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Tau Ceti (1985)

Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, ZX Spectrum

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Humanity has spread out and colonised nearby star systems but a plague in 2150 led to the colonies being abandoned and left to their automated robotic maintenance systems. While several of these colonies have been successfully re-inhabited, the colony on the planet Tau Ceti III (orbiting the star Tau Ceti) has been uncontactable since a meteor smashed into the planet. … Humanity has spread out and colonised nearby star systems but a plague in 2150 led to the colonies being abandoned and left to their automated robotic maintenance systems. While several of these colonies have been successfully re-inhabited, the colony on the planet Tau Ceti III (orbiting the star Tau Ceti) has been uncontactable since a meteor smashed into the planet. A mission sent to Tau Ceti III in 2164 landed on the planet but broadcast a mayday message followed by silence. Experts decided that the planet's robots were running amok as a result of the meteorite impact. The only chance, it was decided, of successfully stopping the defence systems without destroying the cities already there is to send a single pilot in an armoured Gal-Corp skimmer to the planet's surface with the task of shutting-down the central reactor in Tau Ceti III's capital, Centralis. Read more

Details

Publishers
CRL Group PLC, Thunder Mountain
Genres
Shooter, Simulator
Themes
Action, Science fiction
Series
Tau Ceti
Also known as
Alpha Centauri · Tau-Ceti: The Lost Star Colony · Tau Ceti: The Lost Star Colony

Release dates

  • 1985 (Europe) ZX Spectrum
  • Feb 11, 1986 (Europe) Commodore C64/128/MAX
  • May 08, 1986 (Europe) Amstrad CPC
  • 1986 (North America) Atari ST/STE
  • 1987 (Europe) Amstrad PCW
  • 1987 (North America) DOS