While budget games were a massive boon for cash strapped kids in the Eighties, you never quite knew what you were getting for your £1.99. There were a dozen ramshackle efforts for every little gem, rushed out to earn a quick buck, quantity over quality. Value for money was a huge variable, but for anyone that invested two pounds into Rebelstar, there could have been very few worries over whether players were getting their money’s worth.
Created by Julian Gollop and released by Firebird Software in the autumn of 1986, is a futuristic turn-based strategy game set on the Earth’s only natural satellite. The player controls the Raiders, a band of soldiers sent to assault Moonbase Delta and destroy its central computer, named Isaac. In the
