''Star Cruiser'' is a 1980 video game by Strategems Co. for the

TRS-80 The TRS-80 Micro Computer System (TRS-80, later renamed the Model I to distinguish it from successors) is a desktop microcomputer developed by American company Tandy Corporation and sold through their Radio Shack stores. Launched in 1977, it is ...

Model I Level II.

Plot summary

''Star Cruiser'' is a game where two hostile solar systems must either try to force 25 other planets become their allies, or destroy all six starships of their enemy.

Reception

J. Mishcon reviewed ''Star Cruiser'' in ''

The Space Gamer ''The Space Gamer'' was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy board games and tabletop role-playing games. It quickly grew in importance and was an important and influential magazine in its subject matter from the la ...

'' No. 30. Mishcon commented that "A nice try, but the execution is so poor that it will bring to mind all the rip-of wargames moldering in your closet. Why not wait till someone does this properly?"

References

{{reflist 1980 video games TRS-80 games TRS-80-only games Video games developed in the United States