Starflight 3 (Star Trek like game series)
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 6:56 am
Showing my age but are there any 80s/90s Starflight fans here?
Growing up with Star Trek I dreamed of a game where I could command a starship exploring a huge galaxy encountering aliens and landing on strange worlds. Starflight was the first ever game that granted that wish (before all the good Trek games finally came along) as it had hundreds of different planets to explore and lots of strange aliens to either battle or trade with in space. Naturally I’d call my ship the ISS Enterprise and give all my customized crew members Trek names Eg the Captain would be Kirk, Science Spock, Engineer Scotty, Communication Uhura, Navigator Sulu and Doctor McCoy. Unfortunately I’d run out of positions after that, sorry Chekov haha! Although in the early game when it was too expensive to train up your crew you could use reasonably skilled androids in the roles so naturally they got called Data lol. I grew up playing the 90s SF1 remake on Sega Genesis but most people probably know the 80s PC & Amiga versions more. After SF2 the series had been dead for like 30yrs yet amazingly now in 2018 Greg Johnson is crowdfunding a new sequel. Greg was the creator and lead developer of the original Starflight games, and he also created the popular ToeJam & Earl console games too. So if any other 80s/90s Trekie kids used to channel their inner captain Kirk/Picard though Starflight like I did then I thought I’d let you know lol.
https://www.fig.co/campaigns/starflight-3
[BBvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJy-fZ-BJvY[/BBvideo]
Growing up with Star Trek I dreamed of a game where I could command a starship exploring a huge galaxy encountering aliens and landing on strange worlds. Starflight was the first ever game that granted that wish (before all the good Trek games finally came along) as it had hundreds of different planets to explore and lots of strange aliens to either battle or trade with in space. Naturally I’d call my ship the ISS Enterprise and give all my customized crew members Trek names Eg the Captain would be Kirk, Science Spock, Engineer Scotty, Communication Uhura, Navigator Sulu and Doctor McCoy. Unfortunately I’d run out of positions after that, sorry Chekov haha! Although in the early game when it was too expensive to train up your crew you could use reasonably skilled androids in the roles so naturally they got called Data lol. I grew up playing the 90s SF1 remake on Sega Genesis but most people probably know the 80s PC & Amiga versions more. After SF2 the series had been dead for like 30yrs yet amazingly now in 2018 Greg Johnson is crowdfunding a new sequel. Greg was the creator and lead developer of the original Starflight games, and he also created the popular ToeJam & Earl console games too. So if any other 80s/90s Trekie kids used to channel their inner captain Kirk/Picard though Starflight like I did then I thought I’d let you know lol.
https://www.fig.co/campaigns/starflight-3
[BBvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJy-fZ-BJvY[/BBvideo]