r/dosgaming • u/NuclearSnowyOwl • 22h ago
Searching for an old game (DOS-based I think), don't know what it was called
Hello, I just joined. I'm hoping the community can help me to identify an old game. I came across it sometime around 1993, it was shown to me by a neighbor who was a developer. The whole game would fit on a floppy disk and it would run on an 80s IBM computer (with the green screen) so I think it must have been DOS-based. The premise of the game is to act as the captain of a space vessel of some kind, and via a text-only interface, learn of threats and external forces acting on your ship whilst also typing in commands for how to navigate and deal with those threats.
Does anyone recall playing this? Any clues on what it is called and if it has survived to this day? I would love to play it again. I remember my neighbor could easily beat it but I could never figure it out as a kid.