Transporting the intense corporate rivalries of industrial capitalism into the asteroid belts of the 21st century, designer W. B. Victor and The Avalon Hill Game Company released Planet Miners in 1980 for the TRS-80, Apple II, and Commodore PET, allowing one to four players to command competing space corporations, dispatching robotic mining vessels to stake claims on resource-rich asteroids (Ceres, Vesta, Pallas), extracting precious mineral ores, engaging in corporate espionage, and bribing the World Court to legitimize claim-jumping operations.
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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
External links
Planet Miners can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive
