I replay this every 5 to 10 years with a second computer open to record tips, missions, bank transactions, and mission reports. It is the perfect mix of storytelling with end user imagination. No universe is larger than this one and this was on 2 360K floppy diskettes! This game is an incredible piece of programming. Games these days are suffering the same problem as movies, more emphasis on graphics/effects than on storytelling or the size of the sandbox. Not so in this one. Explore how you want, where you want and make relations with races however you want. Combat is basic because it was 1986. When I first bought this game in 1989, there was a VGA/MCGA option that is not on this version of the game. I actually believe this also affected the fractals of the game allowing for more ruins and mineral deposits in that version. This game was also full of family memory for me, as middle school aged me would call up my grandfather and we would exchange tips on where we found artifacts. This was the game where I lost hundreds of hours of my childhood. Nothing but good memories! 5 star all the way.
