Description of Reach for the Stars: The Conquest of the Galaxy
Reach for the Stars: The Conquest of the Galaxy (aka リーチ・フォー・ザ・スターズ), a really nice strategy game sold in 1983 for Commodore 64, is available and ready to be played again! Also available on Apple II, time to play a managerial, sci-fi / futuristic, turn-based and 4x video game title.
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Charax 2024-02-26 0 point
Found the second edition game manual here: https://archive.org/details/adoc_reach_for_the_stars/mode/2up
Not sure what the differences are versus the first edition (could not find first edition manual)
How-to-play-video and-HINTS 2019-05-10 5 points DOS version
Watch this video by SquakeNet - he must've been SOOOOO frustrated, because he didn't figure out the keys before he started playing. Silly boy. :P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXu51pO7djw
This is an example of how NOT to make a game-play video.
If he recorded voice audio as a separate track, he was lucky -- at least when he threw that out the window for all the swearing, he still had all the game beeps to indicate to us that the game didn't like him very much. ;)
Try playing online before downloading. Alt site for this, PC/DOS version:
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Reach_for_the_Stars_-_The_Conquest_of_the_Galaxy_1986
Hint: the Minus ("-") key helps cycle between open windows.
Hint: the Delete ("./Del") key helps CLOSE the active/highlighted window.
Hint: ESC is your Friend, but only to get you to the "menu bar" (bottom of screen)
Hint: Arrow keys, but not always...
Hint: Destinations are auto-complete, so start typing!
Hint: Don't want all 4 scouts going to one place? Type a smaller number. ;)
Jeff Mullen 2018-06-03 1 point
I wish I could find someone who would allow me to port this old-timer to windows. I can remember playing it long ago, and think it would still have some value. I can't clone it because I could never reproduce that AI.
Zoot 2017-03-18 1 point
I played this game on my mom's 286 back in the day. I loved the game, and I've been playing it ever since. Still have the original box, floppy, and manual. It's definitely stood the test of time, no doubt.
My three favorite games of all time were RFTS, VGA Planets, and Stars! Still playing all 3 today, although Stars! players are hard to find any more.
aureliussr 2016-08-26 1 point DOS version
@B_P, you can use '-' and '=' keys to cycle through the various contexts and then use the "Esc" key to access the menu bar for the particular context you are in.
B_P 2016-06-07 -1 point DOS version
Running this for the first time on mac and have no mouse pointer. I'm ok using keys, but does anyone have a list of shortcuts as I have problems switching between the menus
Tananda 2015-04-30 0 point DOS version
RFTS was a great game, AI is poor but this is meant to be played with friends.
Dan2000 2015-04-11 0 point DOS version
Having played this on shareware with an old friend back in the late 80's, I found this game to be too much fun. I did, however find a flaw, aka cheat for the game. Since I haven't played in decades, all I remember was there was a way to make a purchase, and sell the ship, keeping the money and cloning it...to the point of massive amounts of credits, to buy and build an armada. The one time I used it to it's complete potential, I had 3 armadas of ships, surrounding 3 different planets. The first was smaller, and realistic, maybe about 25 ships...so when it was found, there was no suspect. But then, when my friend found the other 2 with hundreds of ships...he used many four letter words to describe the situation. LOL..IT WAS FUNNY but all in all the cheat was not usedagain, to make the game palyable and fair
DanTheTerrible 2014-11-26 1 point DOS version
Reach for the Stars is essentially a computerized version of MetaGaming's boardgame Stellar Conquest (1974). Many of the game's concepts were included in Microprose's Master of Orion 1 (1993). Master of Orion 2 (1996) was more of a departure in that it included elements from the Microprose Civilisation series. Master of Orion 3 was a completely different game, and universally considered poor. Most afficiOnados of turn based galactic conquest games consider Master of Orion 2 to be the best of its time, and it still holds up today (18 years after publication).
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Commodore 64 Version
69 KBApple II Version
- Year: 1983
- Publisher: Strategic Studies Group Pty Ltd.
- Developer: Strategic Studies Group Pty Ltd.
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