I created this game way back in 1990, at a time when the ZX SPECTRUM was becoming a thing of the past. It was one of those projects I never intended to release. Back then, the Internet was something that wasn’t even in our wildest imagination, and for someone like me, writing a game in Portugal, there was no way to publish it widely, let alone promote it.

SPACE 1999 was an experiment for me, as I was trying to learn how to create adventures using GAC at the time. That’s when I got the idea of adapting my favorite sci-fi series from childhood.

My English back then wasn’t exactly perfect, so I’m sure you’ll still find some language glitches in the game. This game remained forgotten for about 30 years, tucked away in a drawer on one of my old tapes, but I always dreamed of bringing it back to life.

Recently, I came across André Luna Leão here in Portugal, who runs the blog Planeta Sinclair. I contacted him about restoring my old GAC games, and somehow André performed a miracle, bringing my old SPACE 1999 game back to life.

We decided not to update it too much and to publish it as it was originally made. André simply ensured that the "bad English" of my 20-year-old self in 1990 didn’t ruin the gameplay, particularly when it came to the commands needed to solve the game, but we left everything else as it was back then.