Earthrise

DOS - 1990

Alt name	Earthrise: A Guild Investigation
Year	1990
Platform	DOS
Released in	United States
Genre	Adventure
Theme	Sci-Fi / Futuristic
Publisher	Interstel Corporation
Perspective	3rd-Person
Dosbox support	Fully supported on 0.65

4.57 / 5 - 7 votes

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Description of Earthrise

In Matt Gruson's first adventure game, you play an astronaut / scientist who is rudely awaken from cryo sleep by the ship's alarm. Explore a deserted space station overtaken by weird aliens and avert an asteroid's crash collision with the earth.

Overall, a great adventure game reminiscent of Sierra's AGI classics (Police Quest 1, etc.) The game is fairly long and has a tough time constaint (the station will blow up if left alone), but the puzzles are logical and fun. Two thumbs up!

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Comments and reviews

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larry 2025-01-22 0 point

@MATT G Thanks for all your efforts. You and the game designers/coders of 80s/90s created ingenious solutions to cope with the limitations of the home computers. Imagination was the key point for both designers and players.

"when you didn't need a team of 50 people and $2M to make computer game". This sentence explains so much. That was the real innovation. Even "true art"...

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Cedric 2024-03-13 0 point

The manual for this game is now finally online. https://archive.org/details/earthrise-1990-interstel-corporation-manual

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JB 2019-10-01 2 points

It's really enjoyable to play, too!

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Matt G 2016-01-23 24 points

Really enjoyed authoring this game, back when you didn't need a team of 50 people and $2M to make computer game. Assembly language to create the graphics and sound -- you had to know how to talk to the chips back then. Programming down to the metal is a lost art.

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