Starflight™ 1+2

I have this on Megadrive and seeing that it originated on PC I thought itd be great to see the 'proper' version in all its PC-Glory. Unfortunaly both parts 1 & 2 are like Atari 2600 games and wholly unplayable today in my eyes. My first GoG regret unfortunately and, while I can see the basis of a great game here, I will stick with the Megadrive version now.

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I first played this on the MegaDrive and I was just blown away with the scale of this. Something like 800 planets to explore inc various gravity and atmospheres on the planets. Landing and timing the retrorockets (before it burned all fuel) to slow your descent without crushing and injuring crew along with solar winds blowing your lunar buggy off course- again burning precious limited fuel (you can dig in and ride the storms out, if you don’t hit rock that is! Naming your crew - back then- was a novelty that made the game special. I don’t know how long it took me to finish the game, but I know that PCs had come out (voodoo 2 and matrix mystique) that could play the first proper games while I was playing it! Yeah, it’s a monster that I just had to buy on GoG as well, though I still have it on my Megadrive and manual and mint map. Btw, if you love this and have a Megadrive I recommend Buck Rogers. The two compliment each other in space travel and combat with alien races etc.

I remember playing this game on my DOS PC many many years ago. I couldn't remember the name of the game but I recognized the screenshots immediately. Fantastic epic adventure that takes you across space and time, where you mine worlds, record them for colonization, ans try to save the entire galaxy!

Starflight 1 is completely unplayable on a modern computer - some of the letters can't even be distinguished from one another due to the terrible font. Starflight 2 is a slight improvement (at least the text is readable), but the controls are wonky and it just wasn't worth the effort for me to figure out how to play.