Mars/Mars II

Mars screen Mars II screen
Original Mars, and Mars II game screens

Mars & Mars II are text based adventure games written in BASIC from Aardvark software, who made many such games during the early 1980's (and for many platforms). These 2 are the same game, although the room descriptions are more terse in the original version (I believe to get it to fit on a 16K disk system?). In this adventure you have to fix your spaceship to get away from Martians. The original ads for this program called it simply 'Mars', and I believe the 'Mars II' came from a modified version for Disk Extended BASIC to allow it run on a 16K machine. The text descriptions Aardvark marketed this one as an easier, beginners adventure (although average playing time was still lasted as 30-50 hours).

Title: Mars/Mars II

Author: Rodger Olsen

Publisher: Aardvark-80

Released: May 1981

Requires: Color Computer 1,2,3, 16K RAM, disk or tape.

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