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Space Spartans

History

You are the captain of a spaceship exploring the universe, and meet a hostile invasion fleet. Only against an incessant flood of enemies, you engage the fight to delay them and leave your Federation time to prepare its defense against this invader.

Game Mechanics

At first shot of him, Space Spartans may look like a cross between a talking version of Space Battle and the Atari hit Star Raiders.

After selecting the level of difficulty, the game starts on the screen "Scale", a grid map of space, where each box represents a sector. The player begins to deploy its 3 space bases in the 3 sectors of his choice. He can then move the cursor from one box to another to send his ship to the corresponding area. Coloured boxes (green, yellow, orange, red and purple) indicate the presence of an enemy fleet in an area and an estimate of its size (from 1 to 4 vessels for a green box, up to more than 33 ships for a purple box). Coloured boxes containing the "base" icon mark the location of an enemy base. A box with the yellow "base" icon indicates the player's bases, where he can move his ship to perform repairs or refuel in energy. If the ship enters an area occupied by a fleet, the screen goes into "Fight" mode, representing the view from the shooting turret, with a viewfinder in the center of the screen. To perfect immersion, no textual information is displayed on the combat screen, all information is given by voice synthesis.

Three different voices guide and inform the player during the fight:

• The central computer (male cars) provides information on the vessel's energy level and alerts if it descends below 1,000 units. It also gives the number of enemy vessels remaining in the current sector.
• The ship's computer (female voices) indicates the state of the vessel's systems (coppers, pulse motor, hyperspace engine, target system), and the progression of repairs.
• The base computer (one-tone robotic voice) alerts when one of the player's space bases is attacked.

A fourth voice, that of the alien commander, intervenes only at the end of the game, to point out that the battle is over ("The battle is over»).