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Atari ST

Driller

1987 1 Players 75% Not Rated

A 3D strategy / action game featuring scaling and rotating polygon graphics. You're the sole voyager happening upon an abandoned space station that's ready to explode from the pressure of dangerous vapors building up inside. For each sector, you must locate the build-up area, then drill to release the pressure. Features 18 different areas to explore, each with its own unique laws of physics and logic, and a number of secret rooms and hidden levels to discover. In this game you take control of a drilling machine and explore a 3D world, which is on the brink of exploding. Time is running out for the moon and when it blows up it will take your home planet with it. The main idea of the game is to drill into the earth and relieve the gas build up. Your machine has a laser cannon to help fight off security lasers, you can also enter various buildings to find the gas build up. The game is divided into sectors in which you find a place to leave a vent and then proceed to the next sector. You control the machine by mouse clicking on the control panel at the bottom of the screen which also tells you the condition of the gas build up.

Release date
December 31, 1987
Developer
Incentive Software Ltd.
Publisher
Epyx, Inc.
Players
1

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Driller

A 3D strategy / action game featuring scaling and rotating polygon graphics. You're the sole voyager happening upon an abandoned space station that's ready to explode from the pressure of dangerous vapors building up inside. For each sector, you must locate the build-up area, then drill to release the pressure. Features 18 different areas to explore, each with its own unique laws of physics and logic, and a number of secret rooms and hidden levels to discover.

In this game you take control of a drilling machine and explore a 3D world, which is on the brink of exploding. Time is running out for the moon and when it blows up it will take your home planet with it.

The main idea of the game is to drill into the earth and relieve the gas build up. Your machine has a laser cannon to help fight off security lasers, you can also enter various buildings to find the gas build up. The game is divided into sectors in which you find a place to leave a vent and then proceed to the next sector. You control the machine by mouse clicking on the control panel at the bottom of the screen which also tells you the condition of the gas build up.

Genres

ActionStrategy

Modes

Single Player

Studios and credits

Developer
Incentive Software Ltd.
Publisher
Epyx, Inc.

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Release date

WorldwideDecember 31, 1987 · Not Rated

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