Operation Neptune cover art

Operation Neptune

Operation Neptune is an educational computer game produced in 1991 by The Learning Company. The goal of the game is to guide a small submarine through a variety of undersea caverns, collecting pieces of a…

1 January 1991

Operation Neptune is an arcade, released 1 January 1991 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified Sources: IGDB

What Operation Neptune is

Operation Neptune was released in 1991. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The back story of the game is as follows: A team of astronauts and scientists have begun a secret research project on a distant planet. The research team's results were sent back to Earth on the "Galaxy space capsule", which malfunctioned, crashed into the ocean, and broke into many pieces. The capsule included several data canisters, each of which contains small snippets of the scientists' story, which is revealed to the player as the game progresses and data canisters are found. The capsule also contained some toxic chemicals, which have begun to leak out and threaten the health of the world's sea life. A recovery mission, codenamed Operation Neptune, is sent to recover the pieces of the…
Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Operation Neptune launched on 1 January 1991, within three weeks of Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound and Colorado.

Released around the same time: Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound, Colorado.

Official trailer

Gameplay video thumbnail

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

All media

Quick answers

Operation Neptune — frequently asked questions

When did Operation Neptune come out?
Operation Neptune was released on 1 January 1991 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

If you like this

Games like Operation Neptune

See all