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Coffeehound RetroSharka 🏳️‍⚧️

VGA Visions of a terraformed Mars in the 33rd century - and a pair of pursuit fighters on the tail of an Imperial spy.

📺: Frontier: Elite II, David Braben/Gametek/Chris Sawyer (who fixed a LOT of Braben's bugs for the DOS release), 1993

#DOSGaming #Frontier2 #Elite #DOS #Retrogaming #retrocomputing

A textured 256-colour VGA bridge over a grassy flat plain with starport buildings and a factory beneath a blue sky.
A screenie of the game with a pair of texture-mapped polygon Federal Fighters flying by in formation through space
A screenie of the Mars Starport starting point with a terraformed and snow-capped Olympus Mons in the background rising above a starport and a Federal Fighter in third person.
A snap of texture-mapped towerblocks rising to a blue sky.
30 August at 18:47 | Open on oldbytes.space
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Delta Wye

@SharkaBytes I saw Stuart Ashens saying this was a video game with one of the fastest Game Overs ever - you could crash on takeoff and end the game in about one second.

30 August at 19:12 | Open on mstdn.social
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