I had my feelers out on Ebay for AGES looking for a complete boxed version of the EA classic
Starflight, which comes to us all the way back from 1986! Finally snagged one last month and took a dive into it yesterday. It was originally made on the PC and ported to the Amiga. It could have been light years ahead of its origins, but either way from what I've seen so far it's a really fun game.
Had they not been afraid of CBS coming down hard on them for copyright infringement, it's plainly obvious that this should have been named Star
fleet. The entire game design is heavily inspired by Star Trek: even your mission declaration says you are to "boldly go where no man has gone before" and to explore new worlds, etc.
I'm into it, and it's pretty relaxing, interesting and fun so far. From what I can tell this game was the inspiration for a ton of games that followed in the years to come (e.g.
Mass Effect). Pretty cool stuff.
Of course, I'm highly distracted by some hardware projects, but Starflight should get to at least share half of my attention of the next several days/weeks.