Frederik Pohl's Gateway
DOS - 1992
Description of Frederik Pohl's Gateway
One of the best sci-fi games I've ever played, this game follows Pohl's classic: you play a "prospector" - one of the brave souls who volunteer to pilot alien crafts to unknown destinations, hoping to find valuable artifacts. As with other early Legend releases, the interface is excellent. I can't find fault with this game except that it seems a bit short. The plot is first-rate and puzzles challenging throughout. (the "Virtual Reality"-based puzzles are some of best puzzles ever designed for an adventure game, bar none).
And best of all, Legend released the game as freeware a few years ago to promote Gateway 2: Homeworld. Two thumbs up!
Review By HOTUD
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Comments and reviews
Gooki 2023-11-16 1 point
I remember that fugly interface from childhood, still loved the games to death. Its a mystery rpg played in a mud style fashion, it reads like a living novel, where you are the character within that world. RIP Pohl amazing work!
SteveT 2023-02-21 2 points
You can use Dosbox to run it in Windows. When installed it will create a shortcut on your desktop. Just download the game, extract and then open. You can simply drag the exe or bat file onto the icon and it will run, You may need to run setup first. There is also D-Fend reloaded which is a bit trickier to setup but offers a graphical interface to run you dos games. https://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net
Rod Cloutier 2022-11-01 1 point
Be really nice to own this as a windows 64 bit application.
What would it take to upgrade this to a windows playable game ?
Ensomni 2021-12-08 1 point
I remember this game as a kid still. Never finished it but hunted me all these years. Thanks for find. Be nice if they adapted this for mobile too.
Switchbox 2021-07-21 1 point
Great review. I'm reading the trilogy now. It's incredible. Great deep thick atmosphere within the gateway asteroid, superb, witty, almost funny-satirical language, yet still serious and believable. Because it's a first-person point of view book and the protagonist is humourous, but NOT a comedian. Absolutly recommended. Will download and replay the games. Legend Entertainment have always delivered.
The gateway theory 2015-06-11 0 point DOS version
An excellent adventure game, I still remember several of the puzzles and the major plot points even years later, and as the description says, the virtual reality puzzles were at best hilarious. Music was for the most part good too, fitting the milieu of the locales.
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