At last I know what the inspiration behind StarControl II was. The spinning globe view, the planet survey, landing, harvesting etc. The smooth wireframe transition from space to planet surface here is way ahead of its time. A 3-level of zoom local map, plus a full planetary map of locations to explore. Astounding for its time.
My favorite game of all time. No it doesn't hold up over time. But when I was 13 playing this, it seemed limitless and infinite. I bought it at b. dalton bookstore in 86 or 87 on a whim, and never regretted it. It was so much fun.
Definitely. Starflight captured my imagination more than any other game (Sid Meier's Pirates! being perhaps a distant second). The game play and the story line just draw you in and make you part of its universe. My best friend and I played this so much that summer -- '87 sounds right -- I thought his mother was going to take us to counseling. They had no AC and their house was a heat trap, but we happily endured many hours and days of exploring, mining, and tempting the Uhlek in 100F temperatures. We'd shut down at maybe 2am and throw sleeping bags out on the deck. My mind would be racing as I watched the night sky and wondered what could be happening out there. We'd even dream about it. Once I woke up to my friend yelling in his sleep to "get back in the damned ship". His mother may have been right. Even now it's still fun to look up at night and wonder where Arth is, or to see Orion's belt and pretend it's the Staff Constellation. No other computer game has left that kind of impression on me.
I remember this game. It was so hardcore it formatted your floppydisk when you died (you were told to play on a copy, only). So while you could take breaks it would only have one 'save slot' and then...permadeath. To get any kind of 'savegame slots' you basically had to make a copy of your copy every now and then.
@@nuanil I must have had a newer version of the game. The instructions suggestsd playing from the hard drive to save the disks. It even showed how to do it. CD/STARFLT/INSTALL.
ATTENTION ALL STARFLIGHT FANS: Official SF3 Sequel from Greg Johnson being made in 2018! Sadly it didn’t get crowd funded due to lack of media attention however they will try again later. To stay up to date come join the SF3 fan FB group or the official SF3 Discord channel: facebook.com/groups/starflight3/ discord.gg/qsGB7zf These groups can also keep you up to date on a new SF1 HD fan remake being made in 2018. Demo vid here: th-cam.com/video/GA8aMQeT-o8/w-d-xo.html
This game is still unsurpassed. Modern game developers try to create the thrill of open-ended space exploration using procedural generation, but, in reality, this just results in a universe where all your choices are arbitrary. Any star system you visit, any landing site you choose, will simply show you a different combination of the same stock elements until you eventually become bored by the repetition. There's a degree of novelty, but nothing to truly *discover*. Hence, the focus shifts from exploration to base building, fleet construction, etc. Starflight was filed with unique elements, many of which (e.g., the Mysterion message) had nothing to do with the main storyline. The game developers simply wanted to keep you wondering. They wanted you to feel that, even after you'd "won" the game, there remained deeper mysteries still to be uncovered. As a side note, I was recently trying out Spacebourne 2, and while it appears to suffer from the aforementioned limitations of procedural space exploration, I was elated to discover that your home planet is named "Arth."
Agreed, the little things you found, messages, comments on the history, were amazing. From the profound to the hilarious. In many ways, a game that still rings deep, against even today's titles. The deal of the storyline was amazing.
Not sure if you people know this, I did it. You could go and edit the executable file and change the hard coded parameters, such as the prices, starting money, etc. and just save it. I gave myself lots of initial money, reduced the parameters for training, etc. The only thing you had to watch out for was not changing the length of the hard coded string, else all the addressing locations change. So you wouldn't go change a 99 to a 999.
@@MediaFilter PS - I have been waiting for 20 years for them to finish SF 3. Looks like it will never get finished according to the website updates. There was some crowdfunder in 2018, the last I heard and some investing PR. Too bad.
@@MediaFilter I could still run SF 1/2 on Windows 8. I have all those disks still. havent tried it under Win 10. I lost my map for SF 2, but found it again stashed away with some old Star Trek stuff. I still have my old PS2 with SF installed (among other things), just in case.
@@MediaFilter The only game I played after that, that was any good (in my mind) was Descent 3. I was addicted to SF and blew throught it in 2 weeks with little sleep. Descent 3 about the same.
Hoooooooooooooooly hell. This game taught me what "red herring" meant. I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to pick that stupid thing up. Embarrassing even for an 11 year old.
There was a game in the late 80s/early 90's where you could fly around planets and fly through planets. Anyone remember the name of the game? I think "star" was in the title, not sure though. it might have been for the Amiga.
I think it was Starglider 2 by Argonaut Games, one of the first games to feature 3D filled in vector graphics with curves !. If it's not that game then it could me Damocles (mercenary 2) by Novagen. Then I think there was Elite 2 or was it Elite 3 that allowed you to land on planets maybe I cannot remember.
Spoiler alert - . . . . . . Endurium was a sentient species. The irony was that when you completed the game s main mystery - it gave you almost endless amount of fuel to explore!I played this on a IBM PCJR with 512Kb of memory, one each of 3.5 and 5.2" drives and no hard drive - I think.
Yo Thriftwood! So dang cool to see this game again. Sub'd!! I was wondering if I could use some of your footage for a video essay I'm doing? I'd of course credit you fully, putting your name on screen during your clip + your name in the credits with your channel tagged. Let me know!! Cheers!!
Austin Wall use the number keys bottom right on the keyboard to navigate. Enter key to choose action (stop start, change crew members etc.) During battle, spacebar fires weapons. I wish I could play it again. I threw it away after I ruined my PC.
Basically, this is what E.T wish to succeed but was eagerly rushed and failed. In other words, ET got screwed up by Atari. Starflight was/is everything E.T. wasn't/isn't and a much much better ambitious sci-fi game we needed, given E.T was a mess
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One of the very best games ever created by humankind, period.
One of the best space games ever made. And all in a few 100K!!! It's on GOG now, along with Starflight II!!!
This game made me a gamer. King quest and Lands of lore continued the work. 33 years later...wow!
Same!
Same
At last I know what the inspiration behind StarControl II was. The spinning globe view, the planet survey, landing, harvesting etc. The smooth wireframe transition from space to planet surface here is way ahead of its time.
A 3-level of zoom local map, plus a full planetary map of locations to explore. Astounding for its time.
9:06 "Searing to inferno" must be molten rock.
Its all prerendered. Elite did it at runtime. 3D polygonal vector graphics are older than most realize.
My buddy had this on the Tandy 1000 and it was so awesome back in the day.
I loved my Tandy 1000 so much.
My favorite game of all time. No it doesn't hold up over time. But when I was 13 playing this, it seemed limitless and infinite. I bought it at b. dalton bookstore in 86 or 87 on a whim, and never regretted it. It was so much fun.
32:08 Your terrain vehicle ran out of power.
They need to make this where it will work with Windows 10.
Definitely. Starflight captured my imagination more than any other game (Sid Meier's Pirates! being perhaps a distant second). The game play and the story line just draw you in and make you part of its universe.
My best friend and I played this so much that summer -- '87 sounds right -- I thought his mother was going to take us to counseling. They had no AC and their house was a heat trap, but we happily endured many hours and days of exploring, mining, and tempting the Uhlek in 100F temperatures.
We'd shut down at maybe 2am and throw sleeping bags out on the deck. My mind would be racing as I watched the night sky and wondered what could be happening out there. We'd even dream about it. Once I woke up to my friend yelling in his sleep to "get back in the damned ship". His mother may have been right.
Even now it's still fun to look up at night and wonder where Arth is, or to see Orion's belt and pretend it's the Staff Constellation. No other computer game has left that kind of impression on me.
I forgot about b.dalton and never knew they sold video games
Basically, this is what E.T wish to succeed but was rushed and failed back then. Starflight has done it better
This is such a blast from the past. I use to play this game for hours!
This was the very first game I ever played in 1986 on a Tandy 1000
I remember this game. It was so hardcore it formatted your floppydisk when you died (you were told to play on a copy, only). So while you could take breaks it would only have one 'save slot' and then...permadeath. To get any kind of 'savegame slots' you basically had to make a copy of your copy every now and then.
Peter Zerfass you were supposed to install it on your hard drive.
@@Chilliam13 Many didn't have Hard Drives back then!!!!
@@gamingtonight1526 exactly, I sure didn't!
@@Chilliam13 Nobody had harddrives in 87.. everyone rocked the dual floppy systems, usually a 3.5" and 5.25"
@@nuanil I must have had a newer version of the game. The instructions suggestsd playing from the hard drive to save the disks. It even showed how to do it. CD/STARFLT/INSTALL.
Best space flight game in 80s for sure
Spent hours on this game. Tandelolvian Happy Juice was the market to be in...
ATTENTION ALL STARFLIGHT FANS:
Official SF3 Sequel from Greg Johnson being made in 2018! Sadly it didn’t get crowd funded due to lack of media attention however they will try again later. To stay up to date come join the SF3 fan FB group or the official SF3 Discord channel:
facebook.com/groups/starflight3/
discord.gg/qsGB7zf
These groups can also keep you up to date on a new SF1 HD fan remake being made in 2018. Demo vid here:
th-cam.com/video/GA8aMQeT-o8/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for this video, was looking all over trying to remember what this game was called
Dear God does this bring back memories!
Just like the games on the Commodore Vic-20.
First game that captured me in my pre-teens.
This game was just outstanding to all this s..t at its time!
Back when EA made & delivered a very good game quality
Well, back then they were EOA, ElectrOnic Arts Corp.
Now they are EA
Earn Aureum With Loot Boxes..
This game is still unsurpassed. Modern game developers try to create the thrill of open-ended space exploration using procedural generation, but, in reality, this just results in a universe where all your choices are arbitrary. Any star system you visit, any landing site you choose, will simply show you a different combination of the same stock elements until you eventually become bored by the repetition. There's a degree of novelty, but nothing to truly *discover*. Hence, the focus shifts from exploration to base building, fleet construction, etc.
Starflight was filed with unique elements, many of which (e.g., the Mysterion message) had nothing to do with the main storyline. The game developers simply wanted to keep you wondering. They wanted you to feel that, even after you'd "won" the game, there remained deeper mysteries still to be uncovered.
As a side note, I was recently trying out Spacebourne 2, and while it appears to suffer from the aforementioned limitations of procedural space exploration, I was elated to discover that your home planet is named "Arth."
Agreed, the little things you found, messages, comments on the history, were amazing. From the profound to the hilarious.
In many ways, a game that still rings deep, against even today's titles. The deal of the storyline was amazing.
No Man's Sky 30 years before No Man's Sky
Holy crap, this is bringing back memories!
They need to make this where it will work with Windows 10.
I believe it will, if you run it under an emulator
dosbox
Awesome game! Just downloaded it again.
ahhhh This and Kings Quest on a Tandy 1000 SX witha 4.77 MHZ processor and a massive 20 Megabyte HD
Not sure if you people know this, I did it. You could go and edit the executable file and change the hard coded parameters, such as the prices, starting money, etc. and just save it. I gave myself lots of initial money, reduced the parameters for training, etc. The only thing you had to watch out for was not changing the length of the hard coded string, else all the addressing locations change. So you wouldn't go change a 99 to a 999.
Boo. Cheater.
@@MediaFilter PS - I have been waiting for 20 years for them to finish SF 3. Looks like it will never get finished according to the website updates. There was some crowdfunder in 2018, the last I heard and some investing PR. Too bad.
@@MediaFilter I could still run SF 1/2 on Windows 8. I have all those disks still. havent tried it under Win 10. I lost my map for SF 2, but found it again stashed away with some old Star Trek stuff. I still have my old PS2 with SF installed (among other things), just in case.
@@MediaFilter The only game I played after that, that was any good (in my mind) was Descent 3. I was addicted to SF and blew throught it in 2 weeks with little sleep. Descent 3 about the same.
@@XMIR10C what platform would I need to play SF today? I'm sure it's available on an emulator of some kind?
Starfield Copied this and I CANNOT WAIT
Hoooooooooooooooly hell. This game taught me what "red herring" meant. I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to pick that stupid thing up. Embarrassing even for an 11 year old.
50.1 cubic meters
I sure had played this a lot, if knew it existed..
YESSS! No mans sky for my pc!
I'm still waiting for the movie to come out.
Imagine a modern game built like that. The closest I can think of is Starbound
There was a game in the late 80s/early 90's where you could fly around planets and fly through planets. Anyone remember the name of the game? I think "star" was in the title, not sure though. it might have been for the Amiga.
I think it was Starglider 2 by Argonaut Games, one of the first games to feature 3D filled in vector graphics with curves !. If it's not that game then it could me Damocles (mercenary 2) by Novagen. Then I think there was Elite 2 or was it Elite 3 that allowed you to land on planets maybe I cannot remember.
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Endurium was a sentient species. The irony was that when you completed the game s main mystery - it gave you almost endless amount of fuel to explore!I played this on a IBM PCJR with 512Kb of memory, one each of 3.5 and 5.2" drives and no hard drive - I think.
I have it on several computers but dont know how to control it alt x and ctlx are not doing it
Best game, ever.
Onde of the best games ever
I love this game I keep trying to find it but I keep getting the wrong version
So, dwarf fortress adventure mode in space?
Yo Thriftwood! So dang cool to see this game again. Sub'd!! I was wondering if I could use some of your footage for a video essay I'm doing? I'd of course credit you fully, putting your name on screen during your clip + your name in the credits with your channel tagged. Let me know!! Cheers!!
This can NOT be the correct aspect ratio, no wide screens in 80s
I have no information about how to navigate around and do things, all the papers that came with the discs are gone
Austin Wall use the number keys bottom right on the keyboard to navigate. Enter key to choose action (stop start, change crew members etc.) During battle, spacebar fires weapons. I wish I could play it again. I threw it away after I ruined my PC.
You can find dos version and all documentation here:
www.abandonwaredos.com/abandonware-game.php?abandonware=Starflight&gid=1444
@@Chilliam13 you can buy em from Origin
Better than No Man's Sky
yes better than no man's sky, much better.
Not any more, but Starflight is indeed great too.
Really hope Star Citizen would be the great spiritual successor to this !!!
Basically, this is what E.T wish to succeed but was eagerly rushed and failed. In other words, ET got screwed up by Atari. Starflight was/is everything E.T. wasn't/isn't and a much much better ambitious sci-fi game we needed, given E.T was a mess
PC > Genesis
Yeah
woody lol!