Space Station Simulator

aka: SkyBase
Moby ID: 71578

Windows version

This was a complete let down

The Good
To be honest there wasn't a great deal I liked about this game. Apart from plugging together modules to make a model of the station and looking at it from all angles there's really not a lot to do apart from read the help files.

The Bad
I thought I was getting a space station simulation. I was seduced by the packaging's blurb "Experience the thrill of living and working in space" etc. What I got was a repackaged, re-issue of a WIN 95 game that itself was a conversion of an earlier WIN 3.1 title. It's obviously an old title because everything in it refers to events that have yet to happen, modules that have yet to be built.

The Bottom Line
This is called a simulation, it is not.
Back in its day this would have been interesting without being wonderful. Now it looks and feels really dated and there's really very little to do here.
Worth a look if you want to collect all things space related but otherwise avoid.

by piltdown_man (232926) on March 14, 2015

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