Planet Miners (sometimes The Planet Miners) is a game published by the Microcomputer Games division of Avalon Hill for the TRS-80 Level II microcomputer in 1980. It was ported to the Atari 8-bit family, Apple II, and Commodore PET. The game is written in BASIC.

Plot summary

Planet Miners is a game that involves four corporations trying to control the mining rights on the nine planets of Earth's solar system.

Planet Miners

Reception

Joseph T. Suchar reviewed Planet Miners in The Space Gamer No. 32. Suchar commented that "Overall I found it tedious. I would not recommend it."

Planet Miners

Reviews

Moves #57, p15-16

References

External links

Review in 80 Micro

Review in The Addison Wesley Book Of Atari Software 1984

Review in Creative Computing

1980 video games

Avalon Hill video games

Apple II games

Atari 8-bit family games

Commodore PET games

Microcomputer Games games

TRS-80 games

Video games developed in the United States

Planet Miners