Rebel Planet

Rebel Planet is a video game in the adventure genre developed by Adventuresoft UK Ltd. and published by Adventuresoft UK Ltd. originally released in 1986. It is currently playable on Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro.

The player plays the role of an agent of SAROS, Earth's resistance movement against their imperial alien overlords, the Arcadians. Disguised as a trader, he will fly his ship, the Caydia, to three different colony planets - Tropos, Halmuris and Arcadion - to meet with underground freedom fighters and get the information he needs to destroy the Arcadian hybridization plant, freeing humanity!

Adapted from Robin Waterfield's Fighting Fantasy 18 game book, published the previous year, this computer game version rejects the book's 'Choose Your Own Adventure' game design in favor of a more open-text adventure model, albeit with a restrictive text parser. Most elements of Fighting Fantasy's signature role-playing system, including the randomness of even simulated dice rolls, have been simplified, leaving only damage received and hunger metrics (heretofore untracked in the books).

Another new dynamic is the strict scheduling of space traffic control towers: you have to have settled your affairs on the planet before your launch window arrives, otherwise you're out of luck. In keeping with the game's sci-fi setting (both rural and urban), you'll find extensive use of items like your limcom, nutritious hcaps (tasty as dead Zorkons, num num!) and the indispensable lite-kube. Combat has been largely eliminated in favor of an extension of the gamebook's espionage theme, with keys and passwords, magic words with the power to move the plot forward.

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