Raiders of the Lost Arcade

Dr Bob's blog about modern videogames , retrogaming and Irish gaming in general.

Sunday, February 13, 2005

Digital Crack..


Dammit!!
I've downloaded this a week ago and its had me glued to my PDA ever since.
Spacetrader (thats the PPC version link btw, more below) is a conversion of a years old palmy game, and is pretty much elite with the 3D bits taken out.
Basically dopewars, but for nerds, in space (with a hint of my fav space game starflight), you buy a ship ,buy stuff, fly somewhere else, dodge pirates and sell it a vastly marked up price.Rather be a pirate yourself , and plunder innocent astro-"dell boys"?, no problem.Want to be a drug/gun runner and try and sneak past/bribe the police? ...any way you want it!
...great stuff and bloody habit forming too...


ok , so it doesnt look much graphically, but that wont matter when you 've played it till your eyes bleed...;)


the old palm version is available here and a windows version here