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Star Control II

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Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters is a science fiction video game, a sequel to Star Control. [1]

77 relations: Accolade (company), Adventure game, Amiga, Atari, Atari, SA, Berkeley Software Distribution, Compact disc, Computer Gaming World, Creative Commons license, Crystal Dynamics, David Brin, Dragon (magazine), Electronic Arts, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Eric the Unready, Erol Otus, Exoplanet, Extraterrestrial life, Fred Ford (programmer), Game Developers Conference, GamePro, GameSpot, GNU General Public License, GP2X, Gravis Ultrasound, Hyperspace, IGN, International Data Group, Known Space, Kosmic Free Music Foundation, Larry Niven, Linux, List of exoplanet firsts, List of Star Control races, MacOS, Maemo, Microsoft Windows, MobyGames, MOD (file format), Modding, Module file, MS-DOS, Multiplayer video game, Natural resource, Nokia N900, Non-commercial, O'Reilly Media, Open-source model, Operating system, Ouya, ..., Pandora (console), Paul Reiche III, PC Gamer, PlayStation Portable, ProTracker, Science fiction, Shoot 'em up, Single-player video game, Source code, SourceForge, Species, Star Control, Star Control 3, Starflight, Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula, Toys for Bob, Uplift Universe, Usenet newsgroup, Video game, Video game remake, Video Graphics Array, Wii, Wiki, Xbox (console), Ziff Davis, 1992 in video gaming, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. Expand index (27 more) »

Accolade (company)

Infogrames North America, Inc. (formerly Accolade, Inc.) was an American video game developer and publisher based in San Jose, California.

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Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving.

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Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.

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Atari

Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972, currently by Atari Interactive, a subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA.

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Atari, SA

Atari, SA (formerly Infogrames Entertainment, SA) is a French holding company headquartered in Paris.

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Berkeley Software Distribution

Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) was a Unix operating system derivative developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1977 to 1995.

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Computer Gaming World

Computer Gaming World (CGW) was an American computer game magazine published between 1981 and 2006.

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Creative Commons license

A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work.

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Crystal Dynamics

Crystal Dynamics, Inc. is an American video game developer that was founded in 1992 by Judy Lang, Madeline Canepa and Dave Morse.

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David Brin

Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American scientist and author of science fiction.

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Dragon (magazine)

Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products; Dungeon is the other.

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Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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Electronic Gaming Monthly

Electronic Gaming Monthly (often abbreviated to EGM) is a monthly American video game magazine.

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Eric the Unready

Eric the Unready is an adventure game developed and published by Legend Entertainment for MS-DOS in 1993.

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Erol Otus

Erol Otus is an American artist and game designer, known internationally for his contributions to the fantasy role-playing game (RPG) genre, especially early in the Dungeons & Dragons franchise.

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Exoplanet

An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside our solar system.

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Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life,Where "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("beyond", "not of") and terrestris ("of Earth", "belonging to Earth").

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Fred Ford (programmer)

Robert Frederick "Fred" Ford is a video game programmer and son of L. R. Ford, Jr..

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Game Developers Conference

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is the largest annual gathering of professional video game developers, focusing on learning, inspiration, and networking.

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GamePro

GamePro was an American multiplatform video game magazine media company that published online and print content covering the video game industry, video game hardware and video game software.

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GameSpot

GameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games.

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL) is a widely used free software license, which guarantees end users the freedom to run, study, share and modify the software.

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GP2X

The GP2X is a Linux-based handheld video game console and portable media player developed by South Korean company GamePark Holdings.

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Gravis Ultrasound

Gravis UltraSound or GUS is a sound card for the IBM PC compatible system platform, made by Canada-based Advanced Gravis Computer Technology Ltd.

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Hyperspace

Hyperspace is a faster-than-light (FTL) method of traveling used in science fiction.

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IGN

IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis wholly owned by j2 Global.

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International Data Group

International Data Group, Inc. (IDG) is a Chinese-owned, American-based media, data and marketing services and venture capital organization.

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Known Space

Known Space is the fictional setting of about a dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by Larry Niven.

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Kosmic Free Music Foundation

The Kosmic Free Music Foundation (a.k.a. Kosmic, or KFMF) was a worldwide group of computer musicians, artists, and coders focused on the PC demoscene.

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Larry Niven

Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer.

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Linux

Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.

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List of exoplanet firsts

This is a list of exoplanet discoveries that were the first by several criteria, including.

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List of Star Control races

This is a list of fictional alien species that appeared in various games of the Star Control franchise.

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MacOS

macOS (previously and later) is a series of graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001.

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Maemo

Maemo is a software platform developed by Nokia for smartphones and Internet tablets.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

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MobyGames

MobyGames is a commercial website that catalogs video games both past and present.

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MOD (file format)

MOD is a computer file format used primarily to represent music, and was the first module file format.

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Modding

Modding is a slang expression that is derived from the verb "modify".

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Module file

Module files (MOD music, tracker music) are a family of music file formats originating from the MOD file format on Amiga systems used in the late 1980s.

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MS-DOS

MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.

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Multiplayer video game

A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally or over the internet.

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Natural resource

Natural resources are resources that exist without actions of humankind.

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Nokia N900

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Non-commercial

Non-commercial (also spelled noncommercial) refers to an activity or entity that does not, in some sense, involve commerce, at least relative to similar activities that do have a commercial objective or emphasis.

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O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics.

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Open-source model

The open-source model is a decentralized software-development model that encourages open collaboration.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.

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Ouya

The Ouya, stylized as OUYA, is an Android-based microconsole developed by Ouya Inc.

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Pandora (console)

The Pandora is a handheld game console and mobile personal computer originally released in 2010. It is designed to take advantage of existing free and open-source software and to be a target for homebrew development. It includes several features that no handheld game consoles have previously had, making it a cross between a handheld game console and a subnotebook. It is developed and produced by OpenPandora, which is made up of former distributors and community members of the GP32 and GP2X handhelds. Until 2013 multiple batches of slightly updated Pandora variants were produced. In 2014 the development of a redesigned and upgraded successor, called DragonBox Pyra, was started.

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Paul Reiche III

Paul Reiche III (born February 17, 1961) is an American game designer, particularly known for his work on computer games.

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PC Gamer

PC Gamer is a magazine founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc.

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PlayStation Portable

The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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ProTracker

ProTracker is a popular freeware tracker created by Lars Hamre, Anders Hamre, Sven Vahsen and Rune Johnsrud for the Amiga platform.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Shoot 'em up

Shoot 'em up (also known as shmup or STGDavies, Jonti.. GameSpy. 30 July 2008.Carless, Simon.. Game Set Watch. 5 April 2011.) is a subgenre of the shooter genre of video games.

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Single-player video game

A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session.

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Source code

In computing, source code is any collection of code, possibly with comments, written using a human-readable programming language, usually as plain text.

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SourceForge

SourceForge is a Web-based service that offers software developers a centralized online location to control and manage free and open-source software projects.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Star Control

Star Control: Famous Battles of the Ur-Quan Conflict, Volume IV or just simply Star Control is a science fiction video game developed by Toys for Bob and published by Accolade in 1990.

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Star Control 3

Star Control 3 is a video game developed by Legend Entertainment.

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Starflight

Starflight is a space exploration role-playing adventure video game developed by Binary Systems and published by Electronic Arts in 1986.

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Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula

Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula is a 1989 science fiction video game developed by Binary Systems and published by Electronic Arts as the sequel to the successful Starflight.

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Toys for Bob

Toys for Bob is an American video game developer founded in Novato, California in 1989.

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Uplift Universe

The Uplift Universe is a fictional universe created by American science fiction writer David Brin.

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Usenet newsgroup

A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users in different locations using Internet.

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Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

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Video game remake

A video game remake is a video game closely adapted from an earlier title, usually for the purpose of modernizing a game for newer hardware and contemporary audiences and is coded from scratch.

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Video Graphics Array

Video Graphics Array (VGA) is the display hardware first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987, following CGA and EGA introduced in earlier IBM personal computers.

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Wii

The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006.

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Wiki

A wiki is a website on which users collaboratively modify content and structure directly from the web browser.

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Xbox (console)

The Xbox is a home video game console and the first installment in the Xbox series of consoles manufactured by Microsoft.

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Ziff Davis

Ziff Davis, LLC is an American publisher and Internet company.

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1992 in video gaming

1992 has seen many sequels and prequels in video games and several new titles such as Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Art of Fighting and Mortal Kombat.

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3DO Interactive Multiplayer

The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, often called simply the 3DO, is a home video game console platform developed by The 3DO Company.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Control_II

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