
In this regard, in their noble society, prerequisites for a civil war are brewing.


Maybe if we released Star Control 2 for the PlayStation with some other games on the same CD, then we could put out a CLASSICS CD.Melnorme - a race of merchants, reminiscent of sea stars, chairs or rolls. Why do we want to spend our time making one of our REALLY OLD games into a freeware version when we could be spending our time and resources on making a new game that could earn us BIG MONEY and that everyone could play? Did you know there is 1 PlayStation in every 5 houses? How many people out there want to run an old 386 game on their new Pentium systems? And how many of those people have the knowledge of DOS to get the game running? So you can see that we want to concentrate our time and resources that are going to make our company the most money we can get for our work. And the numbers have shown that there are not a lot of people out there that want an old game like that. Though Star Control fans REALLY like the game, the rest of the population has already voted on how we should sell this game by purchasing it or not. If you look at the number of people that would really want an old 386x game to run on their new systems that number would be very low. It would be a headache for someone Im sure and no one here would want to work on a freeware version of a game that no-one really wants.
STAR CONTROL 2 SYREEN FOR FREE
In order to do that we would have to create a version that we could give away for free (removing all password stuff) and then putting it on our web site (which we would have to create a page for and that takes time and resources). A person at Accolade responded:įreeware? You mean we should give our games away for free? It is called CAPITALISM and what that means is that we charge people MONEY for things that we create.īut honestly.At this point in the games life it is not even worth our time to give it away for free.

From that page was this choice FAQ.Ī rabid fan of the game asked someone at Accolade why this grand old game couldn't be released as freeware. Just a minor correction to tonto's writeup: Star Control was originally written for the PC, released in July 1990, and then ported to the Sega Genesis.Īlso, the best fan website is The Pages of Now & Forever at.
STAR CONTROL 2 SYREEN FULL
I wouldn't reckon it's still being made, but it's well worth getting the ROM.īest use: lose hours to huge two player full game battles.įrom the advice of Pseudo_Intellectual, I have noded info on the Alliance and That you can employ when circumstances dictate.
STAR CONTROL 2 SYREEN PLUS
Has its own manoeuvring and firing characteristics, plus a unique special power The AllianceĪnd Hierarchy each possess seven different types of warships. Stars against those of the predatory Ur-Quan Hierarchy. It's a sci-fi wargame which pits the forces of The Alliance of Free Originally released for the Mega Drive ( Sega Genesis) in 1991, it has Star Control was (and still is) possibly the best strategy game created.
