Frontier Elite style games

[Ian-uk]

Elite Frontier is one of my fav games, I was wondering if there are other amiga games with a simlar style space trading theme?

[lurkist]

It's full title is Elite 2:Frontier, so there is of course Elite (1).  Much more basic though.

If it's flying around that you like, try Star Crusader (no trading though, it's mission based)

Wing Commander (also mission based)

Nothing really comes close to the Frontier experience though.

[Angus]

A man after my own heart.  

Well....... short answer: Not really, but there are some pretty good attempts at it. A game by Origin called Space Rogue is definitely worth a look. I've recently reviewed it on the Amiga Games Database, and there is quite a detailed thread about the game on the comp.sys.amiga.games newsgroup.

Not trading, but space combat; Star Crusader is a great game, with an excellent patch by John Girvin, it features a great storyline and some excellent dogfighting - not to mention Stealth missions!

Star Glider 2 was pretty popular, although it never really clicked with me.

Damocles maybe?

Again, mission based and combat oriented is the fantastic Warhead. I'm re-writing a review of this at the moment and hopefully there'll be a thread in comp.sy.amiga.games shortly.

Hope that's some help.

[Ian-uk]

thanks for the help. i'll try and see if i can get hold of those games now. maybe i'll try ebay

[Angus]

Well Space Rogue is a legal download as you'll see in the c.s.a.games thread. It also has a new WHDLoad installer written by the very talented Jean-François Fabre, bless his cotton socks.  

I think Warhead maybe legal somewhere, I think I read Glyn Williams had given permission to some site - but don't quote me.

Did I mention how brilliant Warhead is?  

[Matt_H]

Escape Velocity for the Mac is sort of like a 2D overhead-view version of Frontier. It works nicely under ShapeShifter.

[Oli_hd]

FOFT?
Federation of free traders, its an old A500 game

[Angus]

FOFT:
and not without its little issues.