon
Echelon is a space combat simulator with wire-frame graphics. Fly around an alien planet, looking for clues to a "mysterious event" in the planet's past. The game is known for using "RealSound" a patented…
Echelon is a puzzle developed by Access Software, released 31 December 1987 on Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
What Echelon is
Echelon is a puzzle game developed by Access Software and released in 1987. It is available on Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Echelon is a space combat simulator with wire-frame graphics. Fly around an alien planet, looking for clues to a "mysterious event" in the planet's past. The game is known for using "RealSound" a patented technology to output high quality sounds through standard PC speakers.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Echelon launched on 31 December 1987, within three weeks of Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus and Head Over Heels.
Released around the same time: Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus, Head Over Heels.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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