Monuments of Mars

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Monuments of Mars

Developer(s)	Scenario Software
Publisher(s)	Apogee Software
Designer(s)	Todd Replogle
Engine	FAST
Platform(s)	MS-DOS
Release date	1990
Genre(s)	puzzle/platform game
Mode(s)	Single player
Media	floppy disk (1)
Input methods	Keyboard

Monuments of Mars is a third-person puzzle platform video game developed by Scenario Software and published by Apogee Software. The game consists of four 20 level episodes, the first episode being shareware, the rest being commercial software. It is based on the FAST (Fluid Animation Software Technology) CGA game engine from Arctic Adventure and Pharaoh's Tomb, developed by George Broussard, and later published by Apogee.

In the game, the player controls an astronaut who must navigate through twenty levels on the planet Mars to finish the game. Most levels require the player to enter a door to advance to the next level, but earlier levels have the player simply move to the opposite side of the screen. The player has the capability to jump and shoot with a gun. This is useful to operate switches which open doors or turn off obstacles. A unique point to this game is that the player has no limit of lives. A player may restart a level as many times as necessary. If a player can collect the letters in the word "MARS" scattered throughout the level in order, a large bonus is added to the player's score.

The game was discontinued, and is no longer sold by Apogee.

[edit] The Story So Far...

According to an in-game option, the story so far is as follows:

“

NASA has sent several manned missions to explore the mysterious monuments of Mars. However, each mission has ended in disaster: the crew of each mission has failed to return, and know one [sic] knows why!

You are the last hope. Can you explore the strange Martian structures and reveal their secrets? Can you survive to discover what happened to the men who manned the previous missions?

Your computer guided ship guides itself past deadly meteors and into the strong gravitational pull of the Earth-sized Red Planet.

It won't be long now, you think to yourself, until the secrets of the Monuments of Mars are finally revealed.

”