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Stargunner - (1996 game) box art

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(on Wikipedia)
(on Steam)
https://www.mobygames.com/game/922/stargunner/
was https://3drealms.com/catalog/stargunner_45/

A side-scrolling ship-shooter with upgrades.

While pretty neat, it's unforgiving and a bit annoying.

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Stellaris - (2016 game) cover

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(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/281990/
https://www.paradoxplaza.com/stellaris/STST01G-MASTER.html

Build and expand a space-faring race who learns they are not alone in the universe.

Master of Orion - (1993 game) but with updated graphics and a confusing interface. I expect would have loved this in the past, but now it's just awkward. I'll still tag this as 'liked', as it's pretty good. It's very hard in the eyes. Take a lot of breaks.

Extremely stupidly hard.. and confusing. I'm shelving it. I only paid $12 USD for it, so it's not a big loss.. still, I wish the UI was better and the tutorial was better and the gameplay was better..



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Master of Orion II - Battle at Antares - (1996 game) image

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(on Wikipedia)

This is a generally crappy game. Several elements of gameplay are annoying, or take too many clicks or whatever. Sigh.

  1. Master of Orion - (1993 game)
  2. Master of Orion II - Battle at Antares - (1996 game)



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Star Control - (1990 game) DOS cover

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.mobygames.com/game/205/star-control/
https://forums.starcontrol.com/

A basic top-down shooter.