

As the game progresses, new worlds are discovered, other races encountered, worlds colonized and wars fought. The game begins with a single colonized homeworld, a colony ship, and two scout ships that can be used to explore nearby stars. Most reviews by critics and players were very favorable.

The game was designed to use MS-DOS and was published by MicroProse in 1993. It was developed by Simtex Steve Barcia and Ken Burd designed it.

Master of Orion ( MOO1) is the first in the Master of Orion series.
