# Name this game please **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 22, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-game-please/525989 "2010-01-22T14:47:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-game-please/525989/1 "2010-01-22T14:47:04Z")
PC platform… DOS… You have to build colonies and spaceships and weapons to defend the colonies. You are warned by an alien race not to send probes to Mars. If you do, you get attacked. Your colonies are primarily built on the moons of the other planets. Your goal is to build a huge space ark. What is this game called? ---
**Author:** ![silverfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@silverfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silverfish)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-game-please/525989/2 "2010-01-22T15:07:00Z")
This sounds like [Millennium 2.2](http://www.mobygames.com/game/millennium-return-to-earth-), also known as Millennium:Return to Earth. I had it on the Atari ST, and remember sending probes, and the attacks if you send probes too far out. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-game-please/525989/3 "2010-01-22T15:08:20Z")
> [@silverfish](#): > > This sounds like [Millennium 2.2](http://www.mobygames.com/game/millennium-return-to-earth-), also known as Millennium:Return to Earth. I had it on the Atari ST, and remember sending probes, and the attacks if you send probes too far out. OMG! You rock! Thank you!