Genre: Science Fiction, Strategy
Timeframe: early 1990s
Platform: PC
Description: You?re a general or commander or mayor or something. You?ve got various aspects of the game to manage: A Space Fleet, Planet?s Surface, Building new ships. I don?t remember if it was turn based or continuous, but it wasn?t a RTS, and it wasn?t 3rd or 1st person.
The biggest thing I remember about the game is this: There?s a screen where you?re looking down at the planet?s surface, like satellite view, and you can tell them mine different places, which you designated with circles, which got deeper as turns or time went on. It was organized by grids, I think coordinates, because when I started a new game, I could always go back to the same spot and find the same things. I think some locations yielded better than others. But then you could like find things, like if you mine in one spot, you locate an old buried starship. When you mine deep enough, you uncover it, you can add it to your space fleet. I remember doing this every game because that ship was worth so much resources to have equivalent strength in my fleet. To that effect, I think throughout the game you?re trying to build up your fleet with ships to have a strong force, and you use the resources to do that.
The only thing I remember building up my fleet for was to prevent myself from losing the game, which seemed to always happen at a certain spot. When I lost, it was a cutscene of a bunch of futuristic soldiers (don?t remember if alien or not) surrounding your fortress and busting in. Then it basically said you lose, game over. I think that an invading force beat you, and you get taken over as the commander or whatever. I could never get past that part.
Been googling for about an hour, and looking through scifi computer game lists, and I can?t seem to find anything, so I appreciate your help!
Random point if it helps anything: I?m pretty sure I remember my dad buying it from Radio Shack (back when they were a cool place to get PC games). I was between the ages of 6 to 9 years old. It wasn't a kids game tho, my dad played it too.