Stardust is a shoot-em-up computer game for the Amiga 500, released by the Finnish company Bloodhouse in 1993. The game is essentially an Asteroids clone with modern enhancements, such as power-ups, shields, a high-energy techno module soundtrack, vivid use of colours and the occasional tunnel section. The game's graphics drew critical acclaim for the aforementioned tunnels and the liberal use of ray-tracing. The company has since merged with Terramarque to form Housemarque. A fixed shooter game, also known as a 2-D shooter or shoot-em-up (shmup for short), is a video game where the player has limited control of their character and the focus is almost entirely on annihilation of their enemies. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... Missing image A500 The A500, also known as the Amiga 500, was the first low-end Commodore Amiga 16_bit multimedia home/personal computer model. ... Housemarque is a Finnish video game company founded in 1995. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Asteroids is a popular vector-based video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari. ... Power Up, the Professional Organization of Women in Entertainment Reaching Up is an organization with the stated mission to promote the visibility and integration of gay women in entertainment, the arts, and all forms of media. Power Up provided funding and assistance to the 2003 short film . ... // Modules Computer-generated music files. ... Graphics are visual presentations on some surface such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper or stone to inform, illustrate or entertain. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Housemarque is a Finnish video game company founded in 1995. ... Housemarque is a Finnish video game company founded in 1995. ...

In a not untypical bout of Finnish humour, the developers gave several things ludicrous names in their own language, which was (and still is) highly obscure in the international market. The damsel in distress is named after a brand of margarine, and the final confrontation takes place over the planet Imatra. A poster for The Perils of Pauline (1914). ... …Margarine is a generic term used to indicate any of a wide range of butter substitutes. ... Imatra is a town and municipality in eastern Finland, founded in 1948 around three industrial settlements near the Finnish-Russian border. ...

The game was also ported to the PC, but not by the original programmers. This version was buggy, scant on details found in the Amiga version and severely lacking in both control and gameplay polish. One of the first PCs from IBM - the IBM PC model 5150. ... A computer bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from working as intended, or produces an incorrect result. ... Gameplay includes all player experiences during the interaction with game systems, especially formal games. ...

A port for the Atari STE also exists. The Atari 520ST Atari 1040STF with SC1224 color monitor The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was commercially popular from 1985 to the early 1990s. ...

However, an extremely-well rewritten enhanced version was released three years later for the Amiga 1200, Amiga CD32 and finally for the PC platform as well. Named Super Stardust or Super Stardust '96, the game features a CD soundtrack from Slusnik Luna, FMV cut-scenes, high speed gameplay and completely new levels and enemies. The Amiga 1200, or A1200, was Commodore Internationals third-generation Amiga computer, aimed at the home market. ... The Amiga CD32 was a 32-bit CD-ROM based game console. ... One of the first PCs from IBM - the IBM PC model 5150. ... Screenshot of an FMV from Final Fantasy VIII. Full motion video, usually abbreviated as FMV, is a popular term for TV-quality movie or animation in a video game. ... A cut scene or cutscene is a sequence in a video game over which the player has no control. ...

External links

• http://housemarque.com/
• Dream17 Page for Super Stardust - Dream17 is a website dedicated to Team 17, who published Super Stardust for the Amiga and CD32.