Planet Miners

Planet Miners
PublisherAvalon Hill
PlatformsTRS-80, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, PET
Release1980: TRS-80
1981: Atari, PET

Planet Miners (sometimes The Planet Miners) is a game published by the Microcomputer Games division of Avalon Hill for the TRS-80 Level II microcomputer in 1980. It was ported to the Atari 8-bit computers, Apple II, and Commodore PET. The game is written in BASIC.

Plot summary

Planet Miners is a game that involves four corporations trying to control the mining rights on the nine planets of Earth's solar system.

Reception

Joseph T. Suchar reviewed Planet Miners in The Space Gamer No. 32. Suchar commented that "Overall I found it tedious. I would not recommend it."

References

  1. ↑ Planet Miners Manual (PDF). Avalon Hill. 1980.
  2. ↑ "Planet Miners". Atari Mania.
  3. 1 2 3 Suchar, Joseph T. (October 1980). "Capsule Reviews". The Space Gamer (32). Steve Jackson Games: 28.