Star Control 3

The game of intergalactic conquest and incessant dogfighting racks up its third instalment. This time the action is viewed in SuperVGA-o-Scope instead of Block-a-Vision, but apart from that it's more or less business as usual. Except that there are loads more expensive spacefaring vehicles to blow up and things. This demonstration will let you pootle around in one-player mode for a little while - those in the know will just bypass that bit completely and leap headfirst into the bitchin' two-player HyperMelee game instead - because it's the dog's atlaspheres.

In the full version you get 25 ships to choose from. Here there are only seven, but it's more than enough to get started with. Pay special attention to each craft's special weapon, and do try to avoid colliding with the planets, since it isn't polite to wipe out entire civilisations in the blink of an eye.