Can you remember the name of this 2D Windows spaceship game from a decade ago?

Transhuman Plus · Jul 28, 2012

I've recently tried to recall an old spaceship/starship game for the PC myself. I believe it was a shareware deal, but there was a full version as well. I will do my best to piece together some of the things I remember.

The demo limited the styles of ships you could be, but I do recall your ship flying in from the bottom of the screen up close to the top and back down to land on a pad below where a female computer would talk to you briefly before you set out.

Once set out you flew around much like the style of Asteroids, in which you could in fact destroy asteroids, but you also collected gas tanks and actual icons for programs you had on your computer. So, much like the icons sitting on your desktop, except they'd be floating around in space for you to collect as a sort of "currency." If you shot at them, they'd begin to crack or be destroyed if too much damage was done to them.

There were other NPC space ships that would fly around and request help to kill asteroids and such, stating "I could use some help!" or contrary, "Hey, watch it!" if you shot at them. All the way to "I'm gonna get you!" if you harassed them too much. These were all vocal responses. Sometimes police ships would come out if you killed too many NPC players. I remember one being called "The Enforcer"

You could also access an upgrade station, granted I forget how, where your ship would land on a platform while you selected weapons and such from a list that cost money. You could even go into debt if you bought too much. Here you could also repair your ship if you took too much damage. When taking too much damage, you lost the left side of your ship, I.E. a wing, then the other side, sort of leaving you with this small center section.

I don't know if this enough information to help, but for the life of me I cannot remember the name nor can I find it on the net through the tidbits of info I have. Hopefully one of the minds out in the digital world can help me out on this.

Thank you kindly!
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I've spent the last 2 hours trying to find the name of this game, and I can't remember any more than the guy I quoted can about it, nor is it possible to find using google. I distinctly remember this game being awesome as a kid, so if you can think of the name, or even remember playing the game and have additional details, post them here. It's driving me mad.

rusty eagle · Jul 28, 2012

Reddit it.

Xun · Jul 28, 2012

Are you talking about Subspace?

Titmar · Jul 28, 2012

there was a similar-ish game called escape velocity that i loved dearly,
but i dont think that is what you mean

FrozenGoathead · Jul 28, 2012

I was thinking Captain Bumper, but that is probably not it.

Meltyourtv · Jul 28, 2012

Raiden?

Transhuman Plus · Jul 28, 2012

Operation: Inner Space: Voyage of the HMS Turtle - YouTube

Found it. Still looks pretty enjoyable for 18 years old.

xSharpshooter94 · Jul 29, 2012

gunna lock this, open up a discussion thread for old games if you wanna talk about this.

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