Game Classification

Reach for the Stars SSG, SSG, 1983  

Informations Analyses Serious Gaming
 

Classification

VIDEO GAME

Keywords

Futuristic - Managerial - Strategy - Turn-based strategy

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick DESTROY : explanation of this brick MANAGE : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick
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Reach for the Stars Reach for the Stars is the earliest known commercially published example of the 4X games (Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate) genre. It was written by Roger Keating and Ian Trout of SSG of Australia and published in 1983 for the Commodore 64 and then the Apple II in 1985. Version 3 added a DOS port for the IBM PC, although the DOS port did not share all of the features that the other platforms had. The game was eventually ported to pre-Mac OS X versions of the Macintosh operating system, such as System 6. It was also ported to the Amiga, though which version was ported is not known. [source:wikipedia]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Apple II - Commodore 64 - Amiga - PC (Dos)

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