Starglider

Very much a weakness on the 64, vector graphics games are better on the other 8 bit Micros as this rather limp effort shows. A 3D Shooter thats just about playable but so much better on the Speccy.

Dreadful. Yet another game where the C64 couldn't possibly deliver any proper realtime gameplay with vector graphics but they still tried anyway and obviously failed.

Never understood why Wong used Multicolor ["koala painter-mode"] graphics and not Hi-Res ["Doodle-mode"] on this game.

Would have made much more details in the graphics - if needed laid multicolor sprites on top for objects that needed multicolor. Still would be OK with just one color too, like spectrum. Could still use colors, but with certain strangeness where two objects of different colors interact; as colors would be same in 8x8 pixels, one character. This is often seen in Spectrum games. Not so much on C64.

And using a split screen so that the instrument panels could still be in multicolors. Those were OK (except the scanner could be in hires, using sprites for any overlays).

This would have made the game jump up +25% on the graphics, possibly on hookabillity too.

It had to be said...

I've never been a big fan of this kind of games but Starglider and later the Elite has always been somehow addictive.

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How do you British say this is brilliant game, wunderbar colours, amazing vector pictures and nice touches of the sound on a track. I play this game many time and think it is a good one with muchness of playability and a gameplay that stirs the blood in my veins like when I think of my mother country many leagues and many sunsets away.
This is brilliant game!

I'm a Commodore lover through and through but I have to admit that this was one of those fairly rare occasions where the Spectrum version was better, especially the vector graphics. They were blocky and undetailed on the C64.

Sure, it lacked speed and smooth screen update, yet it never felt all too disimilar from the AMGIA/ST-original (which weren't smooth either). I certainly never regretted playing 'Starglider' on the C64. In fact, it stood its ground arguably well, simply because it was, after all, possible to play that game, to progress and to enjoy the action.

I loved this one!

Played this one a lot. Very tough! I could never get past the white mothership (or whatever). It would shoot me down immediately and I could never figure out what I was supposed to do to kill it, which I assumed was the ultimate objective of the game. The docs weren't helpful on that point either, so I never won. Kinda frustrating.

The OK music and the pretty OK graphics doesn't compensate the fact that it is a poor game.

Sloooooowwwww vectors. Given the work involved in making anything in a vector style on the C64 bit map structure I guess it deserves brownie points for even trying... Nice missile cam sequence... I always liked that bit

Another classic

This is a good game I give it an8... Its just fun

I haven't played starglider on the C64. But check out starglider 2 on the Amiga =)... Immersive..