I played this on the Amiga 500 way back in the day and naturally, since I was a young kid at the time, I was terrible. I would basically get hopelessly lost in the tunnels and get killed in minutes. There were some neat things in this game, like, being able to commit suicide by diving your ship into the sun, so it slowly melted around you and there was "Painting With Rolf", which was an art app within the game that let you mess around with all the 3D assets.
Thanks for bringing back this amazing game to my memory :) I played Star Glider 2 for maybe one or 2 years without knowing I could actually leave the first planet... I clearly remember the exact moment I accidentally discovered the existance of a whole world to explore. This defined my love for open worlds with a real sense of exploration. Got the same feeling playing Mercenary 2 Damocles and Daggerfall later on: suddenly discovering the incredible vastness of the world. For a kid like me, that was life defining moments ;) Thanks again, and love the great quality of all your videos :) You have lots of added value compared to many "lets players" or other reviewers.
Argonaut's attempts to produce a Starglider game on the SNES was so impressive Nintendo snapped them up to work on Star-Fox, the team designed the Super-FX chip. Miyamoto largely learnt to speak English through conversations with those guys. Incidentally Jez San also worked on the C64 version of Elite!
It was on the NES actually, they tried to do the SuperFX Chip for the NES, but Nintendo told them they have something special for them and invited them to develop for the SNES instead. Did not work out either for the Starglider version, but in the end they are the fathers of the SuperFX Chip and did StarFox with Nintendo just like you said.
Oh man, I remember this game so well. It was one of my favourite amiga games. Rainbird were an excellent software house. I also remember the original Starglider being on one of the Saturday morning kids shows (tiswas?) as a regular competition. If I remember rightly, it was a phone in competition and the player shouted out directions to someone offscreen who controlled the game. Ah, those crazy 80"s
Interesting fact about Starglider 2: Awsome music for this game (in 8 bit version provided as studio recording on bonus tape) was written by the same man as music for Frontier: Elite 2. Yes, it was Dave Lowe.
I always remember flying my planes off the deck and then switching to my walrus and watching it fly past, was such a novelty at the time. Absolutely fantastic!
Great video, thank you so much! I will always remember the Great Sound of the Star Drive engaging on the Amiga version. Such good memories of this game... And Carrier Command. 😁
Thanks for the flashback. This game was far ahead of its time, and conceptually and design-wise is still ahead of many space titles today. Defeating this game and getting the bomb built and launched (if I remember correctly) remains to me one of the biggest successes of my gaming life...
I loved this game! This was the last game I had on the spectrum +2 before it broke, so never it to finish it! Few months later I had an amiga. Awesome game.:(
Thanks Ant ! Incredible you know this game ! I played a lot on Starglider 1(wireframe) and remember that its sequel was a masterpiece of coding. It's incredible how much space games had evolved....
Wishlist for future flashbacks: Mercenaries/Damocles series (especially the second and third part may have some concepts that would fit for E:D too), Tau Ceti (yes, the C64 game) and a really forgotten gem: Hardwar!
My favourite opening of any Amiga Game was a game developed by Psygnosis called 'The Killing Game Show', The game it'self as I remember was a platform shoot em up, but I loved the opening sequence.
On the Amiga the music on that game was short but incredible forbidding. BTW the programmer went on to create a couple of the greatest space games ever with Independence War (IWar) 1&2
Oh yeah recently i was trying to list Amiga games that stood the test of time and probably deserved a modern remake, this is one of them (along with Interphase, Moonstone or Stunt Car Racer).
Cool! I remember being wowed by the original Starglider's singing intro on Atari ST :) Did you ever play Damocles? (follow up to Mercenary) Similar look, but essentially an adventure game where you had to investigate an abandoned solar system to avert a comet collision. Great game.
YES - in fact the original is why I bought an Atari ST - I was on the phone to a friend who had that playing in the background. Couldn't believe it when he said it was a game, sounded amazing. Bought one the next week.
I wasted heaps of time playing this in the early nineties. Ahh, the neutron bomb to blow up the space station at the end ... then you get to do it all over again from the start!
it's a shame nothing was done with those old games to modernize them for present times . The entire Hewson cosultants ( Andrew Braybrook of Paradroid fame ) catalogue is in the hands of some obscure German outfit who's just sitting on the copyright. By the way : back in those days you had loading music while the game was being started and that music was so good it was later performed by full size orchestras , Rob Hubbard ftw :) ua-cam.com/video/7IEqsHHbKkw/v-deo.html
The one key thing Starglider 2 got wrong was that it gave your main cannons a projectile speed that was absurdly slow, ruining the combat element of the game. The title still worked as a 3D adventure game of sorts, but the combat was a load of pants.
Did you ever play Warhead on the Amiga or ST? It was the only game of that era (and I think for a long time) that simulated real flight physics in space. It had a great story, too.
Didn't Starglider 1 feature on a Saturday morning kid's TV show as a competition? Or did I imagine this? I think it was the same show that had guests playing a version of Weird Dreams.
Hi the days, not old enough to remember the mid 80s the first game I remember was ‘warmonger, Civ and Frontier. I think that was when PC gaming started to find its feet. I left out doom really didn’t get into that. So question is Has Elite become so quiet? And did you manage to quiz anyone about the AI in gaming thing. Would be interesting to know if their going to play with it in Elite. As always loving the videos Mr Ant keep em coming. 👍
Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula was also superb. You got this huge starmap to explore, lots of strange lifeforms, exploring planet surfaces with vehicles etc. Totally underrated game that should be remade.
Noticed a couple of people mention Warhead in the comments, so I thought I would make a comment in that regard. Glyn Williams was both the developer and musician (the awesome music while short, is so forbidding) And this led to making two of the best Space games ever Independence War (IWar) 1&2. For those that played Warhead you can see and feel the similarities.
Starglider 2 on my brother's Amiga looked fab! We were rubbish at it, but it was a really fun game all the same. Played SG1 at work (naughty) then on my first PC. SG1s smooth wireframe graphics scratched that itch Elite on my BBC had given me (after I finally sold my Beeb, like the skint sandwich year student that wanted a PC that I was. Still miss that Beeb, as faulty as it was...apologies to the bloke who bought it in '89!)
I did own the atari st version of starglider and starglider did not contain both the amiga and the atari version. Amiga had different format on there floppys while st did have the PC standard format. At the bottom on the box you could see what version the box did contain....
The memories! Great game which I played over and over on my trusty A500 (and later my A2000, which I still have, although I nowadays run WinAUE on my PC). Good times!
I played this on the Amiga 500 way back in the day and naturally, since I was a young kid at the time, I was terrible. I would basically get hopelessly lost in the tunnels and get killed in minutes. There were some neat things in this game, like, being able to commit suicide by diving your ship into the sun, so it slowly melted around you and there was "Painting With Rolf", which was an art app within the game that let you mess around with all the 3D assets.
Thanks for bringing back this amazing game to my memory :)
I played Star Glider 2 for maybe one or 2 years without knowing I could actually leave the first planet... I clearly remember the exact moment I accidentally discovered the existance of a whole world to explore. This defined my love for open worlds with a real sense of exploration. Got the same feeling playing Mercenary 2 Damocles and Daggerfall later on: suddenly discovering the incredible vastness of the world. For a kid like me, that was life defining moments ;)
Thanks again, and love the great quality of all your videos :) You have lots of added value compared to many "lets players" or other reviewers.
Damocles. Wow. With you.
Not forgotten by those of us that played it! One of the best space sims ever made in my opinion.
Argonaut's attempts to produce a Starglider game on the SNES was so impressive Nintendo snapped them up to work on Star-Fox, the team designed the Super-FX chip. Miyamoto largely learnt to speak English through conversations with those guys. Incidentally Jez San also worked on the C64 version of Elite!
It was on the NES actually, they tried to do the SuperFX Chip for the NES, but Nintendo told them they have something special for them and invited them to develop for the SNES instead.
Did not work out either for the Starglider version, but in the end they are the fathers of the SuperFX Chip and did StarFox with Nintendo just like you said.
I remember to play that music in loop in my walk-man as I was falling a sleep when I was 10 years old... Great time!
Oh man, I remember this game so well. It was one of my favourite amiga games. Rainbird were an excellent software house. I also remember the original Starglider being on one of the Saturday morning kids shows (tiswas?) as a regular competition. If I remember rightly, it was a phone in competition and the player shouted out directions to someone offscreen who controlled the game. Ah, those crazy 80"s
Dave Poole I remember what you're referring to (Tiswas or Noel Edmond's Swap Shop?) - that was about six years before the Commodore Amiga 500.
Interesting fact about Starglider 2: Awsome music for this game (in 8 bit version provided as studio recording on bonus tape) was written by the same man as music for Frontier: Elite 2. Yes, it was Dave Lowe.
I loved this and Carrier Command! Classic machine, the Commodore Amiga 500.
Carrier command was awesome as well!
There was a remake of Carrier Command a few years back, sadly it was done poorly and only made me want to play the original again.
So I've heard!
I always remember flying my planes off the deck and then switching to my walrus and watching it fly past, was such a novelty at the time. Absolutely fantastic!
3 of my favorite space games from the 80's, starglider 2, elite and darkside
Great video, thank you so much!
I will always remember the Great Sound of the Star Drive engaging on the Amiga version. Such good memories of this game... And Carrier Command. 😁
Don't forget you needed the novel as you needed to input a random chosen word to get past the games anti pirate security.
Reminds me of Frontier Elite 2, it also came with a novella, a pretty decent read too, and it had the old school copy protection too.
I loved those game novellas, they drew me to proper sci-fi books
Thanks for the flashback. This game was far ahead of its time, and conceptually and design-wise is still ahead of many space titles today. Defeating this game and getting the bomb built and launched (if I remember correctly) remains to me one of the biggest successes of my gaming life...
I had this on my Amiga 500 back in the day, and I cant believe I actually forgot it existed. Thank you for refreshing my memory.
i remember this game, played it so much back in the day.
Man, back when video game packages were awesome and came with wonderful feelies...
Looks great, wish I'd played this back in the day!
I loved this game! This was the last game I had on the spectrum +2 before it broke, so never it to finish it! Few months later I had an amiga. Awesome game.:(
Thanks Ant ! Incredible you know this game ! I played a lot on Starglider 1(wireframe) and remember that its sequel was a masterpiece of coding. It's incredible how much space games had evolved....
Wishlist for future flashbacks: Mercenaries/Damocles series (especially the second and third part may have some concepts that would fit for E:D too), Tau Ceti (yes, the C64 game) and a really forgotten gem: Hardwar!
My favourite opening of any Amiga Game was a game developed by Psygnosis called 'The Killing Game Show', The game it'self as I remember was a platform shoot em up, but I loved the opening sequence.
Jez San and the crew at Argonaut were so far ahead of the pack. No wonder they went on to excel at both hardware and software.
Jez San and the team are now developing a crytpo currency coin called Funfair
Thank you for that information...
Loved this game - needs a remake like what recently happened to Carrier Command!
Awesome game! The space game I miss the most was Epic (Amiga & 286 PC).
loved this game! If you flew too close to the sun, your cockpit view would melt - great effect (and game over!)
Awww man, I sure do miss game manuals
Loved this game. played it so much on my amiga. Take space whales and drop them off in tunnels. Slingshot the sun. LOVE IT!
I have it along with my beautiful Amiga. And perfect working condition too😊
Great game but Warhead actually stuck with me over time. Excellent game.
On the Amiga the music on that game was short but incredible forbidding. BTW the programmer went on to create a couple of the greatest space games ever with Independence War (IWar) 1&2
I can see where Terminal Velocity got the inspiration for the tunnel segments.
Had this on the ST. Loved the novelle. Heads will roll!!! 😀
Would you be up for doing a stream or two playing this? I would totally sit down and watch ya play through it.
Good grief, I hadn't thought about that game in 30 years... On the Amiga too, the only girlfriend I miss. ;-)
David Murphy in my hometown we had a specific Amiga users group.
No machine like the Amiga.
David Murphy I still have it☺️
Jose A. Ramos indeed. It was the king back then. In my opinion at least☺️
Me too, don't have my A500 there, but still got the A1200. Didn't play this though if I'm honest.
Oh yeah recently i was trying to list Amiga games that stood the test of time and probably deserved a modern remake, this is one of them (along with Interphase, Moonstone or Stunt Car Racer).
I loved that game. I remember how mad I got when one of the passengers ate the Castronbars I needed for a quest. :D
Starglider II was a great game, but Mercenary and Its sequels did planetary landings and enterable building and more, years before this.
There was 3 space games i played in the 80s, darkside, elite and both starglider games
i allso did it on amiga 500 , what a great game on great machine
Very cool, never heard of this title. Would have loved it at the time though I am sure!
read the novella, was a great short story, quite funny in some parts.
I miss boxed games with nice booklets soooo much... My first was Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance...Came with a huge box and a great, immersive handbook :)
I loved this game, the music was great too
omg, I spent so many time on that game !! It was Elite before Elite :D
Stunning game. My Imperial Courier is called Starglider II 😎
I have anaconda named STAR GLIDER II
My DBX is called starglider
I played this game on amiga500 a lot! Sounds were really great. Just check out amiga version, it had proper sounds! See Starglider 2 - Longplay
Yep, played it too young, couldn't get AnyWhere... Still loved the box art (and novella)
Cool! I remember being wowed by the original Starglider's singing intro on Atari ST :) Did you ever play Damocles? (follow up to Mercenary) Similar look, but essentially an adventure game where you had to investigate an abandoned solar system to avert a comet collision. Great game.
YES - in fact the original is why I bought an Atari ST - I was on the phone to a friend who had that playing in the background. Couldn't believe it when he said it was a game, sounded amazing. Bought one the next week.
Staaaaaaar Gliderrrrr! From Rainbird....
I wasted heaps of time playing this in the early nineties. Ahh, the neutron bomb to blow up the space station at the end ... then you get to do it all over again from the start!
it's a shame nothing was done with those old games to modernize them for present times . The entire Hewson cosultants ( Andrew Braybrook of Paradroid fame ) catalogue is in the hands of some obscure German outfit who's just sitting on the copyright. By the way : back in those days you had loading music while the game was being started and that music was so good it was later performed by full size orchestras , Rob Hubbard ftw :)
ua-cam.com/video/7IEqsHHbKkw/v-deo.html
memories...
The one key thing Starglider 2 got wrong was that it gave your main cannons a projectile speed that was absurdly slow, ruining the combat element of the game. The title still worked as a 3D adventure game of sorts, but the combat was a load of pants.
Should do a video on the Fuel Rats and their station that was UA bombed
My favorite game ever!!!! Incidentally, my sig pic on Frontier forums
I played this to death on the Atari ST. Really good game, but it was no Frontier: Elite II.
I LOVED WARHEAD!
All the nostalgia!
Did you ever play Warhead on the Amiga or ST? It was the only game of that era (and I think for a long time) that simulated real flight physics in space. It had a great story, too.
The Berserker fight was a classic moment!
Didn't Starglider 1 feature on a Saturday morning kid's TV show as a competition? Or did I imagine this? I think it was the same show that had guests playing a version of Weird Dreams.
You are not misremembering. The original Starglider and Weird Dreams were both on Motormouth, presented by Neil Buchanan (among others)
Hi the days, not old enough to remember the mid 80s the first game I remember was ‘warmonger, Civ and Frontier. I think that was when PC gaming started to find its feet. I left out doom really didn’t get into that. So question is Has Elite become so quiet? And did you manage to quiz anyone about the AI in gaming thing. Would be interesting to know if their going to play with it in Elite.
As always loving the videos Mr Ant keep em coming. 👍
They were going to have a version on the Konix. Would have loved to se that.
Please do one on Starglider 1
Yum yum! Castro bars!
Anyone remember starcontrol 2 ??
This is the one with space whales, isn't it?! Why can't Elite: Dangerous have space whales?
NICE :)
ahhh its 16bit nomansky...
What I dislike about this video is the way you tried to sound objective. I have no idea if you even played it or liked it.
hi, i drunk, 4 pints on empty stomach for 24h jajaja yeeesh i so funny haha and like space whales hi ok im off bye :D
Planetary Landings?! In a space game??? What is this? ;)
It's rumoured that Bethesda are going to announce Starfield at E3. If true, will be looking forward to that one.
I still have my copys of star glider for my zx speccy lol
Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula was also superb. You got this huge starmap to explore, lots of strange lifeforms, exploring planet surfaces with vehicles etc. Totally underrated game that should be remade.
My fave classic game as well. I still have the starflt 1 and starflt 2 disks :) the sequel was fantastic.
I loved this game back in the days on my Atari ST. :-)
Noticed a couple of people mention Warhead in the comments, so I thought I would make a comment in that regard.
Glyn Williams was both the developer and musician (the awesome music while short, is so forbidding) And this led to making two of the best Space games ever Independence War (IWar) 1&2. For those that played Warhead you can see and feel the similarities.
Starglider 2 on my brother's Amiga looked fab! We were rubbish at it, but it was a really fun game all the same. Played SG1 at work (naughty) then on my first PC. SG1s smooth wireframe graphics scratched that itch Elite on my BBC had given me (after I finally sold my Beeb, like the skint sandwich year student that wanted a PC that I was. Still miss that Beeb, as faulty as it was...apologies to the bloke who bought it in '89!)
I remember playing this.
I did own the atari st version of starglider and starglider did not contain both the amiga and the atari version. Amiga had different format on there floppys while st did have the PC standard format. At the bottom on the box you could see what version the box did contain....
I played this game for many hours growing up
Also this game is why I love space games and especially ED. Still faster loading times than ED :D Yes less complex but still!
One of the view games I didn't pirate back then.
Thnx for the flashback.
Remember the game Echelon? Came out about the same time. Good box design. I got it because I thought it would be like Elite, but it was not as good.
Any chance of a flashback on Sundog: Frozen Legacy by FTL games?
Yep this was a great game. Always loved the space whales :) Played them on my Amiga way back then.
what I remember the most is James Follett 's novel.
It was so fun.
The memories! Great game which I played over and over on my trusty A500 (and later my A2000, which I still have, although I nowadays run WinAUE on my PC). Good times!
I had that game for the PC. ☺
Ah, memories...
How i loved this game... Thanks for bringin it back to my mind :)
Did you steal Ashens' sofa?!
REMAKE!