Starglider II was very impressive at the time - I was wowed by seeing it on my friend's Atari ST. You could fly around a solar system and through a network of t

Starglider II was very impressive at the time - I was wowed by seeing it on my friend's Atari ST. You could fly around a solar system and through a network of tunnels inside the planets, refuel yourself by flying along power lines, shoot lots of baddies and even see space whales! It also felt extremely fluid. It was interesting in that there was a proper mission beyond killing everything. Starglider I was also a lot of fun on my Amstrad 8 bit machine, although the graphics were wireframe.