# Name of old Commodore 64 game?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [September 17, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-old-commodore-64-game/669054 "2013-09-17T15:13:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-old-commodore-64-game/669054/1 "2013-09-17T15:13:39Z")

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Back in the 80’s I had a Commodore 64 and a bunch of games for it. One game had the user traveling between different planets and stars, and I can’t remember the name of it. I don’t remember much about it, other than that the user was assigned various “missions” specifying which planets were to be visited. There wasn’t really an objective, other than exploration.

I can rule out [Elite;](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)) I had that too, and the game I’m thinking of was something different.

Pretty thin, I know, but is any of this ringing a bell with anyone? Anybody know the name of it?

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**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-old-commodore-64-game/669054/2 "2013-09-17T15:16:12Z")

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Bet it’s [Starflight](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight)

You can buy a copy of it (bundled with Starflight 2) for $6 at [GOG.com](http://www.gog.com/game/starflight_1_2) if you have a hankering to play it again.

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-old-commodore-64-game/669054/3 "2013-09-17T15:27:59Z")

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I loved _Starflight_. It was the last game I obsessed over doing things like making comprehensive lists of the enemies, goals, planets, landing locations etc. I realized about then that I could put that effort into something like programming and actually accomplish worthwhile goals while having just as much fun, and the next game I bought was Turbo C.

Never did get very far in _Starflight II_. It lets you play the same game for an hour before telling you the goals etc. are completely different. Lost interest.  
ETA: Well, the last game until _City of Heroes_, for which I wrote an 80-page reference to macros, keybinds, slash commands, emotes and other details that blew away every other reference on the net. Just as useless in the end, though.