Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror (video game)

Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror was a 1985 platform video game developed and published by Micro Power. It featured the Sixth Doctor and Splinx.

Summary
has obtained a TIRU, a device with the ability to chop and splice time, allowing him to rearrange events in the universe. He has held up in the "Mines of Terror" on Rijar, where Heatonite, a mysterious compound vital to the construction of a TIRU, is mined.

The Time Lords send the Doctor to the mining complex. As an emissary of the Time Lords he may not bring any weapons, but he does have a highly sophisticated robot cat called Splinx.

Searching around the mines, labs and other mazes, the Doctor and Splinx collected various objects to confront and defeat the Master.

Characters

 * Sixth Doctor
 * Splinx

Crew
to be added

Story notes

 * This is the first video game to feature the Sixth Doctor.
 * A great deal of narrative information is explored in the Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror manual. These entries include briefing notes, the structure of Heatonite, the origins of the TIRU and the various inhabitants of the Second Moon of Rijar.
 * The game is noted for introducing new elements close to - but distinct from - existing Doctor Who universe concepts to which rights were not obtained. The game's robotic "Controllers" heavily resemble Daleks and Splinx is a logical alteration of K9.
 * The game was initially developed as a followup to the non-Doctor Who game Castle Quest by the same publisher. Doctor Who-related graphic, gameplay, and story elements were added partway through development after the licence to produce a Doctor Who game was obtained.

Continuity

 * The Doctor has been sent on a mission by the Time Lords. (TV: Colony in Space, Genesis of the Daleks, The Two Doctors, et al.)
 * The Sixth Doctor is travelling without any companions, apart from Splinx.