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StarForce is a board game for 1–3 players using a map with 74 star systems in a sphere 40 light years in diameter, with Earth at the center. [1] Ships are moved from place to place through telekinetic powers. If opposing ships end up in the same space, combat results. The game has two sets of rules for Basic and Advanced games.
Some elements of the game are similar to that of Star Fleet Battles, which was also created by Task Force Games in 1979, including the impulse based movement system and a ship sheet with shields, armor and weapons that are destroyed in a specific order. Starfire is a much faster-player game designed for far bigger fleet combats, not including ...
Dark Nebula is a strategic game about space combat which is based on the previously published Imperium board game. [1] Dark Nebula was part of a series produced by GDW called "Series 120" — games with 120 pieces that were designed to be learned and played in 120 minutes. [2] The names of the opposing forces, the Solomani Confederation and the ...
The story revolves around an ongoing war between humans and an intergalactic organization named the Master Force. [1] After the Master Force destroy the fictional planet Marinarc, the base of operations of the resistance, a prototype starfighter called the Fighting Ray is deployed in hopes of destroying the Master Force once and for all.
Landing to collect minerals is a typical activity in the game but not all planets are equally hospitable. The player begins the game in a space station called Starport Outpost 1 with a meager allotment of funds for outfitting a spaceship and training crew members in the skills needed to operate it. Crew members are chosen from one of five races ...
Star Force was ported and published in 1985 by Hudson Soft to both the MSX home computer and the Family Computer (Famicom) in Japan. [2] Sales of the game were promoted through the first nationwide video game competition to be called "a caravan", although it was not the first event of its kind organized by Hudson (they had previously promoted Lode Runner with a similar event).
Akin to all games on the Virtual Boy, it uses a red and black color palette for its graphics. Vertical Force is a vertical-scrolling shooter video game. The player controls a starship, the Ragnarok, and must destroy the malfunctioning supercomputer on the human colony planet Odin before it destroys Earth. [1]
The game is set in the year 2094, following the events in the previous Task Force Games wargame Asteroid Zero-Four. [1] The Russian and American forces who had fought each other for control of the asteroid belt in the previous game now discover a warp point that allows them to jump to Proxima Centauri and invade an alien planet. [2]