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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.[1] The game is written in BASIC.[2]

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Planet Miners
Cover art used for all platforms
Publisher(s)	Avalon Hill
Platform(s)	TRS-80, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore PET
Release	1980: TRS-80 1981: Atari, PET

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.[3]

Reception

Joseph T. Suchar reviewed Planet Miners in The Space Gamer No. 32.[3] Suchar commented that "Overall I found it tedious. I would not recommend it."[3]

References

External links

• Planet Miners can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive
• Review in 80 Micro
• Review in The Addison Wesley Book Of Atari Software 1984
• Review in Creative Computing

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