Entry Summary
ID3909
TitlePsi-5 Trading Company
MachineZX-Spectrum 48K
LanguageEnglish
GenreStrategy Game: Management
Max Players1
Available TypeA
Without Load ScreenNo
Without InlayNo
Downloads
TypeLinkSizeMD5FlagsDetailsComments
Tape image/pub/sinclair/games/p/Psi-5TradingCompany.tzx.zip279,512-
Alkatraz Protection SystemOriginal release (O)
Tape image/pub/sinclair/games/p/Psi-5TradingCompany.tap.zip58,307-
Undetermined
Loading screen/pub/sinclair/screens/load/p/scr/Psi-5TradingCompany.scr6,912-
Running screen/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/p/Psi-5TradingCompany.gif7,256-
Instructions/pub/sinclair/games-info/p/Psi-5TradingCompany.txt768-
Media scan/zxdb/sinclair/entries/0003909/Psi-5TradingCompany_Tape.jpg68,82294b232f5d8057e274db107c19109e5f7
None
Inlay - Front/zxdb/sinclair/entries/0003909/Psi-5TradingCompany_Front.jpg899,11074e7dc32852fadb3e960f6f1c6669eb6
NoneDouble jewel case
Instructions/zxdb/sinclair/entries/0003909/Psi-5TradingCompany(EN).pdf2,627,6602a2a222c76b64ca6af0203a4f7bf77e0
None
Instructions/zxdb/sinclair/entries/0003909/Psi-5TradingCompany(EN)_2.pdf25,48564ee4d670e7fd60899dc3a7322261133
None
Releases
Release #YearDownloads
#019879
Origins
TypeTitlePublicationIssueDate
standalonePsi-5 Trading CompanyU.S. Gold Ltd-1987
Relations
No relations recorded
Tags / Members
TagTypeCategoryMember SeqLinks
Custom Screen LoaderFeature-
Any title featuring a custom way to display the loading screen while the game loads (excluding timers).
Ports
TitlePlatformOfficialLink
-Amstrad CPCYesLink
-Commodore 64YesLink
Remakes
No remakes recorded
Scores
WebsiteScoreVotes
WorldOfSpectrum6.410
Notes
TypeText
RemarksMike Lorenzen (original C64 version): "My favorite Psi-5 story... Accolade assigned a administrative assistant to off load non game design work so we could focus. I gave him (Mike Craven) the task of trying to come up with cool sounding parts of the ship that would break while under attack. He did not supply the list promptly or completely. To punish him I filled the named table entries of devices with "Craven, later"). Since there were many unnamed entries, the stub "Craven,later" was seen often during game testing as the most fragile device on the ship. Since we did not know part of the ship it was it really did not effect any part of the ship. To punish him further at game release, I took the comma out and made "Cravenlater" as the most fragile thing on the ship and it did absolutely nothing (sort of my opinion of any management position to help a single person game design.) There has been much speculation among players about what the Cravenlater was and how important it was... Now you know the real truth."
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