M. Evan Brooks' review says it all about Universe 1:
A detailed simulation of space exploration and trading. Multi-faceted and very deep, its playability suffered from documentation which was hard to interpret as well as an unforgiving game system. Build your own ship to specifications, but a wrong move can waste hours of previous play. Still it was one of the early classics.
Unfortunately for armchair commanders, Universe 2 and 3 became more similar to RPGs with strategy playing only a minor role, but still great games nonetheless.
Review By HOTUD
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Anyone able to get the PC version to work?
i have figured out some more about how to play. maybe the game is playable after all.
unplayable waste of freaking time. the controls and manual are pure crap.
back in the 80's i was able to pay this somehow on the atari.
how? why was it possible then?
The DOS version of Universe seems to be missing a file.
There are two copies of Flight, one with the extension ".ex_".
Thanks for the great web site!
Does someone have the Dos manual. Cannot play without it. Atari manual which I have does not seem to match.
Yeah we messed up with the two games, I removed the wrong screenshots
These screenshots come from at least 2 different games. The first is Omnitrend's "Universe", an extremely detailed space strategy game for the 8-bit Atari home computers. A translation of that game for the PC is included in the downloadable archive on this page. You can get an idea from the sparsely-colored and mostly text-oriented screenshots.
The second game is less strategic and more of an adventure, as shown in the the screenshots with lots of colors. There was also a third game, similar to the second, so I cannot be sure if the screenshots are from a total of 2 or 3 games.
The only certain thing is that the downloadable archive on the page contains the first game, a clone of the old Atari 8-bit version.
downloaded game seems to be differetn "universe" than one pictured.
No comment nor review for this game at the moment.