Welcome to www.lasersquad.org This site is dedicated to Laser Squad - created by Jullian Gollop over 20 years ago, and yet still as playable today as then. Many of today's games take concepts and elements from Laser Squad which was in turn based on an earlier game - RebelStar. I have recreated Laser Squad (and Rebel Star) to run using Java so that it can run on most modern computers and Operating systems, even from a browser.

I've added a few extra player options. Use the default method on your computer to get a popup menu (ie right mouse button in windows) that allows you to turn on or off sounds, read the briefing or other options. This version was last updated at 21:38, on 1st August 2010 GMT.

The 'Return to Moonbase' scenario was one I found on the web. It was written by Johan von Nameh and play-tested by too many people to mention here, but the information is listed in the .zip file below and at Tomasz Sienicki's web-site.

I've also found some other scenarios (Mafia, BluePlanet, RescueRangers, TheAliens, Amazones, CoalCorp, Biowar, DeadCity, HostileTakeover, Saboteurs, The Assasins2, and TheMelterSquad). I've yet to figure out who wrote them, but have heard that one of the authors might be Kaz (Was this the same person that wrote demos for the spectrum?) and would like to ask permission of the authors before publishing any Java conversions. If you know who created them I'd be realy gratefull to know who they were so I could contact them. The other problem with these extra scenarios is that they don't always follow the origional Laser Squad method of how scenario data works so don't convert easily and will take longer to convert than the origional scenarios.

All the files you'll need to play this game off-line as well as other useful stuff is available in the download section..

If you spot any bugs (either crashes or in differences from the origional version) please let me know what they were and when they happened so that I might be able to fix them. Steve Godrich spotted bugs with spotting enemy units, dropping items, and explosions, all of which I've now been able to fix. Jukka Paatero spotted a couple more bugs with explosions that I've also been able to fix. Thanks to Craig Turner who's spotted a bug in the sound system that I've since fixed with his help.

I have now implemented an automated bug reporting system. If a crash happens that the system catches you'll see a message thanking you for using the system. I will try to fix any bug reported via this system within a week or so, so if you get this message when Laser Squad crashes, please try again later.

You can contact me at william@lasersquad.org