Starfire at 40 - The 2nd Virgin Game
Hi everyone. My first blog from 2 years ago was about the first game released by Virgin Games back in 1983. Seeing that it's now 40 years later, it seemed appropriate to follow it up with the second game released by Virgin Games. Starfire, for the Spectrum 48K, was released at the same time as Yomp along with 2 other games. They were Sheepwalk, a sheep herding game where you control a sheepdog, and Golf, which is, well, a game of golf. All games were released for the Spectrum 48K, although Yomp and Golf could be played on a 16K machine. Starfire's catalogue number is VGA1002, which is why I'm classing it as the 2nd game released. Over the next few years, the catalogue numbers continued to be used, until about 1987/88, which seems to coincide with Virgin Games purchase of Mastertronic. The concept of the catalogue numbers is relatively straightforward. They all start VG. The letter after this would indicate the price category of the game. The VGA games were all priced at £7.