Nomad

Nomad is a 1993 space trading and combat game developed by Intense! Interactive and Papyrus Design Group. It was published by GameTek for MS-DOS. Nomad combines elements of alien diplomacy, trading, exploration, and combat. It has been compared to Starflight and Elite 2. Plot The story of Nomad changed between its early design and its ultimate commercial release. Originally, the game was to be titled Space Mountain, and act as a tie-in to the Disneyland roller coaster of the same name. Introductory narration was recorded for the game that described the player's character climbing aboard the model ship at Space Mountain only to discover that it is a real spacecraft, which then is unexpectedly launched into Earth orbit with the unwitting protagonist still aboard. The connection with Disneyland was abandoned for the commercial release of Nomad. The story changed to describe the protagonist as being an agent of a global intelligence organization ("O.E.S.I.") that discovered a crashed alien spacecraft in a snowy region of Earth. They repair and re-launch the craft with the protagonist as its sole crew member.