A rogue navy ship, Jeremiah Obrian, threatens to start a war. A virus has wiped out its crew, but the threat of it firing its Iron Helix doomsday weapon is still there. You must remotely pilot an unarmed science robot to explore the ship and work out how to shut the weapon down.

The game uses interactive quarter-screen footage to display the ship's interiors. The main challenge is that an automated security device is chasing you down, and must be avoided and ultimately destroyed. A delay between your commands and the robot's receipt of them forces you to pay close attention to the security drone and plan several steps ahead.

As you explore the ship, you will find data ports, which can be jacked into to gain information or to open doorways. To access most of these, you will need to find and collect a DNA sample from a member of staff whose role gave him/her access.

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Alternate Titles

"Iron Helix: A deadly war game gone awry..." -- SEGA CD tag-lined title

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Iron Helix	SEGA CD	$1.55
	Iron Helix	Windows 3.x
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User Reviews

Great idea, but zero replay value	Macintosh	Maury Markowitz (222)
A harbinger of things to come	Windows 3.x	Maury Markowitz (222)
A great game in its time. More important for what it foreshadowed than for what it was.	Windows 3.x	Steelysama (106)
CD Games Begin	Windows 3.x	Game22 (42)

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The Press Says

Secret Service / New S Service	Windows 3.x	Jul, 1994	85 out of 100	85
Svenska Hemdatornytt	Windows 3.x	May, 1994		83
Power Play	Macintosh	Aug, 1993	83 out of 100	83
Freak	SEGA CD	Mar, 1995	80 out of 100	80
PC Games (Germany)	Windows 3.x	Jan, 1994	76 out of 100	76
Just Games Retro	SEGA CD	Jan 11, 2003	71 out of 100	71
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Macintosh	May, 1994		70
World Village (Gamer's Zone)	Windows 3.x	1997		60
Game Players	SEGA CD	Feb, 1995	48 out of 100	48
High Score	Macintosh	Feb, 1994	2 out of 5	40

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Trivia

The song played at the game's main menu (samples of which are also heard in various other parts of the game) is a real song. It's appropriately called "Iron Helix", performed by a band called Xorcist. The relationship between the game and the song is symbiotic: The game uses the song in its soundtrack, and the song uses some sound samples from the game.

Xorcist went on to contribute music to two other CD-ROM games: Bad Mojo and Space Bunnies Must Die.

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This entry was contributed by Accatone (5198) and Terok Nor (16793)