Lightspeed is a 1990 computer game released by MicroProse. The box describes the title as an "Interstellar Action and Adventure" game. The game features space exploration, trade, combat and diplomacy in the same vein as 4X games (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) such as Master of Orion. Lightspeed, unlike the popular series of turn-based strategy games, plays out in real-time. It also features space simulation and action game elements with ...
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Lightspeed is a 1990 computer game released by MicroProse. The box describes the title as an "Interstellar Action and Adventure" game. The game features space exploration, trade, combat and diplomacy in the same vein as 4X games (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) such as Master of Orion. Lightspeed, unlike the popular series of turn-based strategy games, plays out in real-time. It also features space simulation and action game elements with an emphasis on strategy and exploration.
The game's premise is that the player must help recolonize the human race after the Earth's habitability is critically reduced by an ecological catastrophe. The entire human race is presently housed in huge Conestoga-class colony ships, which are waiting for the player to secure at least one planet with an Earth-like environment and to also acquire enough material resources to ensure that the colony or colonies in question can build a fledgling industrial base as soon as possible. The player's time to...
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