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| Developer(s) | Third Millennium Software |
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| Platform(s) | MS-DOS, Amiga |
| Release | MS-DOS
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| Genre(s) | Strategy game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Starlord is a science-fiction strategy game developed by Third Millennium Software and published by MicroProse in 1993.
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