| Electronic Fun · September, 1983 | Rating: 4 / 4 |
Somewhere near the asteroid Ceres, Infocom's first all-text science fiction adventure makes the jump to hyperspace: computer game becomes computer fiction. Somewhat easier to solve than Zork, not as technically innovative as Deadline, Starcross still presents enough puzzle-solving challenge to keep the practiced adventurer intrigued, but its greatest strength is its wellstructured novelistic... [more]
| The Book of Atari Software · 1984 | Rating: A |
Starcross is a science fiction, all-text adventure game that continues to offer the quality and enjoyable features expected of Infocom, including the excellent Save-game capability, command parsing, and vocabulary. It's long ago and far away, when suddenly the strident alarm of your one-man spaceship advises you of an uncharted mass in space. Naturally curious, you rendezvous, map the eighty or... [more]