Do you remember the game Space Taxi on the Commodore C-64 ? In it you were playing a taxi driver in space who had to pick up passengers in space and avoid all kinds of obstacles along the way. Space Capstar II reminds me of that game although you are not picking up passengers but artifacts from the soil instead.
My name is Randolph. Randolph Clark Rodriguez. They call me “The Invincible Randy” on the space convoy circuit, but you can just call me Randy.
I roam the galaxy on my trusty ship, the Capstar II, fueled by dreams, passion, adventure, and the promise of cold, hard cash. My job is hard to explain, but in a nutshell, I’m a jack-of-all-trades who takes on any request under the suns. My latest task is to collect the rare mineral called Red Krypton from Point K9. I hear, though, that the last fellow sent to Point K9 never returned… Something tells me that there’s more to this mission than they’re letting on. Nevertheless, today finds me and my faithful Capstar II headed for the four planets that make up Point K9.
After all, it’s there I may find dreams, passion, adventure… and a sweet, sweet 40,000,000 Space Credits.
The game is entirely controlled with the mouse. A click with the left mouse-button accelerates the space pod into that directions and moving the mouse rotates the pod in that direction. The objective of each level is to pick up an artifact that will appear in the third stage of each level.
The space pod has limited fuel supplies and will leak food whenever you hit an object and hit the accelerate button. The levels obviously become a lot harder over time and you have to take the gravity direction into account as well. The gravity can be really frustrating at times because your pod is automatically sucked into that direction and you have to accelerate to move into other directions.
Space Capstar II is an interesting challenging game with nice graphics and gameplay. Great for a short break.
