Frederick Pohl's Gateway (PC, 1.2MB 5 1/4" Disk) Legend Entertainment - 1992 USA, Canada Release
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Frederick Pohl's Gateway | |
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| Title | Frederick Pohl's Gateway |
| Product ID | 36846-00042 |
| Product UPC | 736846000422 |
| Platform(s) | |
| Packaging | Retail Box |
| Media | 1.2MB 5.25 Disk |
| Copyright date(s) | 1992 |
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Description from the packaging.
Get rich quick or die!
The gamble is the same for every gateway prospector. You strap yourself into an alien starship whose destination was programmed 500,000 years ago by a race called the Heechee. You may return with a motherlode of technology that will make you rich. More likely, you will die.
But when scientists discover the terrible secret behind the vanished Heechee civilization, you enter a desperate battle against an ancient race so ruthless and deadly that they are known simply as The Assassins.
- Explore exotic new worlds.
- Learn the ropes on Gateway Station, a 22nd century frontier city.
- Interact with alien races.
- Search deep space for traces of ancient Heechee civilization.
- Stunning cinematic animated effects, 256-color VGA graphics.
- Unique screen design featuring Legend's Next Generation Game System.
- Superb original Roland and AdLib musical score synchronized with your game play.
- Digitized sound effects.
- New screen formats: pilot an interstellar scout ship, talk with characters, and operate high tech equipment.
- The final confrontation! Battle the enemy in a cyberspace virtual reality drawn from the nightmares of your own subconscious.
"Vastly superior graphics..." - Strategy Plus.
System Requirements
PC MS-DOS 3.3 | |
| Required CPU | AT 286 |
| Required RAM | 640K |
| Supports Mouse | Yes |
| Supported Audio | Yes |
| Supported Video | CGA EGA VGA 256 Color MCGA Tandy 16 Color |
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