
| Accolade published Star control in the year 1990. It's a very good science fiction strategy game, part of the Star control series. Star control runs on DOS and can be played by 2 players. | ||
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| system: | DOS | |
| released: | 1990 | |
| publisher: | Accolade | |
| developer: | Toys for Bob | |
| designers: | Paul Reiche III, Fred Ford, Greg Johnson, Robert Leyland | |
| genre: | strategy : other strategy games | |
| view: | 3rd person, top down | |
| keywords: | science fiction, space exploration | |
| series: | Star control | |
| multiplayer: | same screen (split or single) (1-2 players) | |
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| graphics: | CGA, EGA, Tandy, VGA, MCGA | |
| sound: | Adlib, Sound Blaster, PC speaker, Tandy, Roland | |
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The game featured the basic Spacewar!-style combat engine and wraparound screen, Mêlée (as it was called due to the close combat involved), as well as a strategic game engine with a three-dimensional cluster of stars as the terrain.