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Starglider
Sign in to saveStarglider is a 3D video game published in 1986 by Rainbird. It was developed by Jez San under his company name Argonaut Software. The game is a fast-moving, first-person combat flight simulator, rendered with colourful wireframe vector graphics inspired by San's love of the 1983 Atari coin-op Star Wars.
Game data
- Released
- 1986-01-01
- User rating
- 0.00 / 5
- Platforms
- PC, Classic Macintosh, Apple II, Commodore / Amiga, Atari ST
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Starglider is a 3D video game released in 1986 by Rainbird. It was developed by Argonaut Software, led by programmer Jez San. The game was inspired by Jez San's love of the 1983 Atari coin-op Star Wars. It was followed in 1988 by a sequel, Starglider 2.
- Released
- 1986
- Genres
- Shooter, Simulator
- Platforms
- Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST/STE, Mac, DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Amstrad CPC
- Game modes
- Single player
- Developer
- Argonaut Software Ltd.
- Publisher
- Rainbird
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Publisher
- Telecomsoft
- Developer
- Argonaut Games
- Platform
- Amstrad CPC
- Game mode
- single-player video game
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- publication date
- 1986-01-01
- set in environment
- fictional planet
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Starglider is a 3D video game published in 1986 by Rainbird. It was developed by Jez San under his company name Argonaut Software. The game is a fast-moving, first-person combat flight simulator, rendered with colourful wireframe vector graphics inspired by San's love of the 1983 Atari coin-op Star Wars.
Starglider was originally developed for the 16-bit Amiga and Atari ST. Rainbird commissioned Realtime Games to produce 8-bit versions for the Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, and ZX Spectrum (128K, with a cut-down 48K version without sampled speech or special missions), and for the IBM PC compatible with CGA. Solid Image was commissioned to produce versions for the Commodore 64 and Apple IIGS.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Starglider” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.