What is Mission Starlight?

Fun space ship arcade game with great game music (but music very short about 7 seconds.) Attack enemy base on 5 planets and last enemy base in space. Very hard game, earn extra lives in easy stage or use ResEdit for cheat (change number bom and lives in Preference file).

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Mission Starlight, from Casady & Greene, harks back to traditional shoot-'em-up arcade games. You command a starfighter vaporizing foreign bodies and power plants on five different planets. Having successfully breached each planet's defenses and knocked out all power to the force field protecting the evil base station, you then challenge the evil leader, Adolf Blitter. Your weapons are the usual lasers and missiles, and your enemies are geometric shapes and — happily — smiley faces.

Sound familiar? OK, we’ve seen it all before, but although Mission Starlight makes no real advances in the Star Wars arcade genre, the game is presented well. The ship’s movements are responsive, the action is fast-paced, and the graphics are intriguing if not downright playful. Special credit goes to the creators for allowing us to hold down the assignable Fire key to get repeat action on the lasers. After all why damage your wrist if you have unlimited firepower?

Breen, Christopher. (October 1990). Welltris, Mission Starlight, Sky Shadow. MacUser. (pgs. 81-82).

Download Mission Starlight for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 6.0 up to Mac OS 7.6

Compatibility notes

Also can play with vMac Mini.

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II