Dark Colony [SOLD] [Archive]

SupSuper

21-09-2005, 03:08 PM

anyone has this game? i remember playing different demos from different magazines a long time ago, i found the game so much fun and action-packed, though in the end the aliens ended up overpowering my forces and blowing everything to smitherees :P

one magazine had a custom-made demo mission, something like "The aliens have taken down a craft full of PC Format magazines! You gotta get to them before the aliens do!", I found it so funny finding a crashed spacecraft full of PC Format magazines in the middle of the map, talk about publicity LOL

Shrek

21-09-2005, 07:18 PM

i think it still being sold, at least acording to Mobygames (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/dark-colony)

PrejudiceSucks

21-09-2005, 07:48 PM

Sold Out will sell it to you for a mere five pounds, but I didn't like it personally. There we are though, one person's opinions's shouldn't stop a game being on the site.

Toxik

21-09-2005, 08:14 PM

incidentally,i own original vers of DC.just need to wait till its abandonware..it cant take long,like ten years

bobson

14-06-2007, 05:00 PM

Excuse me for resurrecting, but Oldwarez List say it's Abandonware :D

Geezer

14-06-2007, 05:18 PM

I enjoyed Dark Colony. Basically a slightly scaled down StarCraft (or a primer for StarCraft). I could do an ISO and manual scan.

Ermuli

14-06-2007, 06:24 PM

What about the expansion pack, The Council Wars? Nothing on Oldwarez List.

The Fifth Horseman

15-06-2007, 09:12 AM

Take-Two Interactive, 1998.
Core ESA Member --> under active ESA protection until 2013.

Dave

15-07-2007, 09:43 AM

Dark Colony (1997) by Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Abandonware! :ok:

What about the size?

Luchsen

15-07-2007, 10:20 AM

About 35MB.

Stix-Jr

08-05-2008, 01:38 AM

Well, I looked around and wasn't able to find it mentioned anywhere previously, so hopefully my cursory examination was sufficient and I'm not bugging anyone.

Apologies if I'm wrong and just missed in in my perusal of the other requests.

Anyway, I hold that this was one of the best strategy games ever made, easily up there with titles such as Star Craft or Command & Conquer, but strangely it seems to have faded into obscurity for reasons I cannot fathom.

Damn I miss my copy of Dark Colony. For some reason it vanished from my collection without a trace some years ago, and I've been periodically hunting for it ever since. If it turns out to be a viable request for this site and Abandonware as I'm led to believe, I would really love to be able to get my hands on it again by way of download.

I believe it was published by Strategic Simulations, if I remember the company name and logo correctly, so hopefully that helps. Any assistance would be duly appreciated.

Cheers,

Stix Jr.

Dave

08-05-2008, 12:45 PM

Welcome to Abandonia Stix Jr. :)

Dark Colony (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/dark-colony) (1997)
Published by Strategic Simulations Inc. (http://www.abandonia.com/en/company/Strategic+Simulations%2C+Inc.) (Not ESA Member, status => Acquired)
Developed by Gametek (http://www.abandonia.com/en/company/GameTek%2C+Inc.) (Not ESA member, status => Active)

Unfortunately it's still sold at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_vg/102-6891494-7088158?url=search-alias%3Dvideogames&field-keywords=dark+colony&x=0&y=0)into SSI compilations.
Sorry, but we can't put it on site until it's still sold. (original copies).

Stix-Jr

08-05-2008, 01:07 PM

Damn.

Oh well, cheers anyway mate. Bad news, but I do appreciate the help all the same. This was one of my favourite games when I was little, and it's still one of the best strategy games I've ever played today, so it was worth a shot. :)

I guess I'll just have to sit back and wait until Amazon finally stops carrying it. It's alright, I'm patient. I can't imagine it'll be too much longer now before it becomes available as Abandonware.

And thanks for the welcome, mate. I've actually been visiting the site for a while now, this is just my first time on the forum. :)

Dave

08-05-2008, 01:11 PM

Well, if you like this game so much you could start to write a review, I assure you that the upload procedure will be faster with your help. But yeah, we have to wait a little anyway.
Enjoy our forums :)

Stix-Jr

08-05-2008, 04:32 PM

I'd be more than happy to do just that mate, but I'd seriously need to play it again before I could write about it, especially with any sort of objectivity in mind. It's been too long. The last time I remember playing it I was somewhere between the ages of 12 and 14.

Geezer

10-05-2008, 05:20 PM

Dark Colony has been listed as abandonware on the oldwarez list for some time. Is there anyone that can change that. I was getting set to make an ISO of the game for the ISO cellar. Glad I didn't.

Very good game but not in the same league as Starcraft. It does seem that Starcraft has an awful lot of similarities to Dark Colony (which came out first). Blizzard added a lot more glitz to Starcraft than what Dark Colony has. Anyway if it becomes available I would be glad to make an ISO of it.

Dave

11-05-2008, 02:32 PM

Unfortunately I can't change the outdated OWList, it's unreliable at the moment.

Sebatianos

11-05-2008, 02:37 PM

Status changed.

xalent

18-11-2008, 08:20 AM

Hello all, any help would be nice!

basically i remember a scifi RTS game with 3 factions, 1 human, 1 like roswel grays and 1 zerg type race.

One of the main things i remember about it was your "base" was like a pole/tower and all the buildings were attached to that. The humans had say a training facility but the Grays had a cloning vat thing

I seem to remember the graphics were fairly good but that might just be my mind playing tricks on me!

Edit: never mind just found it! typical

It was called "dark Colony"

AlumiuN

19-11-2008, 07:00 AM

Note Edit button. :)

Dave

25-11-2008, 12:54 PM

It's still sold on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_vg?url=search-alias%3Dvideogames&field-keywords=dark+colony&x=0&y=0).

arete

14-05-2009, 12:55 PM

Those multi-packs are now available only on Amazon Marketplace.

EDIT: Here (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_vg/102-6891494-7088158?url=search-alias%3Dvideogames&field-keywords=dark+colony&x=0&y=0).

_r.u.s.s.

01-06-2009, 11:24 AM

where?

skillz

05-07-2009, 08:11 PM

Another game i have already uploaded
Link pending status

Acethor

21-07-2009, 06:16 PM

Dark Colony (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/dark-colony) [APPROVED]

Not under ESA protection, and no buylinks found.

Amazon Marketplace is discounted.

arete

28-07-2009, 10:35 AM

Nice, Skillz.

Tomekk to review this one. :)

Expack2

04-09-2011, 08:25 PM

Dark Colony is sold on Amazon.de here (http://www.amazon.de/gp/offer-listing/B00005NP1W/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&qid=1315168034&sr=1-1&condition=new) and here (http://www.amazon.de/gp/offer-listing/B0001GQS6I/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&qid=1315168034&sr=1-2&condition=new). Therefore...

Dark Colony - [REJECTED] (Sold on Amazon.de)

Professor Oak

05-09-2011, 07:14 PM

It appears Mastertronic still supports Dark Colony (http://www.mastertronic.com/support.asp?pid=393). Can someone with the appropriate mod privileges check this?

EDIT: Dark Colony is sold on Amazon.de here (http://www.amazon.de/gp/offer-listing/B00005NP1W/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&qid=1315168034&sr=1-1&condition=new) and here (http://www.amazon.de/gp/offer-listing/B0001GQS6I/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&qid=1315168034&sr=1-2&condition=new). Therefore...

Dark Colony - [REJECTED] (Sold on Amazon.de)
Mastertronic is no longer protected under the [SUPPORTED] tag.