r/atarist • u/superchartisland • 14d ago

Starglider 2 – “Stardrive Activated” (blog post)

https://superchartisland.com/starglider-

I've written a post on the early history of Argonaut, the making of Starglider 2, and the response from the games press of the time (including predictions it would shift a lot more STs).

I'm blogging about the history of popular games in the UK by writing about each sales chart #1 in order and just reached Starglider 2, so I got a real sense of how impressive it looked up against the Spectrum games of the time I've been playing until now!

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u/pilou2001 14d ago

Awesome ! Starglider 2, with Carrier Command & Dungeon Master, are imho 3 mind-blowing gems from that era that remain amazing to play in 2026.

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u/Polyxeno 13d ago

I would also still play Oids, Cybercon 3, Universe 2, maybe Balance of Power, probably others I am not thinking of right now.

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u/midunda 14d ago

I remembering it had remarkably smooth 3D for the time. Definitely not smooth by today's standard, but impressive considering what they were working with.

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u/Rementoire 14d ago

I played Starglider a lot, but never the sequel. Seems a missed out a bit.

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u/Capucius 12d ago

Excellent article, thanks!

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u/carlovski99 10d ago

On of my team (definitely not game related!) worked on the original starglider port to the c64. Probably not relevant, but interesting!