Callisto

Overview

A text based strategy game created by Russell Wallace and released as shareware in 1988, inspired by a game called Ganymede back on the 3. 5K Vic-20 but obviously a huge improvement on that game. In the game, you are in charge of a mining base on Jupiter's Moon, Callisto. The moon itself contains nothing more valuable than nice and dirt, but valuable minerals can be obtained from the atmosphere of Jupiter itself by robot mining stations (human workers could not survive the conditions there). Your job is to collect the ore produced and bring it to the moon using short-range nuclear drive spacecraft. From there it can be collected by long-range ion drive ships for your employers, the Interplanetary Mining Corporation. You will be paid for the ore and must use this money to buy various equipment and plutonium fuel to run it. WARNING - if you run out of fuel, your food/oxygen recycling machinery will not be able to function and everyone on the base will die. Sounds simple enough, but there are other difficulties several competing companies have also set up mining bases in the vicinity of Jupiter. Far beyond the jurisdiction of the Earth police, anything goes and while the robot mines themselves are concealed in t the depths of Jupiter's atmosphere your base is vulnerable to attack. Computer-controlled laser batteries can be purchased for defense. Also, spacecraft can be equipped with combat computers, shielding and nuclear cannon so that they can be used for attacking enemy bases as we as setting up mines and retrieving ore. You will be paid for damage done. Each ship can carry 2 nuclear warheads on a mission.

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