But while other developers have been keen to expand on the theme, adding everything from 3D graphics to first-person perspectives, Westwood has always remained true to its retro roots. It's a simple formula, and a much-imitated one. Somewhere else on the battlefield your opponent is doing the same. A few units and a battlefield with scattered resource fields at your disposal, you build a base, harvest these resources, and use funds thus gained to construct an army. Command & Conquer games, in the past, have followed the same recipe. You will need a code to play the game: 5000267014203.Westwood isn't exactly a name people associate with innovation. It all fits into a 2MB zip file and runs via an MS-DOS emulator such as DOS-Box. I have a soft copy of the game, along with two photos of the front and rear cardboard case and the whisky barcode number password that is required to begin the game.
Your challenge is a series of puzzles navigating the ship’s computer to try to defuse the bomb for a chance to win real prize money (at the time!). You play a crewman who wakes from sleep aboard a spacecraft the captain is dead and a bomb is set to blow in 90 minutes. My dad was a fan of Star Trek point and click adventure games of the 1990s and this one is similar – it was released on floppy disk bundled with a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red Label whiskey as a promotion of sorts. I have a copy of an obscure game called Johnnie Walker’s Red Alert from 1996 that I would love to share - yet I cannot find anything about it online! A very rare promotional game for Johnnie Walker's Scotch Whisky released in 1996, I'll quote Benjamin who contributed this gem: