battlestar

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battlestar

battlestar is a classic text adventure game included in the BSD games collection. Set aboard a damaged starship after a fierce battle, players must explore the wreckage, find essential items, and survive encounters while navigating through various locations.
The game uses a parser-based input system where players type natural language commands to interact with the environment. It features multiple areas to explore, inventory management, and puzzles typical of the interactive fiction genre from the early 1980s.

Players type commands to navigate and interact with the game world. Common commands include directions (north, south, etc.), examine, take, use, and talk.

Typical adventure game commands:
- look - Examine surroundings
- inventory - Check items
- take/drop - Manage items
- north/south/east/west - Movement
- save/restore - Save game state

Text-only interface. Requires understanding of adventure game conventions. Parser can be finicky. Part of bsd-games package.

battlestar was created in the early 1980s during the golden age of text adventures, inspired by games like Adventure and Zork.

adventure(6), nethack(6), zork(6)