Starglider 2 - Cancelled Commodore 64 conversion from 1988

Starglider 2 was an ambitious conversion attempt for the #Commodore64 by Myth developer Pete Baron. Performance was an issue, and the publisher backed out of the conversion. Thankfully remains of development and source code were saved:
gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/sta...

[@Emulous79]

I had this on the ST and remember sodding about with all the geometric shapes. You can see that the C64 just couldn't keep up with the technology at the time.

[@merman1974]

It's a brave and ambitious attempt - I can't help wondering if with modern development tools and cartridge solutions, there could have been a C64 version. Moonfall and Battle Command are examples, the latter with shaded polygons.

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

An extremely ambitious conversion and one which to be blunt, really shouldn't have been attempted. I poured hours into Starglider 2 on the Atari ST and always felt envious of Amiga owners with the sampled whale song. Turning the game into Wireframe 3D just turns it into something so much lesser again

[@Barcrest]

The c64 had elite and mercenary, it should have been able to do a paasable version of this.