Terrorpods

The player views the action in Terrorpods from the cockpit of his DSV (Defence Strategy Vehicle), which consumes fuel as it travels around the game world, a crater on the planet Colian. In the crater are ten mining colonies, which the player must defend and trade minerals with. The enemy forces comprise destructible Terrorpods and Spoilers roaming the world, and an indestructible mothership that hovers overhead and periodically shoots at the player.

The player's prime objective is to use the DSV to trade resources between the ten colonies, building up their mineral resources so they can each build one part of a Terrorpod. There are five minerals: fuel, "detonite", "quanza", "zenite" and "aluma". The former four are used for fuel and weapons, and the latter is required to build Terrorpod parts. Colonies tend to specialize in the production of a single mineral, which the player can buy and then sell for a profit at a colony where that resource is scarce.

Terrorpods was originally released for the Amiga and Atari ST. Included inside the game box was a foldout poster, drawn by Tim White, depicting three Terrorpods excavating minerals on the icy surface of Colian. The game was later released for Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MSX. These versions removed all the resource management aspects of the original, turning the game into a straight-up shooter.

Julie Boswell's Atari ST User review called the game "superb", praising its high fidelity graphics and sound and the tense, strategic gameplay. The only complaint was the relatively high price.

Hosea Battles, Jr. reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "This is definitely one of the best action, strategy, and adventure games ever marketed for the ST, a game that will have players coming back to it time and time again."