Colony

aka: Kolonie
Moby ID: 19174
Commodore 64 Specs
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Mankind has established a distant colony, but the area is infested with ants, ladybirds and other parasites, all ready to cut through the perimeter fencing and eat your people's food. As a service droid it is your job to prevent this, and maximise the output.

Achieving this involves a lot of planning and resource management. There are several buildings at your disposal, containing seeds, solar panels, weaponry, fencing and traps. You must plant the seeds, use the solar panels to maximise their growth, and then harvest the finished product so as to trade it. You can carry a gun to take care of the bugs, but this needs recharging frequently, and the location of the munitions store must be determined.

When the bugs break part of the fence, you need to replace it to stop lots more coming through. This can be done more quickly by reducing the compound size, which causes the trade-off loss of growing room.

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Average score: 53% (based on 4 ratings)

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Average score: 4.6 out of 5 (based on 10 ratings with 1 reviews)

One of the top games for MSX 1

The Good
Keep the ants out! They eat the muchrooms! They eat the fences! They eat everything! Shoot them! There are so many.

So replace the wood fences with stronger ones! But they cost more, so grow more muchrooms to sell them for credits. Buy seed, stronger fences, solar panels, electric pads, help droids etc. Oh my, you forgot to turn on the beacon for the incoming shipment!! Now your shipment is scattered all over the map! Go try to save them before the ants eat everything!

The Bad
Not much! You'll need a lot of time though, so not a game if you just want to play for a couple of minutes. You can't save your progress.

The Bottom Line
Very good. One of the best MSX 1 games.

MSX · by Terraqua · 2024

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Game added by Martin Smith.

Atari 8-bit added by Игги Друге.

Additional contributors: formercontrib, Karsa Orlong.

Game added September 16, 2005. Last modified October 22, 2023.