Can you identify this educational 1980's computer game?
June 7, 2015 7:13 AM   Subscribe

When I was a child, in the mid 80's our school had this game on the BBC micro. It was a mainly text based game about being a space explorer.

The teacher turned the game into a creative writing assignment, we had to play a bit and then write about what happened. This meant that we didn't have very much time to actually play the game. (Because all the class had to have a go)
The game was, I think, almost entirely text based, there may have been a star map. You played as space explorer(s) and had to go to various planets. If you went to them in the wrong order(?) then you got horribly killed. I remember at one point my character being eaten by a corrosive plant.
What was this game? Is it available anywhere to download or play online?
posted by Just this guy, y'know to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)
 
I'm an American, so I've never even seen BBC Micro (I saw the headline and thought it might be about Apple II games of my youth).

Still, I started perusing this BBC Micro Games site and thought maybe it could be Starship Command or Elite by AcornSoft? They look...spacey!
posted by Fortran at 7:30 AM on June 7, 2015


The Classic Adventures Solution Archive holds a very big list of BBC Micro text adventure games - maybe browsing it will jog your memory?
posted by along came the crocodile at 9:39 AM on June 7, 2015


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