A rogue navy ship named Obrian poses a grave threat to humanity. A virus has wiped out its crew, but the threat of it using its Iron Helix doomsday weapon is still there. Using a robotic droid, you must explore the ship to work out how to shut these down.

The game uses interactive quarter-screen footage to display the ship's layout. From an action perspective, the main unusual challenge is that an automated security device is chasing you down, and must be avoided and ultimately destroyed.

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 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 (203)	unrated
A great game in its time. More important for what it foreshadowed than for what it was.	Steelysama (91)
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
Gamer's Zone	1997		60

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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 (5238) and Terok Nor (9518)