StarQuest: Rescue at Rigel

There are humans being held captive by the Tollah, inside of a mining asteroid orbiting Rigel. Sudden Smith has teleported in to find as many as possible before within a 1 hour time-limit. Once found, the prisoner can be beamed back onto Smith's ship.

The game seems to have some minor historic significance for referencing the Iran Hostage Crisis which was current news at the time of its initial development. In addition to the plot, one of the enemies is named High Tollah which is phonetically similar to Ayatollah

This game came in two different publishings. One was a bootable disk. It was written and distributed in BASIC and thus the non-bootable version required BASIC to be booted or installed on the computer that ran it.

Requirments
8088 or 8086 CPU
CGA
64kb RAM
5.25" Floppy drive
PC Speaker
Keyboard
DOS 1.0 to 2.11 (not required for bootlooader version)
BASIC (not required for bootlooader version)

(Zerothis) - # 2009-07-07 09:16:02

software: DOS 1.x,

hardware: 8086 CPU, 8088 CPU, PC speaker SPU,

display: raster

© Epyx 1983-03-20

However, copyright is not the publishing date, so this isn't used for that.

Sanguine # 2009-07-06 12:06:36

version of
StarQuest: Rescue at Rigel (Apple II E)
StarQuest: Rescue at Rigel (VIC-20)
StarQuest: Rescue at Rigel (TRS-80)
StarQuest: Rescue at Rigel (Atari 400/800)