Star Command (1988 video game)
Introduction '''''Star Command''''' is a video game released by Strategic Simulations in 1988.
Plot ''Star Command'' is a game in which the player creates a crew of eight characters that complete missions from Star Command to earn credits and training for personnel. The crew can explore planets to obtain valuables, and can board disabled enemy ships to fight their crews and commandeer their ship.
Reception The game was reviewed in 1988 in ''Dragon'' #138 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4 1/2 out of 5 stars. Jim Trunzo reviewed ''Star Command'' for ''White Wolf'' #14, rating it 5 overall, and stated that "This review has only touched upon the major facets of "Star Command". Many other subtleties make this product an enjoyable and challenging simulation. The graphics are well-done and functional and the mechanics of play are simple in spite of the game's sophistication. "Orson Scott Card was less favorable, writing in ''Compute!'' that ''Star Command'' "wants to be ''Starflight'' or ''Sentinel Worlds'', but it isn't". He said that the "primitive graphics" were adequate, but "the problem is that there's no sense of ''experiencing'' anything. Mostly you're told about what's going on, and after a short time it seemed to me that it was a text game which consisted of" mechanical fetch quests. In a 1992 survey of science fiction games, ''Computer Gaming World'' gave the title two-plus stars of five, and a 1994 survey of strategic space games set in the year 2000 and later gave the game two stars.
Reviews *''Shadis'' #1 (Jan., 1990)*''Commodore User'' - Nov, 1989*''ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)'' - Dec, 1989*''Jeux & Stratégie'' #54
References
External links ** Review in Family Computing