Have You Played… Starflight?

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.

Before Mass Effect. Before Star Control 2. Slightly after Psi-5 Trading Company. Starflight was one of the original space games that didn’t just provide a universe, but filled it with with stuff worth seeing and doing. Mining. Combat. Diplomacy. Assembling the perfect crew to explore the universe, from some five different races of the eight available, and heading out to seek fortune and mysteries at the other end of the cosmos. Its Terrain Vehicle is essentially the start of the path that would lead to Mass Effect’s Mako. Though don’t hold that against it. Not too much, anyway.

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