Universe
A highly comprehensive and complex space exploration game. You can chose between several career paths like trading, passenger transport, ore mining, smuggling, cargo transport and piracy. Depending on your…
Universe is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Omnitrend Software, Inc., released 31 December 1983 on Apple II, Atari 8-bit and DOS.
What Universe is
Universe is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Omnitrend Software, Inc. and released in 1983. It is available on Apple II, Atari 8-bit and DOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
During the latter part of the First Stellar Expansion, it became evident that the technology from planets in the Home Cluster could not support the ever expanding colonization effort. The hyperdrive had opened an era of fast, economical travel between the stars. Journeys that used to consume decades could be made in a matter of days. However, the hyperdrive was not without its problems. Its unrefueled maximum range was a major limitation. After 3 or 4 hyperjumps, the ship would be completely out of the inhabited regions, with nowhere to refuel. Its fuel capacity was also part of the second limitation: the so-called "Mass Limit." Stated simply, the mass limit sets a severe limit on the…
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are business and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Universe launched on 31 December 1983, within three weeks of The Witness, Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac and Zoo Keeper.
Released around the same time: The Witness, Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, Zoo Keeper.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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