Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula is the 1989 sequel to the successful Starflight

Starflight

Starflight is a computer game published by Electronic Arts and developed by Binary Systems in 1986. Originally developed for DOS and Tandy, it was later released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh and Commodore 64...

science fiction

Science fiction

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 computer game. It was developed by Binary Systems, and published

Video game publisher

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 by Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...

, for DOS

MS-DOS

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.

Starflight 2 introduced many new features, including an interstellar trade-based game economy

Economy

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, a new combat

Combat

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 model, and dozens of alien

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 species

Species

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, scattered across an even larger game map.

Starflight 2 was ported to the Amiga

Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities...

 and Apple Macintosh platforms by MicroMagic, Inc. in 1991.

One unofficial sequel to the series, Protostar

Protostar: War on the Frontier

Protostar: War on the Frontier is a 1993 science fiction space combat and role-playing game that was produced by Tsunami Media. It is the unofficial sequel to Starflight and Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula....

, was created in 1993.

Reception

The game was reviewed in 1991 in Dragon

Dragon (magazine)

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#165 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 3 out of 5 stars.

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