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Star Control: Famous Battles of the Ur-Quan Conflict, Volume IV (or just simply Star Control) is a science fiction video game developed by Toys for Bob and published by Accolade in 1990.

It was originally released for Amiga and MS-DOS in 1990, followed by a Mega Drive/Genesis port in 1991.

Simple ported versions were also released for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.

A sequel was released in 1992.

Stardock Corporation is a software development company founded in 1991 and incorporated in 1993 as Stardock Systems.

Stardock initially developed for the OS/2 platform, but was forced to switch to Microsoft Windows due to the collapse of the OS/2 software market between 1997 and 1998.

The company is best known for computer programs that allow a user to modify or extend a graphical user interface as well as personal computer games, particularly strategy games such as the Galactic Civilizations series, , , and Ashes of the Singularity.

PC games, also known as computer games or personal computer games, are video games played on a personal computer rather than a dedicated video game console or arcade machine.

Their defining characteristics include a lack of any centralized controlling authority, a greater degree of user control over the video-gaming hardware and software used and a generally greater capacity in input, processing, and output.

Extraterrestrial life, also called alien life (or, if it is a sentient or relatively complex individual, an "extraterrestrial" or "alien"), is life that does not originate from Earth.

These hypothetical life forms may range from simple single-celled organisms to beings with civilizations far more advanced than humanity.

Although many scientists expect extraterrestrial life to exist in some form, there is no evidence for its existence to date.

The Drake equation speculates about the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

The science of extraterrestrial life in all its forms is known as exobiology.

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device, but as of the 2000s, it implies any type of display device that can produce two- or three-dimensional images.

Some theorists categorize video games as an art form, but this designation is controversial.