"Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near your home on the backwater planet of Gallium.
Images of exotic worlds, strange and colorful aliens and Deep Space heroism had danced in your head as you signed the dotted line. And since that day the closest you've come to Deep Space heroism was scrubbing down the radioactive leper colony on Ishmael-3.
play planet fall
>> another routine day of drudgery aboard the stellar patrol ship feinstein
>> this morning's assignment for a certain lowly ensign seventh class: scrubbing the filthy metal deck at the port end of level nine
>> with your patrol-issue self-contained multi-purpose all-weather scrub-brush you shine the floor with a diligence born of the knowledge that at any moment dreaded ensign first class blather, the bane of your shipboard existence, could appear
>> this is a featureless corridor similar to every other corridor on the ship
>> it curves away to starboard, and a gangway leads up
>> to port is the entrance to one of the ship's primary escape pods
>> the pod bulkhead is closed
>>
>> this is a featureless corridor similar to every other corridor on the ship
>> it curves away to starboard, and a gangway leads up
>> to port is the entrance to one of the ship's primary escape pods
>> the pod bulkhead is closed
>> a high-ranking ambassador from a newly-contacted alien race is standing here on three of his legs, and watching you with seven of his eyes
>> the ambassador recites a plea for co-existence between your races
>>
fight alien
>> the ambassador is startled, and emits an amazing quantity of slime which
>> spreads across the section of the deck you just polished
>> the ambassador remarks that all humans look alike to him
>>
quit
>> your score would be 0 (out of 80 points)
>> it is day 1 of your adventure
>>
>> current galactic standard time (adjusted to your local day-cycle) is 4577
>> this score gives you the rank of beginner
>> do you wish to leave the game? (y is affirmative):
yes
- "play planet fall"
- "save"
- "resume planet fall
- First game created by Steve Meretzky after working as a tester for Infocom.
The source code can be found here. It is not considered to be under an open license.
As far as I know, Activision have still not declared the games abandonware.
But I do not believe that it is in the spirit of copyright law that works of art drift into oblivion by unavailability.
The day the games are republished in their old glory, I will gladly remove the files from this repository. Until then, I hope they will be allowed to remain here so you can have fun playing them in a novel way.
@JarbasAl
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