Planetfall
Planetfall is a science fiction interactive fiction computer game written by Steve Meretzky, and the eighth title published by Infocom in 1983. Like most Infocom games, thanks to the portable Z-machine, it was…
Planetfall is an adventure developed by Infocom, released 8 July 1983 on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW and Apple II. The main story takes about 12 hrs to finish.
What Planetfall is
Planetfall is an adventure game developed by Infocom and released in 1983. It is available on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST/STE, Commodore 16, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore Plus/4, DOS, Mac, PC-9800 Series, Tatung Einstein, TRS-80 and TRS-80 Color Computer. It runs on Z-machine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
After the fall of the Second Galactic Union in 1716 GY, a ten-thousand-year dark age settled upon the galaxy. nterstellar travel was non-existent, and many star systems descended into a near-barbaric state, burning coal and as for energy, and growing food directly from the exposed topsoil. In 11,203 GY, a treaty between the Empires of Tremain and Gallium formed the Third Galactic Union. Ships of the tellar Patrol (a pseudo-military wing of the Union government on Tremain) began exploring the galaxy, searching for he human civilizations that are the remnants of the Second Union. You are a native of the planet Gallium. Although it is one of the most politically powerful worlds in the Union…
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 12 hrs.
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