Mars Saga
Mars Saga is a role-playing video game developed by Westwood Associates and published by Electronic Arts for the Commodore Commodore 64 in 1988. Following a legal battle against Electronic Arts for rights on…
Mars Saga is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Westwood Associates, released 31 December 1988 on Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
What Mars Saga is
Mars Saga is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Westwood Associates and released in 1988. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player takes the role of Tom Jetland, a down-on-his-luck space traveller trapped on Mars after crashing his ship. While searching for jobs to make enough money to get back off the planet, he discovers a conspiracy hiding contact with what seems to be alien life. The player visits the four Martian cities of Primus, Progeny, Parallax, and Proscenium, as well as traversing the Martian surface and visiting abandoned mines. The combat system features a bird's eye view of the battlefield. The player queues instructions for the characters of his or her party to perform in real time.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Mars Saga launched on 31 December 1988, within three weeks of Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad and Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine.
Released around the same time: Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad, Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine.
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