The Halley Project: A Mission In Our Solar System

Released

1985 on Commodore 64

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Mindscape, Inc.

Developers

Tom Snyder Productions, Inc.

Moby Score: n/a
Players: (4)
Collected By: 3 players

Genre: Educational
Simulation
Perspective: 1st-person
Educational: Science
Setting: Sci-fi / futuristic

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In The Halley Project, the player is a star pilot who is given missions to travel between various objects within the solar system. The player starts out from a base on Halley's Comet and must first make his way to Earth, and then back to the comet. As the missions are completed, the player's rank increases. After completing all missions, a code is provided which could be mailed back to the software publisher, who would send back a letter with instructions to access a secret mission.

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9 People

By	Omar H. Khudari Thomas F. F. Snyder
Programming	Omar H. Khudari M. le Fuge Ed McNierney Peter H. Reynolds Gabrielle Savage
Graphics	Omar H. Khudari M. le Fuge Ed McNierney Peter H. Reynolds Gabrielle Savage
Music	Thomas F. F. Snyder
Illustrations	Peter H. Reynolds
Playtesting	David A. Dockterman
Editorial Development	David A. Dockterman
Project Management	Richard D. Abrams
Commodore 64 Version by	Leonard Bertoni

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Development

The game was published to capitalise on Halley's Comet pass by Earth in 1986 which was generating a lot of public interest in astronomy. Although the game was released in 1985 before the Comet was visible, the publishers did not mail out the code for the final mission until January 1986 which caused some consternation with players who were forced to wait to complete the game.