Ebonstar is a computer game developed by MicroIllusions

MicroIllusions

MicroIllusions, based in Granada Hills, California was a computer game developer and publisher of the home computer era . MicroIllusions, as a company, was a strong supporter of the Commodore Amiga and would typically release a title on that platform before porting it to others...

 in 1988 for the Amiga

Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities...

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Plot

The player character

Player character

A player character or playable character is a character in a video game or role playing game who is controlled or controllable by a player, and is typically a protagonist of the story told in the course of the game. A player character is a persona of the player who controls it. Player characters...

 commands a fleet of spacecraft around an ever-moving, extremely dangerous black hole in this space-based competition set in the 31st century. The player fires the fleet's weaponry at opponents' spacecraft to knock them into the black hole and destroy them. However, the black hole also spits out more opponents as well.

Reception

The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon

Dragon (magazine)

Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...

#137 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 5 out of 5 stars.