Stargunner (PC DOS) 60FPS longplay
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- There are 33 levels. First (shareware) episode has 6 levels and rest of the episodes have 9 each. Stellar Assault episode was played on Captain difficulty and the rest on ensign (easiest). Touching walls kill almost instantly on harder difficulty settings and sicnce most secrets (powerups) are located near walls it's frustrating trying to catch most on harder difficulty levels. This game like Raptor and Tyrian has a savegame function, but here it can be used even inside levels. I used saves between levels.
My personal opinion: Very nice shooter from DOS era. Almost as good if not as good as Raptor. In many ways Stargunner is more advanced which is easy to comprehend when considering there was over two years between these two games. Especially I like the soundtrack in this game. Still, not as good as Tyrian. The powerup system looks nice at first, but later it becomes too simple. There are only two accessory weapon slots to be used at a time with the main weapon and most weapons are not very usefull. Even though some weapons give advantages in specific levels you can pretty much upgrade the ship with overall best weapons after first two or three levels in each episode. However, I believe I managed to demonstrate all weapons. Different engine and satellite setups take big part of the weapon select screen even though mostly one type of engine and satellite will be used. The game has lots of content, but still little too long in relation to content. For example some looping with asteroid fields and such.
This game is now freeware and can be downloaded from 3D realms website. The download info says it's 1.1 version, but it's actually 1.0. However, Do NOT install 1.1 patch. If you do, the game will freeze at aquatic combat mission 6 boss. I learnt this the hard way and had to start the last episode from the beginning. Savegames did't work with "downgraded" version. At the underwater levels most of the time half of the frames got dropped. I did tests before recording and the game seemed to run fine with about 20 000 cycles. With higher cycle settings intro + cutscenes would run way too fast.
Trivia 1: Was the final release to be released under the Apogee banner. Apogee was later renamed to 3D realms.
Trivia 2: "Most of the art was developed on the Amiga using Deluxe Paint. In fact, the game was originally supposed to be an Amiga game with a PC version supposed to follow, but the PC version soon overtook and led development, and sadly the Amiga version was eventually dropped". [3D realms website]
Timepoints are for shop screen at the beginning of each episode. Mission briefings and debrifiengs can be found between episodes plus a short cutscene at the end of each episode (except Scout Missions).
Episode 1: 00:03:20 Scout Mission
Episode 2: 00:28:02 Stellar Attack
Episode 3: 01:05:15 Terran Assault
Episode 4: 01:41:29 Aquatic Combat
Developer / Publisher: Apogee (1996)
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That was one heck of a 2 hour RUclips video gaming performance you've put together, especially when you've defeated all those bad bosses! Congratulations!😉👍😁
my tears when i heard the music ... i miss being child
OMG I finally found it!, I always had this memory popping up in my head that it was a space shooter with a boss what i thought was shaped like a star but i was wrong!, It was shaped like an X!, And now it's fully clear: Stargunner was the game i played when i was a kid!
Same! Just found out about it after 20 years lmao
Game of my childhood :)
When I was a child, I've learned a HACK.
During the first preparation phase, I used to SWAP the weapon side when I have just one. During the SWAP, the game first connects a new one, then disconnects the old one. But if you press PLAY before the game disconnects the old one, your spaceship go into battle with the 2 Weapons and you can use or sell then in the next preparation phase.
That soundtrack is so memorable!
Tank missiles were among the best weapons.👍 Wish nowadays games were like this.
Dang, I used to play this with my brothers and we only made it past like 3 bosses. That little melody you hear when you beat them is amazing though.
Loved this game back in the day :)
The best Apogee soundtrack!
Played the shareware version of it almost 22 years back.
The soundtrack makes me younger ,who else remember the F8 touch
I remember playing the demo of a PC Gamer disc.
A classic. At least it has Gog representation and is somewhat known, compared to Terrafire (Indeed, the entire Thrust genre is long dead and buried. And Terrfire was the best of class, imo.)
2019, Brasil - This game has an error in the store, you buy a weapon and put it on the top of the ship and then buy another weapon and put it in the bottom, then you press the "SWAP" to change the position and then the "UNDO" to undo the purchase, then you get the weapons and do not spend credits.
Ah, my childhoood..
Free on gog, going to give it a shot later :)
I’m pretty sure there was the shareware version of this included on the duke nukem 3d cd, used to play it to death 😆 and terminal velocity, and rise of the triad as well all included. Man the good old days 😂
Stargunner is on steam.... And it's free. I kid you not
I think MDK was included in that cd too.
Oh those games, where they just have to destroy the whole planet after you win =)
Funny the true last boss of the Zillion decided "why don't we make something similar to that pesky Stargunner shooting our buttsides down and see if we win a duplicate battle?!" well NOPE, that was a failure lol! XD
what a great looking shooter! on dos?!...nice.
Que da ora !!!
Que saudade!!!
born 1987 my child game^^
3:36 game starts here
omg it says enemy SHEILDS at boss fights :D: D
They may should have rendered the sprites without antialiasing, cause without alpha blending the edges of the sprites look like crap in front of a bright background. Otherwise very solid shmup.
Uh, something strange happened to voice samples, like "power" or "extra credits"
You can select male / female voice. Default male voice was selected for the last episode.
Sorry double post after 5 years, but ho does stating that "You just sold me the game" feel about such good flying? :)
Joguin animal!
James Storey passed away :(
God it would be just so great if someone would re-release this for switch or steam
Edit: it is on steam...... AND IT'S FREE
Cool. Does RUclips allow 60fps videos now? I should then re-record some of my gameplays!
They have goblins stargunner and many other classics to play online : playclassic.games
Thank youtube
What are the names of Episode 4's bosses, from first to last?
How did you get your ship to move as fast as it does?
I tried with both mouse cursor and keyboard, and it moves so goddamn slow it's practically impossible to avoid anything; despite the game running at 60fps.
From what I remember, the movement speed was NOT supposed to be as slow as it's moving. I tried both the one on steam, the one on gog, and the one in the 3d realms anthology and I get the same issue with all 3 games.
Game runs properly at normal speed so maybe it's not cycle issue. You could try to use set cycles. Go to for example GOG install folder and edit the config file there with notepad. Change the "cycle" value to 20000. You did notice you get engine power from store? Not sure if those two things are not the cause.
I guess it was the engine.
I thought this whole time something was wrong with my game hahaha.
Thank you!
UUUUUUUUUUUUURNTULL........
Can I get the setup still today ??
It's available for free in GOG dot com
Det der spil stargunner er det nok det fedeste spil jeg til dato har spillet det var kun en demo jeg havde og dels var det ik et spil der var til at købe nogle steder og da jeg endelig fået det bestilt og betalt det fra selve apogee var min pc for ny til at spille det prøvede alt fra patches og jeg var græde færdig og jeg tror at jeg ikke har glædet mig så meget som jeg gjorde da jeg stod med hele spillet i hånden og måtte kapitulere og se på at det nye vista og alt over ik kunne køre det jeg er på ingen måder nok computer nørd og jeg har ikke haft noget spil der gav mig det samme som stargunner gjorde så det er helt sikkert et spil der fortjener en re make mvh Michael
Is there for Android ?
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Spend more money!
I have a question. What is called this type of game? I looks for very silimar game.
Scrolling shooter. In this case side-scrolling shooter, but you may find similar games being vertical-scrolling if you travel up instead of to the right.
For spacecrafts and such, there's a sub-designation for the game genre as "Shmup"
Shoot em up, to be specific
did u found this game u searching for?