Suspended vs Starcross

Suspended is a 1983 interactive fiction game developed and published by Infocom, designed by Michael Berlyn. The player is a human controller permanently housed in a cryogenic vault, tasked with maintaining a planetary colony by issuing commands to six specialized robots. Each robot has distinct sensory capabilities and limitations, requiring the player to combine their different inputs to diagnos...

Starcross is a 1982 science fiction interactive fiction game published by Infocom, written by Dave Lebling. The player controls a lone astronaut aboard a prospecting ship who discovers a massive derelict alien artifact in the asteroid belt and must explore its interior. It was one of Infocom's earliest titles and was originally packaged in a round 'flying saucer' disk holder. The game is a puzzle-...