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SPACE TRADING GAMES

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:15 am
by Pinback
My interest is in Elite type game,which i have been collecting for a few years now.Now there are a number of good Elite/Frontier site,but this one is one of the best one.http://www.frontierastro.co.uk/ be sure to have a good look around it,as there is a lot info about the games there.In my travels across the net I found few link to old games,new games and some free gamesI have posted most of these on the Frontier forum,and I see Some games have there own thread here but have look through you my find something you like. :D also be sure to check the links in the sites listed below.commercial games,old and new.for the x games Build Trade be boredx1/x2/x3 http://www.egosoft.com/games/x3/info_en.phpDarkstar one http://www.darkstar-one.com/Space force http://www.spaceforce2.com/news2.aspxParkan2 http://www.parkan.ru/p2en/ Russian game where you can run around on the planet surfaceFreelancer http://www.microsoft.com/games/freelancer/ just the old link to the Microsoft site.Independence war 2 http://www.i-war2.com/Space ranger 2 http://www.spacerangers2.com/Eve http://www.eve-online.com/Jumpgate http://www.netdevil.com/Precursors http://www.precursors-game.com/eng/ it the most interesting game to come alone in years.Space Trader: http://www.playspacetrader.com/ Internet game with no spaceship combat,but has a bolt on f.p.s for some multplayer action.Starfury: http://www.malfador.com/ from the makers of space empire games,The game came out in 2003 and its a interesting sort of mission based elite clone with a couple of very odd features in that you cannot move the ship in vertical plane and if you want to turn around you have to come to a complete stop first.Move the ship around then accelerate in the new direction.Galaxy on fire: http://www.galaxy-on-fire.com/eng/index.html this a mobile phone game,look like a fun game has anyone played it?Vendetta http://www.vendetta-online.com/Terminus: http://vvisions.logical.net/terminus/index.html brilliant game heavily infuelance by babylon 5 in look and feel.must play this one through one day.Hardwar: http://zedo.hardwar.org.uk/ great fan site for hardwar,must finish playing this game one day.Lightspeed/hyperspeed games: http://www.planetmic.com/orbit/hyperspd/hspd01.htm fan site for the little known lightspeed games.Elite starfighter: http://www.elite-starfighter.de/ German remake of elite.Starflight: http://www.starflt.com/ great fan site for the old starflight games and the remakes.Sundog: http://www.lukin.com/sundog/ released about 6 months before Elite fact fans.Battlecrusier 3000 http://www.3000ad.com/site/home/ the one and only Derek Smart and he at it agan.Starcontrol 2: http://starcontrol.classicgaming.gamespy.com/sc2/ another all time classic gameThe old Earth&Beyond game http://www.earthandbeyond.ca/ fan siteFREE GAMESOolite http://oolite.aegidian.org/ best elite remakeAd-astra http://www.a-astra.com/ This is the most frontier like game I ever seen and its free.Space merchants conquerors http://www.dataweb.sk/projektsm/index.htm can't get it to work on vista works xp bit like freelancerVegastrike http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/Privateer gemini gold http://priv.solsector.net/Deepspace:[url]http://www.jblythe.f9.co.uk/Deepspace/deepspace.html[/url] a nice looking elite remake.Epochstar:[url]http://www.epochstar.com/[/url] this one has a game to download a 2d alike elite game.Starfight: http://www.jpproduction.fi/news/ Starfight 4 Gatekeepers is a strange mix of Elite and point and click adventure game.Infinty http://www.infinity-universe.com/Inf...page&Itemid=26Outspace: http://www.outerspacecrew.net/ Another remake of Starflight.Transcendence: http://www.neurohack.com/transcendence/ A fun 2d Elite gameSignum: http://www.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~hrinv2am/signum/ Very much like freelancer. press esc to get out of the strange 2d intro to the game.Elite AGB: http://www.geocities.com/quirky_2k1/...tea/index.html For the advance game boy.Mission Elite: The Battle for Birera: http://www.geocities.com/abaraba1/index.htm a remake of a remake of Elite.INDIE games.evochron rengades http://starwraith3dgames.home.att.net/go.htm the only other frontier like game.Flatspace http://www.lostinflatspace.com/ Taikodom: http://www.taikodom.com/ some sort of mmog space trading gameBlackprophecy: http://www.blackprophecy.com/ new mmogThe universe: http://theuniversal.net/ ?Jack of All Trades: http://www.dingogames.com/jack/Smugglers 3: http://www.smugglers-3.com-http.com/ZSX3: http://zsx3.skasoftware.com/about.htm Ninja,Zombies and Elite.What more could you want?.starquest online http://www.castlethornsoftware.com/sq.html bit of slooow loader,but stick with it.As it has some interesting features ,any one played it?.

RE: SPACE TRADING GAMES

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:37 am
by sscadmin
I have most of these in the links area but I will update my list with some of the ones you have compiled here. Great list!

RE: SPACE TRADING GAMES

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:25 pm
by Pinback
Oops just realized my editing on the first post did not work, the elite agb is a dead link, but both Deepspace and Epochstar do work.Deepspace: http://www.jblythe.f9.co.uk/Deepspace/deepspace.html a nice looking elite remake.Epochstar: http://www.epochstar.com/ this one has a game to download a 2d alike elite game.couple of other links I forgot abouthttp://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/ev/ for the Escape Velocity/Ev Nova gameshttp://www.positech.co.uk/starshiptycoon/ for Starship Tycoonhttp://www.silvae.net/sundog/index.htm for the Sundog Resurrected site.I must download this and see if it works?.

RE: SPACE TRADING GAMES

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:23 am
by Guest
Wow. Nice list I didn't even know about some of these, guess I will be doing some surfing today at work :lol:

RE: SPACE TRADING GAMES

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:03 am
by Pinback
Hi SolnicarisThere are still a lot more of these games out there that have no web/fan site :D

RE: SPACE TRADING GAMES

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:13 pm
by sscadmin
That's the tough part is finding them :) But it is sometimes quite fun trying to track down some of these games. You can always play this while surfing the net to set the mood.. http://www.moviewavs.com/php/sounds/?id=bst&media=MP3S&type=Movies&movie=Mission_Impossible&quote=theme1.txt&file=theme1.mp3Oh PINBACK added some of your links to the list I will add more later...

RE: SPACE TRADING GAMES

Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:18 am
by Pinback
That's a good one Darkone. :lol: You also become good in "ye ancient and noble art of Googling". :lol: