

The story is in the instruction manual and isn’t unique. The condition of the planet doesn’t matter with terraforming technology any environment can be a veritable oasis for humanity. This prompts a journey to the stars in search of a new home. In the future mankind has once again made Earth inhospitable. The Terraforming in the game’s title is the reason for your adventure. While Terraforming excels in the graphics department the gameplay is only solid yet dull. Syd Mead’s Terraforming banked on its visual design to do just that. To stand out in this highly saturated crowd a game needed a unique hook. I like the genre and all but Jesus did they overdo it. Conversely in the US we mostly received shooters. In Japan the PC Engine CD has a robust lineup of games covering all genres. One of the greatest drawbacks of the Turbo Grafx-16’s failure is that we weren’t exposed to the breadth of its library. Publisher: NEC Released: 1993 Genre: Shooter
