Starquake is a platform-puzzle game developed by Bubble Bus Software and released in 1985, available across a wide range of home computers including the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, BBC Microcomputer, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Amiga, MSX, DOS, and Tatung Einstein. The player controls BLOB — a Bio-Logically Operated Being — dispatched into the core of a planet to prevent it from catastrophically exploding. Gameplay involves navigating the planet's interior across a large network of interconnected screens, combining the traversal demands of a traditional platformer with puzzle-solving elements drawn from the arcade genre. The multi-platform release made it one of the more widely distributed titles of its era, and the distinctive premise of piloting a biological construct through a subterranean environment gave it a notable identity among contemporary platformers of the mid-1980s.
From the great abyss of a black hole emerges a danger of awesome consequences - a planet so unstable that if its core is not rebuilt the resulting explosion will render the Galaxy a lifeless wasteland. To the rescue, Blob, hero of the moment. This Bio-Logically Operating Being is chosen not for his super intelligence, not for his fearlessness nor for his super powers - his is the only spaceship available. Out to face danger he goes - trusty spaceship, flight-board computer and galaxy A-Z. Will he succeed? Will he be in time? He'd better, there's no other chance for the world.
