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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Merchant	Title
	Iron Helix
	Iron Helix
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User Reviews

A harbinger of things to come	Maury Markowitz (214)	unrated
A great game in its time. More important for what it foreshadowed than for what it was.	Steelysama (106)
CD Games Begin	Game22 (42)	unrated

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The Press Says

Secret Service / New S Service	Jul, 1994	85 out of 100	85
Svenska Hemdatornytt	May, 1994		83
PC Games (Germany)	Jan, 1994	76 out of 100	76
World Village (Gamer's Zone)	1997		60

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Trivia

Iron Helix had one of the slowest install procedures known to the modern world. It took well over an hour to install the game, for no apparent reason except that the decompression library was not optimized at all. The machine in question was a 486/66 running Windows 3.1 with a double-speed (2X) CDROM drive and 32MB RAM -- well beyond the minimum requirements of the game.

To be fair, the game ran perfectly after it was installed.

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This entry was contributed by Accatone (5228) and Terok Nor (10569)