Captain Scarlet: In the Shadow of Fear

Captain Scarlet: In the Shadow of Fear is a game based on British science-fiction television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967-1968). The story is that in the year 2068 a Spectrum mission to Mars led by Captain Black goes wrong and a Martian city inhabited by the Mysterons is destroyed. The Mysterons kill Black, use their powers of retrometabolism to take over his body and declare war on Earth. Your mission is to help Captain Scarlet discover their plans and foil an attempt to blow up the Spectrum observatory on Earth.

The game features six mini-games of different genres that can be played in sequence in the Story mode, or in any order in the Mission Select mode: cracking alien codes, piloting a Rover vehicle, landing the probe on Mars, locating color keys to open color doors etc. There is also a multimedia area with facts about the solar system and a quiz.