Alien Legacy

[paynesgrey]

These are a couple of ancient classics, of the "build a colony under lousy circumstances" games, Alien Legacy had more in the way of story line and exploration, while Outpost was pretty much "sim city on a distant rock". Both were great fun, and I've not been able to find either to buy, so I suspect they are orphaned now.

Any suggestions, or chance they might be uploaded?

[Tom Henrik]

I believe they are both protected by ESA, but I could be wrong.

If they are, we won't add them.

[paynesgrey]

I wouldn't dream of asking them to be posted if they are still owned by anybody. If they are, forget I asked. I will cheerfully assume you've better information of what is and isn't covered. If anybody can find where I can purchase them I'd be happy to go to the vendor, as I'm not into the warez thing myself.

[Eagle of Fire]

I have Outpost II and it's great. What makes this game good still by today standards (and probably why it's not abadonned yet) is because everytime you successfully finished a mission you unlocked a chapter of the whole story of the game.

Great read, and that makes only the play even more interesting, even tough the game interface and the game difficulty were both hard to master.

[janm.l]

(german version below)

ENGLISH VERSION

Hello,

recently, I remembered a game from the 90's but not its name. It acted of the fact that mankind was leaving earth with the spaceship Calypso in order to settle a far galaxy. In this galaxy you arrived, then, you had to settle a suitable planet and to investigate the galaxy. It had thus a Sim City element, in addition, something from Master of Orion.
You could build small spaceships, in order to reach other planets and to explore their surfaces. There, you could collect in an "Afterburner" view you could collect ore and find artifacts.
In the later process of the game you settled the farther gas giants. High-energetic Gas was suitable, but unfortunately also the source of living of a foreign race, which attacked as soon as you harvested the gas. In addition it turned out that a Asteroid was not an Asteroid, but a gigantic combat ship.
In this game, the planet galaxy was revolutionary: all planets followed its courses around theirselves. In order to be able to fly to a planet with an orbital glider, you had to wait until this approached the home basis or the Calypso, so you could reach it.
I think there was a review of the game in Powerplay (german magazine) in the same issue in ehich was the complete solution of Larry 3. Or in teh year book in one of the first letters of the alphabet (AC). It was not called Alpha Centauri... It may benot so important, but it wurmt me that nobody even remembers this game and me not only the name...
Please help me! :bye:
Thanks for your assistance and greeting, abandonment commodity lover...


:ranting: muck, now I remember the name!!! Alien Legacy!
Is there somebody remembering it or even having it?

GERMAN VERSION:

Hallo,

ich habe mich gerade eben nocheinmal sehnsüchtig an ein Spiel aus den 90ern erinnert und keiner kannte es mehr. Es war wohl auch nicht bekannt aber trotzdem genial.

Es handelte davon, daß die Menschheit mit dem Raumschiff Calypso den bedrohten Planeten Erde verließ um eine bewohnbare Galaxie anzufliegen. In dieser Galaxie in der man dann annkam mußte man dann einen geeigneten Planeten besiedeln und die Galaxie erforschen. Es hatte somit ein Sim City Element, aber auch etwas von Master of Orion.
Man konnte kleine Raumschiffe bauen, damit zu anderen Planeten fliegen und deren Oberfläche erkunden. Dort konnte man in einer art "Afterburner Ansicht" Erze sammeln und Artefakte finden. Im späteren Verlauf des Spiels hat man die ferneren Gasgiganten besiedelt und mußte unliebsam feststellen, daß das so schön energiereiche Gas lebensgrundstoff einer fremden Rasse war, die einen angriff, sobalt man das Gas erntete.
Außerdem stellte sich heraus, daß ein Asteroid kein Asteroid war, sondern ein gigantisches Kampfschiff. Revolutionär an diesem Spiel war vor allen Dingen die Planetengalaxie in der sich alle Planeten ihren Bahnen folgten. Um zu einem Planeten mit einem Raumgleiter fliegen zu können, mußte man Anfangs warten, bis dieser sich der Heimbasis oder der Calypso auf seiner Laufbahn näherte.

Ich glaube das Spiel war in der Powerplay in der die Komplettlösung zu Larry 3 war. Oder in einem der Jahreshefte aus der Zeit auf den ersten Seiten (A-C). Alpha Centauri hieß es jedenfalls nicht.
Es mag verrückt sein, aber es wurmt mich einfach, daß mir nicht einmal mehr der Name hierzu einfällt! :ranting: Mist, jetzt fällt er mir ein: Alien Lagacy. Hat jemand dieses Spiel?

Danke für Eure Hilfe und Gruß, Abandonware-Liebhaber...

[Wael]

Sorry,
Still sold /- (http://store.yahoo.com/e-cdrom/cd3229.html)

[Mad-E-Fact]

From the description I was sure you meant Reunion. You could download it from here, I'm sure you will have lots of fun with it. :)

[djurre]

I remember playing alien legacy, it was the first game that introduced me to the "empire building" principle. I loved it, but then... well, i dont remember. i do know i dowloaded it some time ago from a site (it wasnt HOTU). but i didnt have dosbox, and i do now.

Alien legacy plz :)

[Omuletzu]

I believe it's not abandoned :not_ok:

[Gun Man]

Any screen or link??

[Omuletzu]

here (http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/p,2/gameId,1234/) Sierra...

[djurre]

Hmmm none of the buy links lead to the actual game, its all about the alien legacy movie, and allot more crap i dont want.....

its a shame, this game was interresting, it had atmosphere, and it was real tough ...

[Omuletzu]

Don't give up just yet, as we have an agreement with sierra.So you might see it on the site.That is of course if you are willing to make a review ;).But before that, contact Kosta.

[djurre]

Your asking me to write a review ?

i'd have to apply objective judgement
Id have to be able to compare it with games of its genre and age
i'd have to be able to write a full page of text and make shure some of you can actually make sense of it
i'd have to invest time ..... wich is something i have a shortage of ... my education has reached a quite critical point wich requires effort .....\


but hey, if it will get me an alltime classic :)



by the way, i cant find the game through the sierra store either, not does the site provide any information on the title ... i dont think the'll make such a big deal out of it, considering you appearently have a "deal" with them.

[Omuletzu]

If you are willing to make a review, AND if the game is abandoned then i can provide the archive

[janm.l]

it is not abandoned. You can buy it here(5$):

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...ogames&n=507846 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002S50O6/qid=1110552320/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl63/103-4130800-1796669?v=glance&s=videogames&n=507846)

[bjbrains2002]

third party seller, not a respected merchant

[BLOODUK]

djurre found it, pm ! :)

[djurre]

thnx :ok:

[janm.l]

Oh, I now by hazard found my old disks of Alien Legacy. Is AbandonWare, now? I should upload it?

[Titan]

Read this (http://www.abandonia.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5263)

[lgonggr]

Hi,

Strangely enough my favourite game of all time is missing on this site and as far as I can gather it is not ESA-protected. It is freely available for download at underdogs if you don't mind waiting 1.5 hours to download 9.5 MB.

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=39

The game in question is 'Alien Legacy'. It is a bit of a jack-of-all-trades with aspects of milennium 2.2, civilization, homeworld, simcity, and even some arcade shooting at 'Rampage' style monsters. Strangely enough this all works out fine due to the immensely satisfying plot which keeps you on your toes all trough the game.

The plot in short:
Your colony ship, on the run from aliens, arrives as second ship in a solar system. However, the first ship, and its human civilization, are missing. Wreckage and clues as to what happened to them are strewn all over the system. After a rather quiet start the first disaster looms, and right untill the end of the game, you will constantly have one or another disaster looming over you :tomato: . Can mankind survive all these threats ? Are you the man/woman up to the job to pull our race trough ? Play this gem and find out.

I wouldn't mind writing a review if desired. I'd just like to say Abandonia rocks :ok:

Cheers,
Lodewijk

Cheers,
Lodewijk

[Sebatianos]

Well oddly enough - Underdogs have some ESA protected games! This is one of them!!!

All Sierra games are ESA protected - see HERE (http://www.abandonia.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5263&view=findpost&p=106691)!

[Tom Henrik]

And even if it wasn't Sierra, it would still be Dynamix :P


Both Sierra AND Dynamix are ESA Protected.

[lgonggr]

No offence, dudes, I own a legal copy anyway :angel: (it's broken however, which is why I downloaded it). I was misled due to the fact that during my walkaround on underdogs I found a lot of games marked 'Protected by ESA' or something along those lines, so I figured it wasn't protected.

Bloody shame tough :not_ok: , this game rocks. Can't get it anywhere - out of stock.

Cheers,
Lodewijk

[jwidsvs]

looking to get alien legacy..... but cant find it anywhere!! any one have it?

[Frodo]

According to our OldWarez list - http://www.abandonia.com/main.php?nav=awlist, Alien Legacy is ESA, so it can't be added to the site. Sorry.

:(

[a1s]

it's not all that good eather...

[Dave]

Alien Legacy (1993) by Sierra On-Line, Inc. Protected :not_ok:
Often Sierra means not :ph34r:

[Luchsen]

Alien Legacy | 1993 | Sierra | [REJECTED: ESA]
Outpost | 1994 | Sierra | [REJECTED: ESA]

Protected till 2009/2010.

[Dave]

Alien Legacy (1993) by Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Protected for 15 years.
So available on 2009.

[Dave]

Alien Legacy (1993) by Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Protected for 15 years.
So available on 2009.

[Luchsen]

Alien Legacy | 1993 | Sierra | [REJECTED: ESA]

Protected till 2009.

[Dave]

mhh..Luchsen?
Maybe this goes to rejected, moved.

[arete]

Sierra has left ESA. Approved?

[Paco]

Sierra has left ESA. Approved?

why do you think, that Thread is in Approved Requests-Forum?

[bobson]

Archive of Alien Legacy inside Romano's Ultimate DOS Collection.